#migration

#migration

"I found something deeply healing about the Adriatic coast after everything that happened," says Ida. That same healing blue is the colour that dominates her new photography and print project Blue Valentines, a love letter to identity, migration and fractal communication through cyanotypes. "Photography, because of its widespread availability, reproducibility, and omnipresence, carries a powerful communicative potential," says Ida. "In that sense, it acts almost like the perfect migrant - a medium that can be sent anywhere across the globe, continually transforming along the way."

An attempt to promote friendship between Japan and countries in Africa has transformed into a xenophobic row about migration after inaccurate media reports suggested the scheme would lead to a flood of immigrants. The controversy erupted after the Japan International Cooperation Agency, or JICA, said this month it had designated four Japanese cities as Africa hometowns for partner countries in Africa: Mozambique, Nigeria, Ghana and Tanzania.

Ireland feels so distinctly itself, so fiercely shaped by its people, that it seems impossible to imagine it as anything but independent

Professor Sunil Amrith (Yale University, author of The Burning Earth) has written that over the last 200 years, warfare for empire or other territorial domination has been disastrous for people and the environment that sustains them. Amrith suggests that a demilitarized future is necessary for our collective well being on the planet, and that warfare is related to the greater problem of humans attempting to control nature.

For many residents of central Asian countries, Russia remains the only realistic option to earn a living abroad, given a lack of opportunities back home. A shared language, familiar bureaucracy and established migration networks made this a natural transition following the collapse of the Soviet Union. But is Russia still the safe haven for central Asian migrant workers it once was? Increasingly, the answer seems to be no.

Pope Leo XIV has articulated his priorities publicly regarding war, peace, migration, and the environment, reflecting continuity with his predecessor, Pope Francis.

Kwon offers a tender and introspective body of work shaped by the emotional landscapes of home, motherhood and migration, exploring moments that fill everyday life.

The migrants were detained Wednesday, the day the program came into force, and will be held at immigration removal centers until they are returned to France.

At least 92 people drowned when a vessel they were using to cross the Bab al-Mandab Strait sank. Most of the deceased and missing are Ethiopians.

The dispersal of archaic hominins beyond mainland Southeast Asia represents the earliest evidence for humans crossing ocean barriers to reach isolated landmasses.

40% of sexual crimes in London last year were committed by foreign nationals, according to Robert Jenrick, citing the Centre for Migration Control data.

The financial action is aimed at tackling illegal immigration to the UK and is central to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's plan to disrupt the English Channel crossings by "smashing the gangs" that are organising them.

Britain expects the EU to approve its migration returns deal with France. Some people who cross the Channel in small boats will be returned to France.

Athens has announced that it will arrest individuals entering Greece without authorization from North Africa, following a significant increase in sea arrivals from Libya.

Some arrivals would be detained and returned to France in exchange for the UK accepting an equivalent number of asylum seekers, subject to security checks.