A report by the Jesuit Migrants Service published today documents Spain’s use of immigration detention in 2017, against the backdrop of increasing numbers of arrivals. Spain placed 8,814 persons in Foreigner Detention Centres (Centros de Internamiento de Extranjeros,...
The 1 -3 June saw devastating loss of life across all the three major Mediterranean migration routes, making it the deadliest weekend in the region this year. An estimated 125 men, women and children have drowned off the coast of Turkey, Tunisia, Algeria, Spain and...
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) have this week signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Myanmar Government detailing plans for the repatriation of Rohingya refugees. The tripartite...
In the last two weeks, the French authorities have carried out evacuations of three unofficial camps on the streets of Paris, and rounded up almost 2,000 migrants who had been living there. The ‘Millenaire’ camp in the Northeast of the city, the largest of its kind in...
By Diana Ihring, REACH Migration Assessment Manager. In May 2017 almost 23,000 migrants reached Italy, this month less than 4,000 migrants are recorded to have arrived in Italy from Libya, an almost six fold decrease. This drop coincides with a number of measures the...
