UK plans to pay asylum seekers to move to Rwanda | Migration News

UK plans to pay asylum seekers to move to Rwanda | Migration News

Plans are separate from the ‘Rwanda bill’, a stalled plan to forcibly deport most asylum seekers to the African country. The United Kingdom’s government is considering plans to pay asylum seekers whose applications have failed up to 3,000 British pounds ($3,840) to move to Rwanda. The proposed scheme, part of…

Fears of mass migration from Myanmar as military plans to draft thousands | Conflict News

Fears of mass migration from Myanmar as military plans to draft thousands | Conflict News

Ko Naing* is just the sort of young man Myanmar’s military is looking for. Hoping to make up for recruitment shortfalls and battlefield losses against armed groups fighting to reverse its 2021 coup, Myanmar’s military last month announced plans to enforce a years-old conscription law. Starting in April, the military…

Al Jazeera films Haitians being deported back across border into chaos | Migration

Al Jazeera films Haitians being deported back across border into chaos | Migration

NewsFeed Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo is on the border with Haiti as the Dominican Republic deports thousands of Haitians back to a country where security has collapsed as gangs fight to oust the government. Published On 10 Mar 202410 Mar 2024 Check out our Latest News and Follow us at…

‘Incendiary and wrong’: Biden spurs anger for calling migrant ‘an illegal’ | Joe Biden News

‘Incendiary and wrong’: Biden spurs anger for calling migrant ‘an illegal’ | Joe Biden News

Rights advocates have slammed United States President Joe Biden for referring to an undocumented immigrant as “an illegal” during his State of the Union address, accusing him of echoing the dehumanising rhetoric of his predecessor Donald Trump. During Thursday’s speech at the US Capitol, Biden was heckled by Republicans over…

Seven-year-old girl killed in English Channel crossing attempt | Migration News

Seven-year-old girl killed in English Channel crossing attempt | Migration News

Deadly incident is the third fatal English Channel crossing attempt this year. A seven-year-old girl has drowned after a small boat carrying 16 people trying to get to the United Kingdom capsized in northern France, according to French authorities. The boat overturned on Sunday after the passengers boarded it in…

A woman has to be ‘stronger than a lion’ to cross the Mediterranean | Migration

A woman has to be ‘stronger than a lion’ to cross the Mediterranean | Migration

Mediterranean Sea – On the open sea, thousands of kilometres from land, on a flimsy blue wooden boat, 21-year-old Linda* from Daraa, Syria, didn’t care if she lived or died. She and 125 other refugees had left the Libyan coastal city of Sabratha in the dark of night, and her…

Five drown as migrant boat capsizes during rescue operation off Malta | Migration News

Five drown as migrant boat capsizes during rescue operation off Malta | Migration News

Eight other people were injured and 21 were rescued by Malta’s armed forces. Five people have died and eight others were injured after the boat they were in capsized during a rescue operation by armed forces from Malta off the Mediterranean island. The armed forces deputy commander Colonel Edric Zahra…

‘Disillusioned about China’, more Chinese aim for US via risky Darien Gap | Migration

‘Disillusioned about China’, more Chinese aim for US via risky Darien Gap | Migration

Necocli, Colombia – Shortly after 8am, about a dozen Chinese migrants rush out the doors of Mansion del Darien, a rundown hotel a few blocks from Colombia’s Caribbean coast, and pile into three tuk-tuks waiting on the street. “We’re full of Chinese people every day,” said the receptionist, Gabriela Fernandez,…

Egyptians accused of Pylos shipwreck deny smuggling charges, blame Greece | Refugees News

Egyptians accused of Pylos shipwreck deny smuggling charges, blame Greece | Refugees News

Names marked with an asterisk have been changed to protect identities. Athens, Greece – Saeed* cannot understand why he is in the Avlona prison, a detention centre northeast of the Greek capital Athens. “Whoever asks me why you are in prison, I answer that I don’t know,” said the 21-year-old…

‘Overtly racist’: Lawsuit challenges Canada’s migrant farmworker system | Workers’ Rights News

‘Overtly racist’: Lawsuit challenges Canada’s migrant farmworker system | Workers’ Rights News

Montreal, Canada – “It would be contrary to the whole Canadian belief in freedom of the individual.” The year was 1952, and Canada’s then-minister of immigration, Walter Harris, was rebuffing the idea of tying immigrant farmworkers from Europe to their Canadian employers. “It would, of course, be possible to take…