Migrants’ Party

Stop voting for people who you are not

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Shelter or Hold Stories of Catastrophe


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1948 May 15: Nakba Day, Day of the Catastrophe in Palestine

1944 May 16: Day of Sinti, Romani and Roma resistance

1944 May 18: Day of Remembrance for the victims of the Crimean Tatar genocide

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Want Educated Immigrants? Let In More Africans

South Sudanese flee war to neighbouring countries

Hmong veterans gather in Madison to celebrate Hmong-Lao Veterans Appreciation Day

Crimean Tatars mark 74th anniversary of deportation as 25,000 driven out of Crimea since 2014

Crimean Tatars Detained for Honouring the Victims of the Deportation

Kyrgyzstan: labor migrants need social protection, investment incentives

Finland moves to ease restrictions on non-EU workers

UN expert warns of ‘stark increase’ in hate crimes across UK, post-Brexit vote

Health challenges for migrants and ethnic minorities tackled at global conference

Minister of Labour Tells What Belarusians Abroad To Be Considered “Parasites”

Jobless foreign nurses ‘stuck’ in Namibia

This French Guiana slave from Gabon gained popularity as a 19th-century criminal and hero

Bosnia Struggles With Thousands Of Migrants On New Route To Western Europe

Serbia: a ‘transit’ shelter for migrants

Greece changes asylum rules to fight camp overcrowding

How Muslim Migrants Are Reshaping Russia’s Dying Countryside, One Village At A Time

Slovakia: Two Romani children shot in Poprad, perpetrator not yet identified

State terror: Romani children need protection from abuse in care homes

Canada grants former MEP Viktória Mohácsi political asylum

Former Romani MP and poet Kujtim Pacaku dies at 59

Ultranationalist Terrorist Kills Romani Man With Knife in Bulgaria

Two-year-old migrant girl dies after being shot in the face during police chase in Belgium

Tibetan Monks Trained in India Banned From Teaching in Lithang

Gambia ex-president accused of ordering 50 migrant deaths

Paris Knife Attacker, Born in Chechnya, Was on Terrorism Watch List

Trump administration preparing to shelter migrant children on Texas military bases

Trump administration preparing to hold immigrant children on military bases

Countries must compete for migrant workers to boost their economies

A Personal Testimony Of The Migrant Caravan

Border Patrol failed to count hundreds of migrant deaths on US soil

85,000-Year-Old Footprints Show Stepping Stone in Human Migration

Migrant crisis emerges in Sahara Desert on Algeria-Niger border

Stories of the catastrophe: Palestine

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How 250 Siberians Became the First Native Americans


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1950 May 9: Europe Day

1948 May 15: Nakba Day, Day of the Catastrophe in Palestine

1944 May 16: Day of Sinti, Romani and Roma resistance

1944 May 18: Day of Remembrance for the victims of the Crimean Tatar genocide

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How 250 Siberians Became the First Native Americans

Kurdish immigrant commits suicide in Germany following deportation notice

Advocates walk out of hearing to protest plan to separate migrant families

Windrush migrant who returned to Jamaica gets PM award

Latvia shrinks, former expats plug holes

What is Finnishness?

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Migrant Caravan @ California

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May 3: World Press Freedom Day

1950 May 9: Europe Day

1948 May 15: Nakba Day, Day of the Catastrophe in Palestine

1944 May 16: Day of Sinti, Romani and Roma resistance

1944 May 18: Day of Remembrance for the victims of the Crimean Tatar genocide

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Rohingya refugees tearfully plead for U.N. Security Council help

Afghanistan’s First Female Pilot Granted Asylum in U.S.

Russian Asylum Applications In U.S. Hit 24-Year Record

Syrian refugee fighting for his life after being stabbed in ‘racist attack’

Many Roma Feel Discriminated

Estonian community abroad wants more attention from state

Wage remittances to Moldova keep rising, strengthen local currency

China: Xinjiang, Agriculture and the Uighur Population

Breizh Bistrot part of the second coming of the crepe

Many Tibetan refugees in Karnataka can vote in 2018 polls but they won’t, here’s why

Spying: China’s Invisible Tentacles Extend into the Exile Tibetan Community

Meet Sajid Javid, Britain’s first home secretary from an ethnic minority

BBC bosses accused of paying ethnic minority staff £20k less than white staff

One-third of white Brits don’t have any friends from an ethnic minority

Time to count the mental cost of hardship for ethnic minorities in Hong Kong

350 Human Trafficking Victims Rescued Across 13 Caribbean, Latin American Countries

Serbian LGBTQ leader finds sanctuary in Calgary

The Philippines Is Permanently Banning Its Workers From Going to Kuwait

Refugees continue to face starvation in civil war-torn South Sudan

Fiji govt’s reasons for stop departure questioned

Trump administration moves to expel some 57,000 Hondurans

Migrant Caravan of Asylum Seekers Reaches U.S. Border

U.S. Lets a Few Members of a Migrant Caravan Apply for Asylum

Migrant caravan seeking asylum faces a tough uncertain future

The migrant caravan arrives at California’s doorstep, amid protests, cheers and questions

