Migration
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Singapore’s cramped migrant worker dorms hide Covid-19 surge risk
City-state has been lauded for its comprehensive measures but officials have been accused of overlooking key g…
- Coronavirus outbreak, Food poverty, Global development, India, Infectious diseases, Migration, World news
Coronavirus: Indian migrant workers sprayed with disinfectant amid mass exodus from cities – video
Video footage shows Indian health workers spraying disinfectant on a group of migrant workers, amid fears that…
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Filipinos step into the breach as German care homes run low on staff
Companies offer incentives to try to tempt workers from Philippines and elsewhere amid high demandMiko Coner G…
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Essex lorry deaths: Vietnam police charge seven over role in trafficking
Police say one migrant was charged $22,000 before being taken to China, France and then the UKPolice in Vietna…
- Australia news, Australian immigration and asylum, Christmas Island, Migration, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, World news
Biloela family wait in Christmas Island limbo as Wuhan evacuees see out quarantine
Exclusive: As they prepare for their final hearing, the only asylum seekers on the island hope they, too, will…
- Australia news, Australian immigration and asylum, Australian politics, Christmas Island, Migration, Scott Morrison, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka
Inside Christmas Island: the Australian detention centre with four asylum seekers and a $26m price tag
The sole occupants of a million-dollar facility off the country’s coast are two adults and two small children,…
- Asia Pacific, Australia news, Australian immigration and asylum, Australian politics, Health, Human rights, Manus Island, Migration, Papua New Guinea, Refugees
Leaked photos of Papua New Guinea prison reveal ‘torture’ of 18 asylum seekers cut off from world
Exclusive: Conditions inside Australia-funded Bomana centre prompted dozens to agree to return to country of o…
- Asia Pacific, Australia news, Australian immigration and asylum, Behrouz Boochani, Christchurch, Coalition, Kurds, Manus Island, Migration, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Refugees
New Zealand would be honoured to take Behrouz Boochani. Australia be damned | Morgan Godfery
The moral case for the former Manus island detainee becoming a citizen is as simple as ‘asylum is a human righ…
- Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Europe, Global development, Migration, Migration and development, South and Central Asia, World news
‘Blood on the ground’ at Croatia’s borders as brutal policing persists
While heavy snow makes life unbearable for migrants, a dangerous nightly ‘game’ has led to alleged assault and…
- Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Islam, Migration, Narendra Modi, Pakistan, Religion, South and Central Asia, World news
Indian citizenship law discriminatory to Muslims passed
Bill will allow refugees from nearby states to become Indian but not if they are MuslimsIndian lawmakers have …
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‘What you hear about Chinese people in France feeling scared – it’s true’
People of Chinese descent have long faced prejudice and violence in France. But today a new generation is stak…
- Asia Pacific, Australia news, Australian immigration and asylum, Behrouz Boochani, Jacinda Ardern, Manus Island, Migration, New Zealand, New Zealand politics, Pacific islands, Papua New Guinea, Refugees, World news
Jacinda Ardern says she was kept in the dark over arrival of Manus refugee Behrouz Boochani
New Zealand PM says she’s disappointed her immigration minister was aware of the arrival but had not passed in…
- Asia Pacific, Australia news, Australian immigration and asylum, Behrouz Boochani, Jacinda Ardern, Manus Island, Migration, New Zealand, New Zealand politics, Pacific islands, Papua New Guinea, Refugees, World news
Jacinda Ardern says she was kept in the dark over arrival of Manus refugee Behrouz Boochani
New Zealand PM says she’s disappointed her immigration minister was aware of the arrival but had not passed in…
- Asia Pacific, Australia news, Australian immigration and asylum, Behrouz Boochani, Manus Island, Migration, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, World news
Behrouz Boochani, brutalised but not beaten by Manus, says simply: ‘I did my best’
After six hellish years inside Australia’s offshore detention regime, Boochani reflects on the country that re…
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‘No hustle and bustle’: the only place in New Zealand where population is falling
The South Island’s beautiful and desolate west coast region suffers from a severe lack of jobs and people We a…