Migrants’ Party

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1941 June 14: Soviet Mass Deportations from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

June 21: National Indigenous Peoples Day, Canada

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Kristy Yang, First Hmong-American Woman Judge in U.S., Will Keynote WWOCN Conference

Iranian refugee dies of apparent suicide in Nauru camp

Why the Iceland National Team Has So Many Polish Fans

A Visa Lottery Winner a Decade Ago, a U.S. Soldier Returns Home to Lithuania

Russian dissidents find refuge in Lithuania

Finnish citizen ‘first European woman to get driving licence’ in Saudi Arabia

Finland’s first terror attack: Life sentence for Turku stabber

Record number of foreign residents get Finnish citizenship in 2017

Stranded ship with 629 refugees to be taken to Valencia

Barcelona offers to take in 100 refugees from Aquarius ship

Basque region offers to host rescued Aquarius migrants

Student In Turkey ‘Tricked Back’ To Turkmenistan And Imprisoned

‘We felt Ireland forced us out, we felt betrayed’

Landslides and Flooding Threaten 200,000 Rohingya Refugees as Monsoon Rains Lash Into Bangladesh Camps

Leave now, pay later migration scams lure somali teens to their deaths

Welsh children being sent to prisons in England are lonely and isolated

Sweden jails man for spying on exiled Tibetans for China

Indian sellers using Estonian e-residency to access European markets, PayPal system

Sikhs abroad feel Khalistan narrative meant to marginalise

Jonathan Lee: Antigypsyism is a cancer at the heart of Europe

Young Gypsies and Travellers launch activist network at Appleby fair

Exiled as a child, Sahrawi grandmother still longs for home

Mauritania’s ‘nomadic spirit’ comes alive in Canadian restaurant

1st Tibetan-Canadian elected to public office in North America reflects on humble beginnings in Canada

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Due to recurring severe technical issues Migrants’ Party cannot publish news this week.

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1941 June 14: Soviet Mass Deportations from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

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Liberia Diaspora Engagement Program Reactivated

Hmong: A History of Relocation

Thailand cuts number of berry pickers to Finland – after last year’s human trafficking scandal

Study: Immigrant, disabled women face three times as much violence as others in Finland

America’s cruel history of separating children from their parents

“Breaking the Bee” filmmaker on why Indian-Americans dominate spelling bees

Myanmar Is Intensifying Violence Against Ethnic Minorities, U.S. Says

Never As Many Children With Foreign Background In Iceland

Austria plans to cut benefits for non-German speaking immigrants

Austria calls for overhaul of EU free movement

A French-Rwandan Rap Star Turned Novelist From Burundi

Biafran War Memories: Why young Africans need to know their history

Switzerland launches program to test AI for refugee integration

Indigenous Guatemalan woman shot dead by US Border Patrol

The future of Europe’s elections will be all about migration, foreign minister says

Trump Officials, Moving to Break Up Migrant Families, Blame Democrats

Trump admin: Parents must be fingerprinted to get back migrant kids

Surge in migrant children at government shelters as Trump admin pushes ‘zero tolerance’

Hungary to criminalise migrant helpers in crackdown

Paris Police Clear Out 1,500 People From the City’s Largest Migrant Camp

Transgender migrant from Honduras dies in U.S. custody

Denmark joins some European nations in banning burqa, niqab

Theme of kindness for Samoan Language Week

Attu descendants visit their ancestral home for the first time

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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