How Mexico Has Been Using Checkpoints And Deportations To Address Migration

Migrant Dreams: Canada’s Broken Promise

California Today: Members of the Migrant Caravan Await Their Fate Near San Diego

This Mighty Caravan Organizer Is Fighting for the Right to Migrate

UN Migration Agency Supports Latest Relocation of Venezuelans in Brazil

How bad is it in the countries these migrants are fleeing from? This bad

How Botswana Revived Africa’s Largest Mammal Migration

Rwanda police arrest 23 Congolese refugees after violence in camp

Clashes at migrant hostel stir German integration fears

Is Switzerland’s cross-border workforce at a crossroads?

Urban nomads: Mongolian herders battle new future as leave the land for the city

Tory immigration policy threatens Gaelic provision on Mull

Politician takes up cause of Nova Scotia woman who wants to teach Gaelic in Scotland

Doctors prepare for spike in Rohingya women giving birth after sexual attacks

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Record High Remittances on World’s Deadliest Migration Route


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May 3: World Press Freedom Day

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Exclusive: Expelled spies included Russians suspected of tracking compatriots who resettled in US

“One problem in Finland is Ramadan because the sun doesn’t go down”

Vietnamese teen’s escape from the China trafficking trade that sold her mother

Migrants on Greek island of Lesbos attacked by far-Right extremists shouting ‘burn them alive’

Kazakh Man Recounts ‘Reeducation’ In Western Chinese Camp

Son of Guinea’s first president charged with forced labor in Texas

Tibetan Refugees in India Protect Language and Culture

Philippines protests as Kuwait expels envoy over maid ‘rescues’

Britain to set up compensation scheme for ‘Windrush’ migrants

Laos to track Thai fugitives suspected of royal insult – media

Togo: Remittances from diaspora reached nearly 9% of GDP in 2017

Suffering for migrants in Libya ‘worse’ since fall-off in sea crossings

Starting your career? Switzerland offers the highest entry-level salaries in Europe

UNL master’s student preparing to graduate advocates for persecuted Yazidi

Trump officials warn of arrests as migrant caravan reaches U.S. border

A few migrants start asylum requests, but most of the caravan is still in tents

By Stifling Migration, Sudan’s Feared Secret Police Aid Europe

What Refugees Face on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route

EU launches a new plan to deal with economic migration

Federal Agencies Lost Track of Nearly 1,500 Migrant Children Placed With Sponsors

Colombia’s Migrant Crisis Worsens With Venezuela Nearing ‘Implosion’

Record high remittances to low- and middle-income countries in 2017

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aspiration or desperation

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May 3: World Press Freedom Day

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Rohingya Crisis Is Becoming Islam’s Genocide

The day the Soviets invaded Britain to capture an Estonian

Russia Tells Its Study-Abroad Students: It’s Time To Come Home

Getting by after four years of war in Ukraine

Finland knife attacker says he was ‘in war against women’

Finland’s Vertigo Goes Beyond Nordic Noir at Series Mania

“Why wouldn’t you employ me?”— Life as a blind immigrant in Finland

Azerbaijani Journalist Wanted By Baku Leaves Ukraine After Months Of Uncertainty

Increased visibility has led to a serious drop in prejudice against the Roma

Gypsies arrive in Gloucester park and tell us how much they love the city

Celebrating Romani art and culture at the first Roma Biennale

Roma in Ireland: Pavee Point report exposes ‘relentless’ poverty and deep discrimination

Hmong Language and Culture Enrichment Program Develops Strong Cultural Identities

Artists to showcase Hmong-American experience in ‘ALOUD’ exhibition

Tiny flats mean large ethnic minority families must split to secure public housing in Hong Kong

Charity boards less diverse than UK’s biggest companies, says report

Austria to seize asylum seekers’ mobile phones, cash

For War Refugees, Bedsheets Are a Reminder of Home

South Sudan’s refugee flow is often a children’s crisis

Lebanon: Mass Evictions of Syrian Refugees

More Filipinos workers from Kuwait return home

Poland marks 75th anniversary of uprising in Warsaw Ghetto

Iraqi Yazidi Family Finds Refuge in Armenia

For Yazidis In U.S., New Year Holiday Brings Taste Of Lamb And The Home They Fled

