EU commissioner Ursula von der Leyen wants to triple the number of Frontex officials to 30,000. Activists fear that an expansion of the EU border agency could lead to pushbacks driving migrants back into authoritarian regimes. infomigrants.net/en/post/59670/…

Spain has signed new circular migration agreements with The Gambia and Mauritania, and extended an existing agreement with Senegal. By offering temporary work opportunities, Spain wants to provide legal pathways for migrants and address labor shortages. infomigrants.net/en/post/59661/…

Spain's deputy prime minister, Yolanda Diaz, has called for more than 500,000 irregular migrants in the country to be granted legal status. A citizens' initiative is currently being considered by parliament. infomigrants.net/en/post/59675/…

📸 These migrants landed in the port of La Restinga, on El Hierro, in a small wooden boat yesterday. The Spanish island off the coast of West Africa with a population of ~11,000 has seen some 13,000 migrants land on its shores so far this year, according to Red Cross estimates.

21 migrants likely died in a shipwreck off Lampedusa two days ago. Sea rescue organization Sea-Watch has accused Italy of delaying assistance despite prior warnings. They claim to have reported the boat in distress two days before the capsizing. infomigrants.net/en/post/59680/…

Khaled and his two sisters barely escaped a deadly shipwreck in the English Channel earlier this week. They decided to get off the overcrowded boat because they did not feel safe. The dinghy later broke apart; 12 people died in the shipwreck.

Moroccan migrants like 19-yr-old Chaimae El Grini have captured their journeys to Spanish territory on social media, attracting millions of views. But behind that rosy picture, the reality is much more dangerous. infomi.gr/1HSH.T

Thousands of migrants return to their home country each year through the voluntary return program by IOM - UN Migration 🇺🇳 agency IOM. How exactly does that process work? This article answers the most important questions: infomigrants.net/en/post/58924/…

Policy makers in Germany took the recent support for the far-right AfD party in Saxony and Thuringia as a sign that people want tougher laws on immigration and asylum. So what changes are being discussed? And how far can, or will, Germany go? infomi.gr/1HSE.T

A UK court has sentenced a 43-year-old man to 10 years in prison for smuggling seven Vietnamese people. The migrants had been discovered in a dangerously small hidden compartment ("the width of a human chest") in a van on a ferry from France to England. infomigrants.net/en/post/59692/…

Her three brothers set sail from Bargny, Senegal, with the aim of reaching the Canaries in early May. Since then, Halimatou and her family have not heard from them... infomigrants.net/en/post/59623/…

Are some areas of Syria safe enough to deport people to these regions? This question has come up again in Germany after the Solingen attack. But experts told us that none of the four areas controlled by different actors can be considered safe. infomigrants.net/en/post/59688/…

Africa's youth are optimistic about the continent's future but dissatisfied with their governments and corruption, a survey has found. Around 60% of young people want to emigrate, mostly to North America or European countries.👇 infomi.gr/1HSp.T

A growing number of Moroccan migrants have documented their crossings to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on social media. But behind the rosy pictures, the reality is much more dangerous... infomigrants.net/en/post/59606/…

Spain has circular migration agreements with The Gambia, Mauritania, Senegal, Morocco and several Latin American countries. They allow for people to work in Spain for a specific time, then return home. An explanation of Spain's circular migration policy: infomigrants.net/en/post/59661/…

Italy's coast guard recovered 6 bodies off the coast of Sicily, believed to be some of the 21 missing from a migrant shipwreck off #Lampedusa earlier this month. infomigrants.net/en/post/59702/…

The EU aims to better control #migration: with smart lie detectors, AI-based dialect analysis to determine speakers origins and AI assistants that asses whether a migrant might present a safety threat. (📽️- report 👇🏾) infomigrants.net/en/post/59703/…

The Italy-based charity Sant'Egidio has called for more legal migration channels after over 20 people died off the Italian island of #Lampedusa on September 2. Meanwhile, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has criticized the obstacles facing NGO rescue ships. infomigrants.net/en/post/59708/…

Amid a standoff over overcrowded reception facilities, Spain's defense ministry has agreed to provide two military sites in the Canary Islands for the reception of migrant minors. #CanaryIslands #migrants infomigrants.net/en/post/59707/…