The 27th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Cop27, has recently come to an end after several days of negotiations in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. The conference gathered representatives from nearly 200 countries, who sought to coordinate global climate...
Article by Andrea Amato Refugee communities, including asylum seekers and irregular migrants, comprise particular mental health concerns that merit international attention and support. At the end of 2021, there was an estimated total of 4.3 million individuals reported as stateless (UNHCR, 2022). Whilst these individuals are...
Climate change may become the defining crisis of our time and disaster displacement will likely become one of its most prevalent consequences. ...
In 2015, over 1 million migrants arrived irregularly in Europe, a fourfold increase on the previous year. With numbers steadily dropping since then, this article scrutinises the European domestic and international political toolkit for migration policies – particularly examining the consequences for rights and development...
Marie is a Cameroonian woman who dreamed of a fresh start in Switzerland. Marie attended secondary school in Cameroon and started working in trade shortly after graduating. She had always dreamed of exciting job prospects abroad having heard from friends of the better standard of...
"Your wife is not here!" John is a Nigerian man who travelled to Libya with his wife. He began his journey in late 2016. He spent six months in Sabratha, a coastal city in Libya and one of the major embarkation points for boats carrying migrants to...
To find out more about life in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, listen to a recent podcast by Gordon Watson of MOAS. He interviewed Xchange's GIS Analyst and Bangladesh team leader, Pablo Gallego, about his time conducting surveys in the camps. For more information on...
British Prime Minister Theresa May has begun forming her cabinet – appointing a new Foreign Secretary was on the top of her to-do list. Britain will need a strong figure to negotiate its exit from the EU- May has declared Boris Johnson is the man...
Turkey will miss an end of June deadline to meet the EU’s conditions for securing visa-free travel throughout the Schengen zone. This was confirmed by the European commission following the issuing of a progress report on the controversial migration deal. The next report is due...