Migrants’ Party

Stop voting for people who you are not

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Between Fleeing and Turning Away


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Canada apologises for turning away Jewish refugee ship in 1939

Wife of Jagtar Singh Johal speaks out about their 12-month ordeal

UK Government Unveils Monument Commemorated to Sikh Soldiers of WWI

Moldova fights brain drain with tech startups, social activism

Five Hmong lawmakers, two judges elected in metro area

Thousands of Uyghurs, Tibetans and other communities marching to highlight human rights situation in China

Why Chinese civil servants are happy to occupy Uyghur homes in Xinjiang

Sweden develops plans to increase its international recruitment

Somalia: Upsurge in violence triggers new wave of displacement

France and Comoros agree to end migration row

AU Commission provides symbolic donation to Sahrawi refugees

Researching migration in Mongolia

Why do Kurds continue to flee Iraq’s Kurdish region?

Croatia, criminalisation of solidarity

Rihanna Flies to Barbados To Celebrate Grandpa’s 90th

Rohingya refugee attempts suicide as repatriation fears rise

Kosovo-born Shaqiri left out by Liverpool for game in Serbia

Why Are People Fleeing Central America? A New Breed of Gangs Is Taking Over.

Bosnia struggles with return of ISIS widows

Migrants, the EU passes the buck to Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ecuador’s Rafael Correa requests asylum in Belgium: report

Þorleifur Örn Arnarsson Named Theater Director of the Year in Germany

The Catalan Revolution of English Football

How to Become Catalan

Rapper Valtònyc’s extradition decision delayed due to legal query

Overcoming a language barrier – My experience as an au pair

Yazidis fear ‘IS’ radicals in Greek refugee camp

Sinjar: Three years on, Yazidis have nowhere to return

Ukrainian court orders that rights activist persecuted in Russia for pro-Ukraine views be granted asylum

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Identity Vaccine Against Discrimination


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Student who fled conflict named Scottish Apprentice of the Year

Days and places that shaped exile of Catalan leaders, one year on

Exiled rapper appeals to Strasbourg court over freedom of expression case

They Escaped China’s Crackdown, but Now Wait in Limbo

OECD blacklists 21 countries running high-risk golden passport schemes

Papuan children sent to Indonesia to be converted to Islam

Beaten and passports thrown away in Greece, 44 Ezidis deported to Erbil

Britain’s Jews Hold Vigils Amid Rising Anxiety About Anti-Semitism

Bosnia Moving To Avert Migrant ‘Crisis’ As Cold Weather Sets In

Video: ‘Everyday Racism’ campaign sheds light on ethnic minority discrimination in Hong Kong

Minority children with a strong sense of ethnic-racial identity are more resilient to harms of discrimination, study finds

Rwandan man faces death if he is deported from South Africa

Bangladesh, Myanmar agree to begin Rohingya repatriation by mid-November

Myanmar officials try to convince Rohingya to return, accept ID cards

Ethiopian Marathoner Returns From Self-Imposed Exile

Exiled Ex-President of the Maldives Has Returned in the Wake of His Rival’s Election Loss

New influx of Hmong-American legislators appears likely

Children will be brought to Australia from Nauru, but they won’t be allowed to stay

Unemployment Is Haunting Sweden Years After the Immigration Boom

Hungary’s top court acquits camerawoman who kicked migrants

Stalin deported 100,000 Ukrainians to Siberia and Kazakhstan in October 1947

Samoa to tighten adoption laws to counter slave labour

The sea takes migrants and brings back bodies

New migrant caravan departs El Salvador for U.S.

New Irish language classes for children in London

Iran Accused of Plot to Assassinate Dissident in Denmark

Five Ways to Entice Ukrainians to Come Home

Almost 1.53 million IDPs registered in Ukraine

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dignity and safe home


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Drug coverage lack makes Estonian girl medical refugee

Puigdemont’s decision to go to Belgium was ‘intelligent,’ says his lawyer

Haley demands UN punish Cuba, Bolivia after ‘mob scene’ at US event for Cuban political prisoners

After 700 years in Latvia, Baltic Germans vanished in a matter of weeks

Vantaa boosts language training for immigrant-background youngsters

China’s Government Has Ordered a Million Citizens to Occupy Uighur Homes

Three Australians were detained in China’s re-education camps in the past year

Two Venezuelans die attempting to reach Aruba by boat

Around 35 Tibetan NGO activists detained after protests against Chinese delegation in Delhi

Tibet: Parliament in Exile in Unofficial Talks with Chinese Government

Rohingya deserve dignity and a safe home

Klimkin points to potential dangers for Ukrainians staying in Belarus

Lukashenka Repeats Fake News On ‘150K Ukrainian Refugees In Belarus’ At Meeting With Poroshenko

Nicki Minaj contributing to relief efforts after her native Trinidad is devastated by floods

Migrant Caravan’s journey, in photos

Mediterranean Migrant Arrivals Reach 91,093 in 2018; Deaths Reach 1,852

Black and Indigenous: prisoners of mixed heritage face institutional ignorance

Neo-Nazi C14 vigilantes appear to work with Kyiv police in latest ‘purge’ of Roma

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52% mull leaving


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Celebrating the Hmong New Year

Malaysia’s Mahathir: Uighurs freed because they did nothing wrong

Uighur Americans Speak Against China’s Internment Camps. Their Relatives Disappear.

