By withdrawing from Afghanistan, Biden could spark the world’s next refugee crisis

Between the end of 2019 and 2020, 416,630 asylum-seekers arrived in the European Union. A large number, to be sure, but hardly sensational compared to 2015, when 1.2 million asylum-seekers arrived. AFTER TROOPS WITHDRAWAL, ASYLUM-SEEKER BOATS ARE LIKELY TO SET SAIL… FOR EUROPEAN SHORES … Read More

Deaths Soar as Migrants Attempt to Reach Europe by Sea

FILE – Migrants wait to be rescued by the Ocean Viking during a search and rescue operation in the Mediterranean Sea, July 5, 2021. (Flavio Gasperini/SOS Mediterranee/Handout via Reuters) ROME – The International Organization for Migration said Wednesday that deaths … Read More

Germany: Two-thirds of Syrian refugees unable to support themselves

Many Syrian women in Germany are unable to get jobs because of childcare duties | Photo: Annegret Hilse/Reuters Syrians are the main beneficiaries of refugee protection in Germany, yet many are still forced to rely on state welfare to survive. … Read More

Ban on new asylum seekers to Scotland ‘could last for years’

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Many people-smugglers send asylum seekers across the Channel in dangerously small boats – PA Media The temporary ban on accepting new asylum seekers into Scotland could last for years, the BBC has learned. Glasgow City Council is the only local … Read More

More COVID cases and fewer vaccines for EU’s migrants

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A man receiving a shot of the vaccine against COVID-19 at a mobile NPHO unit at Kara Tepe camp on Lesvos island, Greece | Photo: ARCHIVE/EPA/VANGELIS PAPANTONIS According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), COVID-19 hit … Read More

EU states abandon Italy on relocating asylum seekers

Ireland and Lithuania have each agreed to take 10. Luxembourg has also offered to help. (Photo: noborder network) Calls in early May for EU states to help relocate asylum seekers from Italy have largely been ignored. The European Commission had … Read More

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