Tag: Migrant
Migrant workers who transformed China now struggling to survive
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Millions of migrant workers helped transform China from an agrarian economy into a manufacturing giant, but most have yet to see major changes in their own living conditions. Unequal distribution of benefits and precarious working conditions mean most remain in jobs well past the statutory retirement age. This Post story is reported by Mia Nulimaimaiti and…
Desperate journeys – the migrant trail across Italy and France – BBC News
Italy’s prime minister has warned that Europe will be overwhelmed by migration unless the EU finds solutions. Most of the people smugglers’ boats carrying migrants into Europe arrive in Italy. More than 130,000 people have arrived there so far in 2023, almost double the number who arrived the year before. Many of the migrants aim to move on from Italy, travelling north to counties such…
Inside the Italian migrant camp ‘threatening the EU’s future’ – BBC News
The Mediterranean is once again a hotspot for illegal crossings and people smugglers. The focus is on Lampedusa, an island that belongs to Italy but is closer to North Africa. Thousands have been arriving there in small boats – often at risk of drowning. BBC Newsnight were the first international journalists inside the island’s migrant camp since the recent surge in arrivals. Newsnight’s International Correspondent…
Greece migrant boat disaster leaves at least 79 dead and hundreds missing – BBC News
At least 79 people have died and more than 100 have been rescued after their fishing boat sank off southern Greece. But survivors have suggested as many as 750 people may have been packed on to the boat, with reports of 100 children in the hold. Greece says it is one of its biggest ever migrant tragedies, and has declared three days of mourning. Please…
Three days of mourning in Greece after migrant boat disaster – BBC News
Three days of mourning has been declared in Greece after at least 79 migrants died when the boat they were in capsized. Survivors from the fishing boat that sank off southern Greece in one of Europe’s worst migrant disasters say up to 100 children may have been on board. But scores more could still be missing at sea, with reports suggesting that up to 750…
Is the UK’s illegal migrant crackdown working? – BBC Newsnight
The UK government has previously claimed some success in getting the numbers of illegal migrants down, but what headway, if any, have they made on sorting out what they’ve termed a “broken” asylum system? More than 1,400 people have been detected crossing the English channel in a period of four days. The Illegal Migration Bill, which aims to deport those arriving in the UK without…