Migrants

US revokes legal status of migrants who used Biden-era app

The latest orders could affect more than 930,000 migrants

28 migrants found dead in Libya mass grave

It said the grave was found after a raid on a human trafficking site

Trump to prepare facility at Guantanamo for 30,000 migrants

US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, already houses a migrant facility - separate from the high-security US prison for foreign terrorism suspects

UK bolsters fight against migrant crossings

The interior ministry added that the government also aims over the next six months to achieve the highest rate of deportations of failed asylum seekers for five years.

We need skilled workers for higher remittance

Potential there, political will needed

Trapped in the ‘Game Ghor’

Nuruzzaman Raju owned a mobile phone repair shop in the capital’s Gulistan.

Qatar evicts hundreds of migrant workers as World Cup looms

Qatari authorities have evicted hundreds of migrant workers from buildings in central Doha, casting a new shadow over the countdown to the World Cup, residents and workers said on Saturday.

46 dead migrants found inside truck in Texas

The bodies of 46 dead migrants were discovered inside a tractor-trailer on Monday in San Antonio, Texas, city officials said, in one of the most deadly recent incidents of human smuggling along the US-Mexico border.

162 Bangladeshi migrants return home from Libya

As many as 162 Bangladeshi migrants – who were in various detention centres in Libya -- have returned home this morning (May 12, 2022).

November 12, 2015
November 12, 2015

Sweden brings in migrant border checks

Sweden announces the introduction of temporary border checks to control the flow of migrants into the country.

October 22, 2015
October 22, 2015

French port city migrants to get heated tents

Women and children at a migrant camp outside the French port city of Calais are to be given heated tents by the end of the week, officials say.

October 21, 2015
October 21, 2015

140 migrants land at UK base in Cyprus

Two boats carrying 140 migrants, including children, land at the RAF base at Akrotiri in Cyprus, the Ministry of Defence says.

October 16, 2015
October 16, 2015

EU states approve Turkey migrants deal

EU states have approved an action plan for Turkey that it is hoped will ease the flow of migrants to Europe.

October 10, 2015
October 10, 2015

Migrant surge hits Greece, UN approves action on smugglers

Greece was hit by a huge new surge in migrants as the United Nations approved a European seize-and-destroy military operation against people smugglers in the Mediterranean.

October 8, 2015
October 8, 2015

Back home, to what?

Migrants need support from the government of destination countries and Bangladesh embassies to exercise their rights and a strong reintegration mechanism when they return to Bangladesh.

October 7, 2015
October 7, 2015

EU launches operation to seize migrant smugglers' boats

The EU is beginning a new operation to intercept boats smuggling migrants across the southern Mediterranean.

October 5, 2015
October 5, 2015

Children's bodies washed up in Greece in latest migrant tragedy

The badly decomposed bodies of two children were found washed up on the Greek island of Kos on Sunday, the latest victims of a crisis that has seen 630,000 people enter the EU illegally this year.

September 24, 2015
September 24, 2015

Migrant crisis: EU to boost aid to agencies

European Union leaders pledge another €1bn (£700m, $1.1bn) to help UN agencies support Syrian refugees in the Middle East, as part of renewed efforts to tackle the EU's migrant crisis.

September 23, 2015
September 23, 2015

9 more Bangladeshis return from Malaysia

Nine more Bangladeshis, rescued by the Malaysian authorities during the Southeast Asian migrant crisis in May this year, return home