In February last year, XChange published part 2 of our Niger report. We interviewed returning migrants transiting Niger, whose journeys had started all over Africa....
2019 has been an incredibly busy year for Xchange. Our information-gathering missions took us all around the globe, from Niger to Venezuala to Malaysia, uncovering the unique and personal experiences of life at the forefront of forced migration....
The Mediterranean has become a vast grave in recent years for thousands of people crossing to Europe, in search of a better life. An estimated 82,240 people have arrived in Europe by sea in 2019, with 1,087 confirmed deaths....
Around 2.7 billion people live in countries where being gay or lesbian is considered a crime. In many places this ‘crime’ is punishable by the confiscation of citizenship, segregation, denial of rights and decade-long prison sentences....
In 2017, Xchange conducted a cross-sectional survey to obtain first-hand data from migrants aboard the MOAS SAR vessel, The Phoenix, in the Mediterranean Sea. This is what we found....
In this survey, Xchange seeks to understand a critical component of this unprecedented exodus that has largely been overlooked: what the Rohingya understand about the proposed repatriation processes, and what they desire and fear as individuals and as a community....
February 25, 2018 marked the six-month anniversary of intensified flight from northern Rakhine State. On August 25 last year, Myanmar’s military launched renewed ‘clearance operations,’ ostensibly in response to attacks on police posts by Rohingya insurgents. Since then, 671,000 Rohingyas have fled across the border...