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Global migration

  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    Italy
    Indian worker’s death exposes plight of migrant labour in Italy

    Satnam Singh died after having his arm severed by a machine on a farm near Rome

    Workers in a vineyard near Rome
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    OutlookAmy Kazmin
    Italian schools struggle to make migrant pupils feel at home

    The country needs to utilise the human capital of its nearly 900,000 foreign pupils

    Iqbal Masih school in Milan
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Ecuador suspends visa deal with China as migrants surge

    South American country has become popular starting point for Chinese people heading to US

    Aerial view of migrants walking by the jungle near Bajo Chiquito village, the first border control of the Darién Province in Panama
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    US immigration
    Biden opens green card path to undocumented spouses of US citizens

    Sweeping reform offers route to eventual citizenship and protection from deportation for 550,000 people

    Two women raise their right hands while holding a pamphlet with the naturalisation oath at a citizenship ceremony in New Jersey
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Stephen Bush
    Neither politicians nor the public think straight on immigration

    The problem is that voters aren’t willing to pay for a policy they say really matters to them

    Ewan White illustration of bricklayers building a wall in a desert.
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    ReviewTelevision
    Dead Calm: Killing in the Med? — the a migrant boat disaster that became a Greek tragedy

    Rigorous BBC2 documentary suggests the Greek coast guard helped cause the 2023 sinking, with the loss of nearly 650 lives

    A blue-painted boat heavily crowded with people sails across blue water
  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    The best books of the week
    How should migration be managed?

    As the global movement of people prompts hardline approaches by populists and policymakers, four new books explore the west’s struggle to balance domestic pressures with the plight of asylum-seekers

    A man in a hat and with  a bag and blanket on his back watches a heavy-goods train passing
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    The State of Britain
    Labour has political headroom on immigration. How will it use it? Premium content

    Also in this week’s newsletter, cuts to youth services in England and Wales and their impact

  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
    The far-right threat that heightens Europe’s immigrant dilemma

    The need for overseas workers forces governments to ever-greater heights of hypocrisy

    Giorgia Meloni posts her voting slip in a ballot box
  • Monday, 10 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Rishi Sunak to put tax cuts at centre of Tory election manifesto

    Prime minister tries to get on front foot after faltering start to campaign

    Rishi Sunak smiling during an interview with Nick Robinson on the Panorama television programme
  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
    John Kampfner
    Canada’s immigration model is coming under strain

    Until now its brand of multiculturalism has set an example to the rest of the developed world

    Robson Street in Vancouver.
  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    Camilla Cavendish
    The immigration mess is a nightmare for both the Tories and Labour

    Nigel Farage’s return to frontline politics puts pressure on the main parties

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of many coloured crossed hands in the shape of birds in the sky above the rooftops
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    US Election Countdown
    What’s the economic impact of restricting US immigration?

    Also in today’s newsletter, a tale of two economies in Michigan

    Migrants seeking asylum in the US are watched by Texas agents next to the border wall in El Paso
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    German politics
    Germany to deport Afghans and Syrians convicted of serious crimes

    Chancellor Olaf Scholz toughens up deportation policy after series of security incidents

    German Chancellor Olaf Scholz addresses the Bundestag in Berlin on Thursday
  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Sunak and Starmer clash on tax and immigration in testy TV debate

    Party leaders repeatedly interrupt each other but snap poll gives PM a much-needed win

    Sir Keir Starmer, left, and Rishi Sunak faced each other in an hour-long encounter in Manchester broadcast by ITV
  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
    US immigration
    Biden tightens US immigration rules with limit on asylum seekers

    Surge in border crossings from Mexico has become potent political campaign issue for Donald Trump

    Migrants wearing wristbands with barcodes are scanned in Eagle Pass, Texas, before boarding a state-sponsored bus to New York
  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Sunak faces Tory backlash over proposal to toughen ECHR stance

    Ministers and MPs warn threat to leave European court imperils Good Friday Agreement

    James Cleverly
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Tories promise to introduce an annual cap on migration

    Rishi Sunak steers Conservatives towards radical policies on divisive issues in face of devastating polls

    Rishi Sunak gives a press conference
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    German politics
    German policeman’s killing deepens political chasm ahead of EU vote

    Far right Alternative for Germany seizes on crime perpetrated by Afghan migrant to stoke fear

    Police standing between protesters
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Labour’s pledge to cut immigration tightens party’s fiscal straitjacket

    Ultra-cautious policy approach carries risks of its own if Starmer makes it into No 10

  • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Labour’s pledge to cut work visas worries business

    Employers nervous that potential curbs would make it harder for them to hire from abroad

    Keir Starmer
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    Ivan Krastev
    The European elections will be a rough ride for the political mainstream

    Parties of the far right are set to prosper, but will also face challenges of their own

    Montage of an array of hands holding ballot papers againstthe background of an EU flag
  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
    National Health Service
    Nursing vacancies in England fall to record low

    NHS recruitment drive boosts number of overseas staff but domestic enrolments lag behind, say analysts

    Overseas nurses being trained by the NHS
  • Tuesday, 28 May, 2024
    News in-depthUK universities
    Essex university’s success story stymied by politics of immigration

    Overseas enrolments plummet amid government’s hostile tone, sparking financial uncertainty

    Essex university students at a graduation ceremony in New Delhi
  • Monday, 27 May, 2024
    InterviewEU immigration
    Albanian PM says migration deal with Italy is ‘one-off’

    Edi Rama dashes hopes of other rightwing governments in Europe outsourcing asylum to Balkan nation

    The Albanian prime minister Edi Rama
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