As part of a tougher approach to immigration, the US administration is now asking federal prosecutors to pursue all undocumented immigrants illegally crossing the border into the US. In early May 2018, Jeff Sessions, the US Attorney General, announced this new « zero tolerance » policy, which also entails separating families. Adults will […]
Yearly Archives: 2018
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Despite Europe’s efforts to curb migration, tens of thousands of migrants and refugees continued to attempt the perilous journey across the Mediterranean during 2018. Many continued to die doing so. Sadly, drowning migrants and refugees seem to have just become part of what we expect to hear every time we […]
There is a general agreement among migration and development experts that (forced) migration needs to be treated from a holistic perspective. You can’t just close borders and send people back, you need to look at what is causing migration and address these root causes. When it comes to the migration […]
The worldwide internal displacement crisis is only getting worse. Over 30 million, that is the number of people who were forced to leave their homes around the world as a result of conflict and disasters last year. That’s roughly 80’000 people displaced every single day! This also represents almost a […]
While fewer migrants and refugees attempted the perilous journey to Europe in 2017, compared to 2016, those who did faced more dangers than ever says a new report from the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). It is believed that during 2017 an estimated 3’100 people died at sea while trying to reach […]
While the human rights situation in Sudan has hardly improved, with significant restrictions on the activities of opposition political parties and civil society organisations, the country remains a key partner of the European Union in its fight against migration across the Mediterranean, namely through the Khartoum process. This partnership, as […]