On Yezidi New Year, SRSG Kubiš Calls for Continued Efforts to Win Freedom of Kidnapped Women and Children, for Accountability for Crimes Against Yezidis

The migrant caravan’s next steps may be an even tougher journey

Some 50 members of migrant caravan reach Mexico, U.S. border

Migrant Caravan Asylum Seekers Being ‘Illegally’ Turned Away at Border

Data shows migration more strongly linked to aspiration than desperation

‘I hadn’t been home for three years’: One migrant’s struggle in China

Job quest spurs adivasi exodus

Seventy-six Rohingya refugees rescued in Indonesia after drifting at sea for nine days

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh on ‘precarious ground’ ahead of monsoon season

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New Lynching Memorial

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April 27th in Brussels: Uyghur March For Freedom

A new home and a new language – the Syrian children who are learning Welsh

U.S. seeks to deport thousands of Vietnamese protected by treaty: former ambassador

“I feel so safe “

This new lynching memorial rewrites American history

Very Few Elderly Immigrants In Iceland Have Access To Pension

Investor migration and the rise of the global citizen

Catlonia’s Marta Rovira breaks silence: “I’m in Switzerland to keep fighting against a brutal political persecution”

Irish journalist working overseas? Have you a story for Irish Times Abroad?

The genocide of the Roma – and how commemoration of this ‘forgotten Holocaust’ is shifting

Chinese man charged with spying on Tibetan refugees faces four years in Swedish prison

Tibetan Democracy One of Most Unique Systems

Estonia may see more new e-residents in 2018 than previous years combined

Hmong colonel who fought with U.S. in Vietnam gets full military burial

‘Growing up Hmong at the crossroads’ is a journey of generations

Screening of “The CIA’s Lost Army” at the European Parliament hosted by MEP Ignazio Corrao

Hundreds of Villagers in Chiang Rai’s Wiang Kaen District Protest Police Detention of Three Hmong Men Detained Over Suspected Drug Smuggling

Hong Kong’s ethnic minority children need higher-education support, not just handouts

The longboarding crew encouraging more young women from ethnic minorities to get involved in sport

Church leaders turn to racial, ethnic minorities as congregations dwindle

Ethnic minorities make up a disproportionately high proportion of women fleeing domestic violence

Army chiefs ordered to recruit more women, LGBT and ethnic minorities

Cane farmer draws on Basque heritage to encourage female farm succession

Migrant smuggling organised crime group dismantled in Romania and Austria

Saint Lucia Police issue human trafficking alert

Erdogan vows to bring back Gülenists from abroad

Gabon returns three suspects to Turkey over Gulen links

Kuwait to become first GCC state to impose remittance tax

Why we must listen to those who have fled Kagame’s Rwanda

Rwandan genocide 24 years on: what happened to the children born of rape?

On Rwandan genocide anniversary: Can world muster the will to prevent new atrocities?

Flawed return deal offers no way back for Rohingya refugees

UN decries ‘sheer horror’ suffered by thousands detained in Libya

Returning Students Want to Help Rebuild Gambia

Are you entitled to family benefits in Luxembourg?

The number of Slovaks returning from abroad rises

B.C. professor jailed in Slovakia accused of child porn, sexual violence

Why UK circus artists are lining up to train at Belgium’s Ecole Superieure des Arts du Cirque

Italy busts new smuggling ring bringing migrants from Tunisia

IOM holding workshop for media representatives in Turkmenistan

El Salvador bishops in D.C. to plead for saving immigration protections

Yazidi Survivors of ISIS’ Sinjar Massacre share their stories

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E-Residency, Migrant Caravan, Dumping Ground, Easter Service Hero

April 8: International Romani day

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One of Estonia’s first “e-residents” explains what it means to have digital citizenship

Estonia grants asylum to Open Russia activist

Dear God, I wanted to live

Uyghur Reporters’ Families Face Tremendous Pressure Back At Home

In New York’s ‘Little Liberia,’ some immigrants get ready to leave — or go underground

Trump threatens Honduras’ foreign aid over migrant caravan

Trump warns of migrant caravan following Fox News report, but organizers say reality far from their portrayal

As Migrant Caravan Splinters, Trump Takes Credit and Mexico Scoffs

Mexico vets and disperses Central American migrant ‘caravan’

How Trump’s policies could worsen the migration issue he says he wants to solve

Deported American gang members make El Salvador murder rate soar

How A Guatemalan Village’s Fortunes Rose And Fell With U.S. Migration And Deportation

Venezuela’s Migration Crisis

Who’s Pueblo Sin Fronteras, the group behind the migrant caravan that drew Trump’s ire?

