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Migration and development

News and comment on migration and people who migrate to and from the developing world

July 2024

  • Spanish NGO rescues 176 irregular migrants in international waters<br>CARRARA - ITALY, OCTOBER 4 : Survived migrants wait to be disembarked from the ship who were rescued by the Spanish NGO 'Open Arms' on October 4, 2023 in Carrara, Italy. About 176 migrants of 14 different nationalities from Syria, Bangladesh, Sudan, Eritrea, Palestine, Guinea, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Ghana, Egypt, Chad, Senegal and Mali were rescued by 'Open Arms' who carried out 3 rescue operations at the international waters of the Central Mediterranean sea. (Photo by Jose Colon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

    Opinion
    Don’t look away! Why writers need to shout about Africa’s migration crisis

    Samuel Kọ́láwọlé
    Many sub-Saharan Africans feel they have no choice but to leave home, myself included. I wanted them to know that their lives – and stories – matter, says novelist Samuel Kọ́láwọlé

June 2024

  • The floodlit football pitch of Las Madres Dragonas de Lavapiés in Madrid. The club plays under a mural that has the message: ‘Socially equally, totally free’.

    The Guardian picture essay
    Levelling the playing field: the football clubs helping migrants make a new home in Spain

    Every year thousands arrive from South America and Africa, including many young asylum seekers who find hope and opportunity in the game
  • An Indian woman squats down beside a big pile of clay and a mould, with stacks of finished bricks behind her

    Too ill to work, too poor to get better: how debt traps families working at India’s kilns

    Forced to travel far to find gruelling work making bricks, women and children fall sick but cannot access healthcare
  • A man in a hi-vis vest seen from behind as he picks rubbish amid some trees

    Rights and freedom
    Saudi Arabia accused of using forced labour ahead of Fifa World Cup decision

    Union’s claim of ‘epidemic of migrant worker abuses’ could force Fifa to reject state as 2034 host if it fails to meet rights obligations

May 2024

  • A Rohingya family reaches the Bangladesh border after crossing a creek of the Naf river

    Who are the Rohingya and what is happening in Myanmar?

    Fresh outbreak of violence after decades of ethnic tensions has prompted tens of thousands of people to flee to Bangladesh
  • A small boat full of people at sea.

    The future of work
    Soaring number of migrants trapped in Yemen face abuse and starvation, say NGOs

    Urgent funding needed to help people return home as humanitarian crisis reaches critical levels, according to migration organisation
  • People standing next to dozens of candles with childish cutouts seen hanging from string

    Rights and freedom
    Hundreds of potentially trafficked children ‘abandoned by Home Office’

    Exclusive: 1,871 possible trafficking or modern slavery victims left open to exploitation after falling out of UK system, FoI data reveals

April 2024

  • A former domestic worker in Beirut. About 250,000 African and Asian migrant women work in Lebanon. An average of two domestic workers a week die there.

    The future of work
    ‘Every day I cry’: 50 women talk about life as a domestic worker under the Gulf’s kafala system

  • The audience at the Complexe Culturel Leopold Sedar Senghor watches the film in Pikine, Senegal.

    Moving pictures: travelling cinema takes stories of ‘departures and dreams’ to Senegal

March 2024

  • Protesters in masks and suits waving wads of fake cash and carrying placards in Spanish while others wave Panama's flag

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Green power: young environmentalists look to shake up Panama’s politics

  • Sabir Ahmed, 65, sits outside Dhaka airport after being deported from Saudi Arabia

    Rights and freedom
    Used, abused and deported: migrant workers land back in Bangladesh after Saudi dreams turn sour

  • A group of mourners around a coffin at a funeral

    Rights and freedom
    ‘Why should fit young men be dying?’: migrant worker deaths spark concerns over Saudi Arabia World Cup

  • Lines of south Asian men under lights clutching papers

    Rights and freedom
    Sexual exploitation drives 37% rise in profits from forced labour, ILO says

  • Muddy roads, angry farmers and civil war: one man’s epic run from Cape Town to London

  • The future of work
    Rape and sexual harassment reported by foreign care workers across UK

  • No crops, no brides: how rising seas are killing India’s coastal villages

  • Rights and freedom
    Detained, trafficked, exploited: the plight of lone child migrants stranded in Tunisia

  • Rights and freedom
    ‘They can’t grieve’: families in limbo as Channel boat victims left unidentified

February 2024

  • Video still with blurred out images of a group of men stripped down to their underwear at the border of Serbia and North Macedonia

    Rights and freedom
    Videos show migrants stripped of clothing in freezing temperatures at Serbian border

  • Desecheo Island on the Mona Passage viewed from a helicopter flight with the US Coast Guard to Mona Island in Puerto Rico, 9 January 2024.

    The future of work
    Six-metre waves, strong currents, small boats: why thousands brave the Mona Passage to Puerto Rico

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