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...
On Tuesday the Hungarian government submitted to Parliament the latest version of its anti-migration, anti-civil society, anti-democratic laws. They have met with widespread international condemnation. But will European leaders and political parties finally respond?...
Today the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) published preliminary observations of its visit to detention facilities in Greece from 10 to 19 April 2018. The Committee confirmed the persisting reality of wide disparities in standards across Greece’s...
On 23 May 2018, the French government adopted a decree “experimenting certain modalities of processing of asylum applications in Guiana”, aiming to test an acceleration of the asylum procedure in Guiana; one of the main French overseas territories receiving...
According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) 285.000 Afghans have returned from Iran over the last five month constituting a 150.000 increase from the same period last year. 12,000 undocumented Afghans have returned or been deported from Pakistan...
The Spanish authorities rescued over 500 people from 15 different boats attempting to cross the Mediterranean this weekend. The Spanish Ombudsman recently urged the authorities to set up a system of immediate registration of asylum applications in Detention Centres...
