Riot police officers clash with refugees headed to Northern Europe outside a camp in the town of Diavata in northern Greece. The EU reached a deal with Turkey in 2016 that saw a decrease in the number of people crossing over to Greece. Under the deal, anyone who arrives on Greek islands must be returned to Turkey unless they qualify for asylum. In recent months, the campaign group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has reported allegations of violence at the Greece-Turkey land border as refugees and migrants are "pushed back" into Turkey by the Greek authoritiesImage by Alexandros Avramidis / Reuters
Costa Ricans march in San Jose in protest against the arrival of Nicaraguan refugees who fled from unrest in their country. This decade is marked by the vociferous rise to power of the Far Right political parties and the resurgence of nationalism in many countries in EU and elsewhere. Citizens across the European countries surveyed believe their country should allow fewer immigrants into their country or none at all. Though opinions are somewhat divided over the impact of immigration on crime, a majority now say that immigration increases the risk of terrorism. Image by Juan Carlos Ulate/Reuters
Migrants and locals are invited to partake of a meal on a 270-meter long table in front of St Peter’s Basilica in Rome. The initiative, called ‘Italian Dinner without Walls’ is intended to send out a message of solidarity and inclusion to the nation. Italy’s populist government has repeatedly declared Italian waters closed to NGO rescue vessels. As a result, several boats have been left stranded at sea, with many migrants dead as they attempt to reach Italy from Libya. Since mid-2017, the number of migrant journeys has declined dramatically because Italy has engaged Libyan forces to stop migrants from setting off or to return them to Libya if found at sea—a policy condemned by human rights organisations.Image by Simona Granati - Corbis//Getty Images
A view of Zaatari refugee camp in north Jordan. The past two years have witnessed a new form of manipulation by refugee-hosting countries such as Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. They adopt policies to extract revenue from western countries and organisations to maintain refugees within its borders. Turkey was able to secure an unprecedented sum of 6 billion euros in 2016, as well as other concessions, in return for keeping Syrian refugees within its borders. A Jordanian official was quoted as saying that they should have blackmailed the EU like Turkey did. Image by Valery SharifulinTASS via Getty Images
A Venezuelan family from Aragua state poses for a picture after they obtained refugee status or temporary residence, through the Federal Police and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), at the Pacaraima border control, Roraima state, Brazil. More than 4 million Venezuelans suffering from political chaos, food shortages and hyperinflation have left the country. Mostly families who feel they have no choice but to go by foot, they end up walking for hundreds of miles Image by Nacho Doce /Reuters
Twenty-five-year-old Afghani refugee Qudratullah Hotak trains with Germans at the training workshop of Ford Motor Co in Cologne, Germany. He was one among a few chosen for Ford Germany"s Equipment Qualification (EQ) programme, which integrates migrants in a booming labour market. Germany spent a record 23 billion euros ($25.65 billion) last year on helping to integrate more than 1 million refugees and fighting the root causes of migration abroad, with measures aimed at keeping migrants outside the European Union and improving living conditions in their home countries.Image by Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters
As an act of protest against the US regime’s ‘purposefully’ cruel family separations, immigrant rights advocates in the US put up two dozen startling art installations in carefully chosen landmark locations, featuring a chain-link cage, a foil-wrapped "child," and harrowing audio of real-life kids sobbing. It called for an end to the suffering of over 3,000 migrant children who remain penned like animals in cages, sleeping alone under 68-cent blankets in freezing cells in US Border Patrol custody. Image by Spencer Platt /Getty Images
A businessman flips through a newspaper at a cafe during the morning rush-hour in London. Britain’s 3.7 million EU citizens have begun applying for ‘settled status’ to remain in the country after Brexit. Potentially, tens of thousands of vulnerable EU citizens, without help, may risk not securing their status. The migrants most affected by Brexit will be Europeans—those living in the UK or who want to work there. People who have been residents in Britain are likely to be allowed to stay, but low-skilled migrants hoping to move to the UK can expect to find it harder to get in the door. According to Home Office figures, merely 312 refugees entered Britain by crossing the English Channel in 2018 Image by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images
Protesters march to the Central Government Offices in Hong Kong, calling on Chief Executive Carrie Lam to resign, after flooding the streets for days, protesting against the city’s proposed extradition treaty with mainland China. The reason: If the bill becomes law, it can be misused by Chinese allies to extradite political refugees. And there are many in Hong Kong.Image by Dickson Lee/South China Morning Post via Getty Images
Rohingya refugees construct reinforcements to prevent landslides ahead of the monsoon season at a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Claiming to conduct a “clearance operation” to rid the country of militants, the Myanmar military killed thousands of Rohingya civilians, raped hundreds of Rohingya women and girls and burnt entire villages to the ground in 2017. In reality, they are suspected of fulfilling a supposed long-standing dream of Myanmar’s Buddhist nationalists: The ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslims. Most Rohingya live as refugees in Bangladesh, which is struggling to provide for the needs of refugees. Myanmar refuses to take the steps necessary to ensure the safe and voluntary return of the Rohingya to their homes in Rakhine State.Image by Mohammad Ponir Hossain /Reuters
