migrants and refugees Archives

Brazil braces for wave of Haitian migration after Moïse’s killing

Jul 12, 2021

Brazil can expect to see more migrants coming from Haiti, following the social and political turmoil caused by President Jovenel Moïse’s assassination on July 7.

By Eduardo Campos Lima

Church group seeks ‘educational pathways’ for refugees to reach America

Jul 3, 2021

A new report from a faith-based organization calls for the federal government to create educational pathways for refugees to resettle in the U.S., as the Biden administration looks to rebuild the nation’s refugee resettlement program.

By John Lavenburg

Newly sanctified Tunisian cemetery for migrants filling fast

Jun 22, 2021

Zarzis is a port city where migrants bound for Europe frequently wind up after their boats go astray in the Mediterranean’s uncertain currents. One of its cemeteries is already filled with those who died trying to make the crossing.

By Mehdi Al-Arem and Lori Hinnant

Asylum-seekers help produce Italy’s famous Brunello wine

Jun 3, 2021

24 asylum-seekers from Africa and Asia are working in vineyards of Tenute Silvio Nardi on this year’s crop of Brunello di Montalcino, one of Italy’s most famous wines.

By Andrea Rosa

Food, shelter, beatings: Spanish border city divided over migrants

May 22, 2021

Residents of Spain’s multi-ethnic city of Ceuta are used to being in the news every time the fragile alliance between Spain and Morocco shakes up.

By Renata Brito and Bernat Armangué

Rescue groups decry loss of migrant lives in Mediterranean

Apr 25, 2021

Rescue groups and the Vatican are decrying the latest deaths of migrants who put to sea in traffickers’ unseaworthy boats, amid laments that central Mediterranean nations are choosing not to dispatch vessels to save them.

By Maria Grazia Murru and Frances D'Emilio

Pope: Migrants begged for help at sea, shamefully ignored

Apr 25, 2021

Pope Francis on Sunday decried as shameful the deaths of 130 migrants in the Mediterranean, saying they pleaded for two days for help for their overcrowded, foundering rubber dinghy in the sea off Libya but potential rescuers choose “to look the other way.”

By Frances D'Emilio

JRS launches border program to address migrants’ psychological needs

Apr 23, 2021

Migrants arriving in Ciudad Juárez in recent years have remained stuck in the Mexican border city, unable to claim asylum in the United States and vulnerable to crimes such as kidnapping, robbery and extortion.

By David Agren