Migrant Crisis

Europe Letter: Viktor Orban is the guy at the party most of the other EU leaders wish had left early

Letter to ministers Darragh O’Brien and Roderic O’Gorman warned movements are having ‘devastating impact’ on children’s rights

Syrian-Irish writer’s memoir I Don’t Want to Talk About Home was published in 2022

Immigration and border security are key issues in the US presidential election campaign, yet those making the crossing care more for food and water than politics

Two years ago about 375 Syrians were interviewed in Lebanon by Irish officials and told they would be resettled in Ireland before 2024. They’re still waiting - amid bombs, deprivation and discrimination. Sally Hayden spoke to some of those people, who feel trapped, scared and forgotten

Drones ‘tested over Gaza’ have been reappropriated by the EU to monitor migrants in the Mediterranean

Climate, immigration and the sustainability of our economic model are subjects no one wants to talk about but they are not going away

Under pressure from the far right, focus of EU leaders moves to more deportations and tighter borders

So far this year, 47 deaths have been reported by coastguard, including a baby

Greece Letter: Those arriving in Greece face an old problem - how to accept their new circumstances while sustaining a memory of who they actually are

In a word: Immigration, we need it

‘The tents have been flying everywhere,’ says spokesman as migrants moved to houses in Newtownmountkennedy and Crooksling

Summit of European leaders hears call for firmer deportation policies as migration dominates agenda

Built at cost of over €1 billion, Ciudad Real airport operated for only three years before euro zone crisis

Taoiseach says Ireland has an ‘open mind’ to idea for EU deportation sites for failed asylum seekers

President Andrzej Duda joined the criticism of the asylum policy adopted by the government, saying it would harm Belarusian dissidents fleeing repression

The party is calling for a temporary closure of the country’s borders to asylum claimants

Proposal would see asylum seekers deported to ‘hubs’ outside of the EU then returned to home countries

Human rights body asks court to reconsider making order forcing State to vindicate the asylum seekers’ rights

Surprise as Senate votes against declaring an ‘asylum crisis’

More than 50 people believed to have died while crossing to islands from west Africa

FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl has shaped party’s populist brand with rhyming, racist rhetoric

Move comes two weeks after Waterways Ireland started 24-hour patrols of the canal to stop homeless people erecting tents there

Annual report from Courts Service shows continuing fall in most types of crime but continuing rise in domestic violence applications

A proposal to charge asylum seekers with jobs €15 or €25 a week for accommodation is a pathetic response

The leader of Austria’s Freedom Party (FPÖ) hopes to become ‘the people’s chancellor’ following this month’s general election

Interior minister Nancy Faeser said decision to temporarily set aside open-border measures was due to security risk posed by the numbers of irregular arrivals

MSF tackles challenge of providing mental healthcare to traumatised asylum seekers and refugees

Worldview: English Channel's worst incident so far this year occurred on September 3rd, when 12 people perished

Extreme right’s gains are forcing EU states to consider a hardened policy

Social Democratic Party leader rejects Christian Democratic Union claim government has ‘lost control’ of immigration

Sum spent in first seven months of 2024 more than four times that for all 2023 as protests and linked disorder increase

As migration ramps up tensions in the Scholz coalition, few in Berlin expect ‘temporary’ border measures to be eased before June 2026, when a new EU migration and asylum pact comes in

Coalition agreement includes possibility of making law to allow country to temporarily stop accepting refugees

More than 50 people rescued and two missing after ‘terrible shipwreck’ off coast of Cap Gris-Nez

Yusuf was among 73 people taken on board the Médecins Sans Frontières Geo Barents ship off Libya

Interviews with migrants on a rescue ship help trace their routes to Europe, which can often include legal or semi-legal portions

Department of Integration hopes to open Thornton Hall site for accommodation in the coming weeks which will allow international protection triaging to continue

Economy needs regulated arrivals, prime minister says

Pontiff calls for ‘global governance of migration based on justice, brotherhood and solidarity’