Trump increases deportations to Mauritania, where slavery dominates culture

Qatar demands release of four Qataris disappeared in Saudi Arabia

Muslim war heroine could be first ethnic minority to front £50 note

Blessings From Beijing: Inside China’s Soft-Power War on Tibet

Ukrainian seasonal workers struggling to get paid

Man City defender Vincent Kompany’s father elected Belgium’s first black mayor

Albania migration trends change, 52 percent mull leaving

EU launches mobility partnership with Belarus

Chef of Berber Street Food Has the West Village Wrapped Around Her Finger

Pressure mounts on Australia over child refugees held in Nauru

Another migrant caravan marching to US

Migrant caravan heads north as Trump threatens to stop aid to Honduras

Russians moving into occupied Crimea now form one-fifth of its population

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A miracle and the sparks


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1492 October 12: Indigenous Peoples’ Day

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Brilliant, Black and Welsh: A celebration of 100 African Caribbean and African Welsh people

News programme on conditions for foreign workers in Iceland sparks outrage

Crowdfunding helps homeless woman with dementia return to Lithuania

Guinea-Bissau coast guard fears 60 migrants drowned off the coast

Kurd burns himself to death as Erdogan visits Berlin

South Sudan signs the 1951 Refugee Convention

Council Of Europe Urges Croatia To Probe Reports Of Police Violence Against Migrants

164 immigrants from Guatemala, Honduras arrested in Arizona

U.S. judge blocks TPS terminations for immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua

A miracle in the Middle East

The U.S. Government Is Moving Hundreds of Migrant Children to Tent Cities in the Middle of the Night

13,000 migrant children in detention: America’s horrifying reality

Do Migrant Teenagers Have Abortion Rights? Two Volatile Issues Collide in Court

Timeline: Hmong

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migration mess messier


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September 26: European Day of Languages

1492 October 12: Indigenous Peoples’ Day

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People more likely to migrate from small cities than large ones

About 20,000 Latvian nationals lived in Ireland in 2016

Panama revokes registration of last migrant rescue ship in central Mediterranean

Anti-Terror Police Raid British Sikhs Over ‘Extremist Activity’

Migrant Workers Hit Hard By Hurricane Florence

In Madrid, a Roma community prepares for relocation

Trump Officials Urge End of Time Limits on Detaining Migrant Children

On French Indian Ocean island, Europe’s migrant crisis bites

What EU migration has done for the UK

Uyghur Man Under Direct Threat of Deportation from United Arab Emirates

EU Migrant Workers Contribute Thousands More to U.K. Than Average Citizens, Report Says

Son of Former Guinea President Charged with Enslaving Girl

Greece’s Biggest Migrant Camp Is a Mental Health Crisis, Aid Groups Say

Workers in Qatar World Cup final city unpaid for months

EU push to clean up migration mess only makes it messier

Reciprocal Access to Tibet: US To Deny Entry To Chinese Officials If Americans Not Allowed In Tibet

Spain Now Sees More Migrant Arrivals Than Any Other European Country

Dutch Kurd who joined YPG now faces trial

Western Australian skilled migration occupation list

Thousands apply to move and work in Estonia thanks to Career Hunt

Estonia is making it easy for people to get ‘e-residency,’ and it’s offsetting a dangerous demographic time bomb

Pope Francis becomes an Estonian e-resident

The most common Mediterranean migration paths into Europe have changed since 2009

Spain’s Basque region woos professional exiles as Brexit nears

Nicaraguan Migrants Fleeing Turmoil Test Costa Rica’s Good Will

Belarus Detains Tajik Soccer Player Banned Because Of His Beard

British Man Tells About Two Years He Spent In Belarusian Prison

Fifty thousand Syrians returned to Syria from Lebanon this year

Yemenis find refuge, little else, in Djibouti’s Obock camp

Yazidis in Turkey are still awaiting their fate

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European Day of Languages Next Week


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September 26: European Day of Languages

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Skilled migrants treated as terror risks win Home Office case

Moscow Writer Claims Crimean Tatars Destabilizing Uzbekistan

Law grad who hopes to become ‘first Romani female barrister in England’ launches crowdfunding appeal to help cover BPTC fees

Lincoln Latvians Celebrate 100th Anniversary of Independence

Three in four London students ‘from ethnic minorities by 2030’

Police facing uphill battle in attempt to recruit ethnic minorities and women

“We Tibetans long to go back and rebuild Tibet”: His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Sweden

Chinese Spy Arrested from Tibetan settlement in Delhi

Blue Mountains Council flying the flag in support of Tibetan community

Lithuania recruits guest workers, leaves identity crisis for later

They survived hell, now reluctant returnees help tackle Gambia’s migrant problem

UN calls for genocide tribunal over Rohingya crisis

Central Asians celebrate Chuseok at ‘home away from home’

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European Day of Languages Nearing


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September 26: European Day of Languages