Labour exploitation now predominant form of trafficking in Cyprus

Serbia a ‘dumping ground’ for migrants blocked by EU states

Drumbeats and headdresses: Unangax dance group connects descendants to their culture

Israel’s Netanyahu scraps African migrant relocation deal with U.N.

Pope baptizes Italy ‘migrant hero’ at Easter Eve service

Return Migration by German Guestworkers: Neoclassical versus New Economic Theories

About 40,000 Ukrainians have left Crimea because of intimidation

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Social Media Handle Turnover

April 8: International Romani day

What we know about Emma Gonzalez, the fiercely outspoken teen who stunned America with her silence

US to require would-be immigrants to turn over social media handles

Kosovo Deports Turks Linked To Erdogan Foe Gulen

‘Very, very shocking’: UN on detention of asylum on Nauru

Brutal assailant attacks Romani woman in front of her children, Czech Police can’t get their stories straight

Hungary sued for taking away too many Roma children from their families due to poverty

How one Roma family fled persecution for safety in Canada

Panama and Costa Rica Prepare for Venezuelan Exodus

Far-right German arrested in Hungary for ‘selling guns to use against migrants’

Welsh choir strikes a chord

Estonian community in the Netherlands dedicate an oak field to Estonia

48th Estonian Cultural Days underway in New York

Thailand Bus Fire Kills 20 Migrant Workers From Myanmar

Philippine migration takes on a female face

America Cannot Bear to Bring Back Indentured Servitude

For first time in 70 years, Palestinians return to their villages

Group Marches the Track of Dalai Lama’s Journey to Exile 60 Years Ago

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Happiness in Migration: Flocks and Followers

‘Trust No One’: Exiled Azerbaijani Reporter Says He’s Being Hunted In Kyiv

Ukraine refuses asylum to a Tatar facing certain persecution in Russia for his faith

As Putin’s Opponents Flocked to London, His Spies Followed

1916 March 20: Mbuti pygmy Ota Benga exhibited at Bronx Zoo commits suicide

Anguilla: A little island with a big voice

Beijing also persecutes the Uyghurs abroad

El Salvador Debates Best Way to Counter MS-13 Gang Violence

13 citizens of Kyrgyzstan held in slavery in Russia, 1 woman committed suicide

Migrants Captured In Libya Say They End Up Sold As Slaves

How the United Arab Emirates, a Country of 90 Percent Immigrants, Handles Immigration

Neo-Nazis attack Afghan Community in Greece’s office in Athens

Seeking acceptance: the Pakistanis building a new life in Azerbaijan

The struggles of displaced persons in Central African Republic

The lost children of the Empire and the attempted Aboriginal genocide

Meet the Human Faces of Climate Migration

Figures of the week: Happiness and migration within and from sub-Saharan Africa

At least 16 dead as migrant boat sinks off Greek island

Spanish prosecutor requests seizing passports of Catalan leaders abroad

Pro-independence Esquerra party leader Marta Rovira goes into exile

Puigdemont detained in Germany

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Through the ‘Gate of Tears’

From Estonia to Thirlmere: Mall Juske’s migrant farming story

Uygurs around the world rally in protest against Chinese security campaign in Xinjiang

Kuwait shuts its doors to expats with diabetes, high-BP

199 women arrested in Oman for prostitution

Commemorations to show how Suffolk village helped Basque child refugees evacuated in Spanish Civil War

Municipalities neglect victims of human trafficking

I’m an ethnic minority in a bank. This is why I’m paid less

Ethnic minorities paid less at KPMG

FTSE 100 CEOs named Steve and David outnumber women and ethnic minority leaders combined

Deal sought on undocumented Irish

Why Irish America Is Not Evergreen

Exiled in Scotland Catalan independendist Clara Ponsati seeks refuge here from arrest warrant in Spain

Migrant death in Italy points to dire conditions in Libya

Greek police: Racist hate crimes nearly tripled in 2017

The secret history of Romani Gypsies

‘Democracy came and the baron disappeared’

Roma children systematically humiliated in Hungary’s segregated schools

A Yemeni’s harrowing journey through the ‘Gate of Tears’

Immigrants struggle for health care in Belgium

Kosovo Must Legalize Serbia’s Displaced Albanians

Italy grants 1 million Euros as aid to Sahrawi refugees

In Junot Diaz’s ‘Islandborn,’ A Curious Child Re-Creates Her Dominican Roots

A March Begins in Tawang to Mark 60th Year of Dalai Lama’s Journey to India

African asylum seekers stuck in limbo in Malta

Hungary sentences Syrian man to 7 years over migrant riot

Indigenous Yukpa face humanitarian crisis after fleeing Venezuela

Happy 100th birthday to the man who sparked movement to unite the Welsh across the world