Migration
News and comment on migration to and from the developing world
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Chile’s Gaza sympathisers rally behind Palestinian football coloursClub Deportivo Palestino has become a focal point for tensions between Santiago’s sizeable Arab and Jewish communities
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UN investigates claims of Gulf state abuse of migrant workersUAE projects involving major western museums accused of treating foreign labourers as modern-day slaves
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Number of Eritreans seeking asylum in Europe increases threefold in a yearYoung people flee Eritrea as ‘open-ended’ national service, soaring food prices and poor job prospects bite, reports UNHCR
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Traffickers turn to teenagers to drive migrant boats across Mediterranean
Modern-day slavery in focus Traffickers turn to teenagers to drive migrant boats across Mediterranean
People smugglers in Egypt and Libya are escaping justice by using children to ferry migrants to Europe, leaving the youngsters to face jail and huge fines
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Put human rights of migrants at heart of new development agenda, UN urgedUN special rapporteur warns millennium development goals went for ‘low-hanging fruit’ at expense of tackling inequality
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Gay asylum seekers face ‘intrusive’ sexual questionsImmigration watchdog says of the 112 interviews of asylum seekers he reviewed, 10% included unsatisfactory questions
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Thousands of African child migrants feared in thrall to Italian traffickers
Modern-day slavery in focus Thousands of African child migrants feared in thrall to Italian traffickers
More than 3,000 minors may have fallen victim to forced labour and sexual exploitation after vanishing from homes and shelters. Luca Muzi reports -
Anti-slavery group ‘dumbfounded’ by illegal gangmaster’s weak sentenceOutcry after Romanian migrant Gheorge Ionas fined £500 for forcing Armagh apple pickers to endure ‘extreme exploitation’
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Europe must honour its migrant deadSimon Robins: The many thousands who have died trying to reach the EU’s ‘promised land’ deserve better than a shallow grave and a broken stone
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Eight migrants die every day trying to reach richer countries, study revealsResearch into migrant deaths in Europe shows 22,000 missing, presumed dead, in past 14 years – more than half the global total
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The African Union must take its share of responsibility for migrant deathsSede Alonge: African migrants are not Europe’s problem alone. The AU should try to limit illegal migration and make Africa more appealing to its people
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Syrian refugees in Turkey criticise US air strikes against IsisRefugees in Turkish border town of Akçakale expect more to flee Syria if the US continues bombing campaign
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Sinking of Mediterranean migrant boat mass murder, says UN rights chiefZeid Ra'ad Zeid al-Hussein says survivors' accounts of incident in which 500 died point to 'crime that must not go unpunished'
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UN to cut food aid to SyriaWithout more money, World Food Programme warns food rations will be reduced and voucher schemes slashed
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Europe’s worsening migrant crisis - the Guardian briefingThe news of 700 would-be illegal migrants, possibly more, feared drowned after traffickers rammed their boat off Malta has brought the issue of migration into Europe to a head. But what can be done about it?
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Desperate Syrian refugees risk all in bid to reach EuropeDespite the many dangers of trying to cross the Mediterranean, tens of thousands of refugees still seek asylum in Europe, writes Patrick Kingsley
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Sea patrols in Mediterranean extended as borders agency faces €2.3m shortfallMassively increased numbers of migrants sailing to Europe this year is stretching EU border resources to breaking point
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Modern-day slavery rife in Malaysia’s electronics industryReport says a third of migrant workers in industry are trapped in debt bondage and have their passports illegally withheld
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100 children among migrants 'deliberately drowned' in MediterraneanSurvivors say migrant boat was attacked by people traffickers when passengers refused to switch to unseaworthy vessel
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Give drowned migrants the dignity of a nameLetter: In humanitarian disasters it is accepted that those who perish should be identified. The same does not apply where refugees die at sea
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UN global stateless forum calls for rights for 10 million ‘invisible people’Syrian war has swelled number without identity papers as thousands of undocumented children are born in refugee camps
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Migrant boat was 'deliberately sunk' in Mediterranean sea, killing 500Two survivors of 6 September sinking said traffickers rammed boat after passengers refused to transfer to other vessel
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200 migrants feared drowned after boat sinks off Libya coastRescuers search for survivors after boat carrying African migrants to Europe capsizes near Tajoura, east of Tripoli
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Scores feared dead as migrants' boat sinks off Libya
Only 26 of 250 people on board thought rescued after boat goes down near Tajoura, east of Tripoli
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Call for UN to investigate plight of migrant workers in the UAE
David Batty: The ITUC says conditions for labourers on a complex of museums and luxury resorts in Abu Dhabi 'may amount to forced labour'
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Factory floors and sexual frustration: photographing the migrant worker’s life
Sean O'Hagan on photography Factory floors and sexual frustration: photographing the migrant worker’s life
Sean O’Hagan: From crumpled Page 3s in a brick plant in Bedford to the cliche of Italian family weddings, a new group show called Rebecoming tackles emigration head on -
Syria's refugees: fears of abuse grow as Turkish men snap up wives
Women's rights and gender equality in focus Syria's refugees: fears of abuse grow as Turkish men snap up wives
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One man's hellish journey from Eritrea terror to UK sanctuary
Thousands of Eritreans risk their lives each year trying to reach the United Kingdom and one man's successful journey meant suffering privations for three years
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World's most dangerous journey? Eritreans risk life and limb to get to UK – interactive
Modern-day slavery in focus World's most dangerous journey? Eritreans risk life and limb to get to UK – interactive
Every month, up to 4,000 Eritreans flee the country in search of a new home, travelling along routes notorious for human trafficking. Here, we follow the journey of a refugee as he makes the three-year trek -
Europe's migrant influx: illegal border crossings soar in 2014Migrant numbers, boosted by Syrians and Libyans fleeing conflict, predicted to exceed height of Arab spring
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British human rights activists feared detained by police in Qatar
Krishna Upadhyaya and Ghimire Gundev were investigating the Gulf state's controversial treatment of Nepalese workers
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In praise of… Andy HallEditorial: Thailand should be embarrassed that its courts are being used to prosecute a British researcher for alleging abuse of migrant workers in its food industry
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Greece's migrant fruit pickers: 'They kept firing. There was blood everywhere'
Helena Smith: Last year, Greek farm guards shot at illegal migrant strawberry pickers, wounding 35. When a court acquitted them this summer, there was outrage. At the camp, where they continue to live like slaves, the workers share their stories
Modern-day slavery in focus The global slavery index is based on flawed data – why does no one say so?