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British universities want foreign students to stay back in the UK after graduation

At Berber Street Food, a Chef Centers the Global Influence of African Food

‘Tibetan refugees down from 1.5 lakh to 85,000 in 7 years’

Tibetan Refugees Aim to Return and Restore Tibet: Dalai Lama

Tibetan protests at UN highlight deteriorating Human Rights situation in Tibet

Escape from Xinjiang: Muslim Uighurs speak of China persecution

Increasing Uyghur activism abroad against abuses in Xinjiang

UK-based Georgian singer Katie Melua set for Tbilisi open-air show

13-Year-Old Kurdish-American Boy Becomes Entrepreneur

Six Kurds elected to Swedish parliament

Nearly 28,000 expats arrested in Oman in 2017

Rough sleeping and racism: Refugees struggle in Belgium

Despite Reforms, Qatar’s Migrant Workers Still Fear Exploitation

Worker at Arizona Center for Migrant Children Is Convicted of Sexual Abuse

Number of migrant children in federal shelters hits record, as facilities near capacity

More Migrant Families, and Guatemalans, Are Trying to Enter the U.S.

Irish high schools offer Lithuanian and Korean foreign language courses

Soldier who fought for Ukraine in Donbas extradited to Russia

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Lures and Surprises vary by Ethnicity


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Immigration officials asking sex workers for ‘coffee and a chat’

OECD blames Finland’s home care allowance for poor integration of immigrant women, children

Sweden about to deport a Uyghur family to Xinjiang

A Town Hall in London Hoists the Tibetan Flag for the First Time

Kurds in US demand right to vote in Kurdistan Region elections

At Transfer Time in Lithuania, Prospects and Profits Collide

Hmong Farmers Drive Local Food Economy in Minnesota

Pay of NHS doctors varies by ethnic group

No senior black or ethnic minority officers in police force

Dominica Remains the Best Economic Citizenship Option for Expats

From architecture to chocolate farming in Costa Rica

Belgium faces reckoning over racism after two high-profile cases shock country

Luxembourg lures asset managers ahead of Brexit

Sierra Leone’s Kamara says Euro 2004 winner motivated him over Greece move

A new scramble for Africa has begun

Punishing tax stops refugees studying at Hungarian universities

Nine things that are sure to surprise you about moving to Switzerland

US resettles displaced South Sudanese to improve security in camps

World Nomad Games Kick Off In Kyrgyzstan

El Salvador: 3 kids separated in US were abused at Arizona shelters

Expatriates praise lifting exit permit system in Qatar

Thousands of migrants trapped in middle of escalating Libyan violence

Migrant detention centres in Libya unable to cope amid fighting

International Criminal Court rules it can investigate alleged crimes against the Rohingya in Burma

Chechen refugee forcibly disappeared after being unlawfully deported from Poland

Relatives of the young men who recently attacked Chechen police officers have been forced to flee the republic

Mediterranean Death Rate Is Highest Since 2015 Migration Crisis

Trump Administration Proposes Rule To Allow Longer Detention Of Migrant Children

A Toddler’s Death Adds To Concerns About Migrant Detention

Europe Benefits by Bankrolling an Anti-Migrant Effort. Niger Pays a Price

Brazil sends troops to Venezuela border as migrant crisis worsens

Foster Parents And Migrant Kids

German Politicians Call for Surveillance of Anti-Immigrant Party

New Zealand journalist reprimanded for interviewing refugee on Nauru

Adrià Carrasco, exiled activist: ‘We are being used as scapegoats to scare people’

How Russia is trying to erase Crimean Tatar Muslims

No Ukrainian school left in Russian-occupied Crimea – media

Sending Crimean political prisoners to Russia is a war crime

Ukrainian Activist Flees Crimea Under Pressure From Russian Authorities

Occupied Donetsk: re-settlement of Russian “immigrants”, all-pervasive fear & ecological disaster

Sentsov tells about his health, asks to write him letters more often

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As Europe’s empathy for refugees wanes


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August 30: International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances

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Immigrants Are One Fifth of Icelandic Labour Market

To be a Good Estonian; is to Sing… Estonian Life

China’s Muslim Crackdown Extends to Those Living Abroad

‘An information black hole’: Exiled Muslim Uighurs fear for loved ones back home as China tightens its grip on Xinjiang

MEP Thomas Mann to open exhibition titled ‘Tibetans in Diaspora: A success story’ in European Parliament

Ex-Kurdish Party MP Seeks Asylum in Greece

20 Kurds compete to gain seats in upcoming Sweden parliamentary elections

Remigration pilot project has brought 64 families back to Latvia

Asylum seekers in Austria to be denied apprenticeships

Asian expat killed, three injured in mall escalator accident in Oman

Yazidis seek church asylum as Europe’s empathy for refugees wanes

Moscow Works Hard To Block Syrian Circassians From Returning To Their Homeland And To Russify Those Who Do – OpEd

Denmark to cut English-language university places

Inept lies after Ukraine illegally hands journalist & Erdogan critic over to Turkey

‘The disappeared’ – the hidden part of Russia’s hybrid deportation of the Crimean Tatars

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