The co-leader of the "Alternative for Germany" party, Alice Weidel, recently said during a television interview that the country was seeing "an explosion of foreigner criminality and migrant violence". InfoMigrants takes a look at the facts.
Sweden has announced plans to limit family reunification guidelines and potentially expand DNA testing as part of its effort to control immigration. The governing coalition has made immigration a main issue it seeks to address.
From the streets of Afghanistan into the ring. Shoaib Akhtar is not just a boxer, but also fighting his way through life into a new society. A refugee turned pro boxer. But how did he make it here in Germany?
A man who was among the survivors of a migrant shipwreck off Calabria earlier this month has been arrested on suspicion of killing a teenage Iraqi girl on board.
A total of 191 Afghan refugees arrived in Rome on June 21 from Pakistan thanks to humanitarian corridors, promoted by Sant'Egidio together with other associations and in agreement with the Italian Ministry of Interior and of Foreign Affairs.
Since the Taliban barred girls from attending secondary school and university on September 18, 2021, more than 40 girls have moved from Afghanistan to Rwanda to continue their schooling starting in early 2023, IOM stated in a release.
An exclusive report published by the German magazine Spiegel suggests that German lawmakers are in talks with Uzbekistan to send Afghan nationals back to Kabul via a stopover in Tashkent. Such a deal with the Uzbek government would allow Germany to deport Afghans without negotiating with the Taliban.
The number of people displaced globally has doubled over the past decade, according to a report published by the UN's refugee agency on June 12.
An investigation conducted by reporters at The Guardian found that hundreds of unaccompanied child migrants across Europe are reportedly being forced to work for powerful drug cartels.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said he will deport convicted criminals from Afghanistan and Syria, following last week's knife attack in Mannheim, carried out by an Afghan man. The Taliban say they are ready to begin talks with Germany over the issue.
A debate over deporting foreign nationals who commit serious crimes has been reignited in Germany after the fatal stabbing of a police officer in the city of Mannheim last week. The attacker was an Afghan national who had lived in Germany for almost 10 years.
In its latest monitoring report, the International Rescue Committee stated that 3,000 unaccompanied children arrived in Trieste via the Balkan Route last year. Nearly all were boys fleeing the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.