The number of Iraqis migrating irregularly to Europe has drastically increased between 2014 and 2015 from 1,023 arrivals in 2014 to 91,769 in 2015. At the same time, more and more Iraqis are returning from Europe to Iraq, mostly to the Kurdistan Region and Baghdad governorate, both through organised channels, such as assisted voluntary return […]
‘Sometimes I feel I don’t have a reason to wake up. It’s not that I don’t like to wake up, but there is not something to make me leave the bed. It’s better since we started having classes, this is a reason.’ 16 year old girl from Syria, accompanied. More than 20,000 refugee and migrant […]
Over 100,000 refugee and migrant children, of whom more than 33,800 unaccompanied and separated children (34%), arrived in Europe in 2016. In the first three months of 2017, 5,700 children landed on European shores. The vast majority of them entered Europe irregularly through the two main gateways to the continent: Italy, using the Central Mediterranean […]
The year 2015 has witnessed a massive escalation in the number of asylum seekers arriving in Europe and the situation has particularly deteriorated over the past month. According to UNHCR, there were 411,567 sea arrivals in Europe this year with 29,468 arrivals in the month of September alone. As large numbers of people continue to […]
