A new wave of anti-migration protests is rising currently in Ireland, one of the most stable liberal democracies that has recently developed a plan to welcome bigger numbers of migrants in the coming decades for the growth of its economy so that it has more consumers and a greater number of workers. The working class in the country which has …

Environmental changes caused by exacerbating climate conditions are amidst one of the most severe reasons leading to the choice to migrate. Persons fleeing their homes following a natural disaster or other catastrophic event caused by climate change are labeled “climate migrants”. However, under the current international legislation, the figure of “climate migrant” does not exist yet (1). As a matter …

For many years, the depiction of migration as a phenomenon was based on a male approach, as it was assumed that males migrate more than women, primarily because of financial reasons, while the woman remained in their homelands or they followed men as family dependents. That is why women’s migration is poorly documented and not adequately addressed. In the last …

Migration Crisis is becoming one of the main issues for the European Union (EU). There are growing concerns regarding the increase of asylum applications, for instance in 2022 there were 924,000 applications which shows a 50% increase since 2021.[1] Ever since the migration crisis in 2015 and now in 2022 with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the EU has been …

Even before 2000, the impact of climate change on human migration became a matter of discussion among the scientific community. Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the 1990s predicted that the destruction of the environment would lead to massive population displacement in the following years. In 2001, the World Disasters Report of the Red Cross and …

After the earthquake in 2010, Haiti, an already politically unstable country since 1991 with fragile governments, became a failed state with most of its infrastructure failing or being in ruins as a result of the natural disaster and its already poor economy being left in ruins. These conditions have created an incredibly poor and unstable society where most people aspire …

Turkey is now in election season. The upcoming elections have been set for May 14, with this possibly being the most difficult for Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. Turkey at the moment is facing one of the worst periods of its economy with inflation to make things difficult for the average household. Nevertheless, it hasn’t always been that way. When Erdogan …

At the beginning of the year, the Belgian Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration, Nicole de Moor, in cooperation with the migration services, published the immigration statistics for 2022. According to the numbers, in 2022, a 40% increase in the number of people who applied for international protection was calculated. Almost 37,000 people, mainly from Afghanistan, Syria, Palestine, Burundi, …

The opinion, unfortunately a shared argument, that asylum seekers arriving in the EU are a burden on the economies of its member States must be discredited. To think that people fleeing armed conflicts, persecution and natural disasters encounter obstacles in their attempt to find salvation is mind-boggling, but this reality has been in place since the so-called migratory crisis that …

Last week, a court case took place in Lesvos, Greece, against 24 aid workers rescuing migrants at sea. Asylum seekers were coming from Turkey after a long route from the Middle East or Africa. According to the OHCHR, the charges against humanitarian workers and volunteers that were working for a Greek NGO called Emergency Response Centre International (ERCI) are in …