Unwelcome Refugees

YORGO KIRBAK- Athens In a sign that the Syrian refugee problem is worsening, 13 boats filled with 547 refugees landed on Greeces Lesbos island on Aug. 29 the biggest since the height of the crisis in 2015-16. The refugees, including 246 children, 177 men and…

ISTANBUL Turkish authorities reported a seven-fold jump in the number of migrants attempting the dangerous sea crossing from Turkey to Greece in August. This month to Aug. 28, 7,834 migrants and refugees were intercepted at sea, according to the Turkish Coas…

BERLIN, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Germans are broadly positive towards immigration and think it benefits the country, a survey showed, suggesting the often extreme reactions triggered by the arrival of a million-plus refugees there in 2015 have given way to a calmer…

ISTANBUL—Under the cover of night, Turkish police officers pushed Ahmed onto a large bus parked in central Istanbul. In the darkness, the Syrian man from Damascus could discern dozens of other handcuffed refugees being crammed into the vehicle. Many of them w…

At least 40 people are missing and feared dead after the latest wreck of a boat off the coast of Libya, according to United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR). "Terrible news coming in of potentially large loss of life in a shipwreck off the coast of Libya," Cha…

In June, President Trump promised that his administration would work to deport "millions of illegal aliens" from the U.S. via increased Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and a ramping up of Border Patrol agents. Now, Associate Professor of Anth…

An official from the UN's refugee agency has sparked controversy by expressing concern over the alleged "radicalisation of migratory dreams". Vincent Cochetel, UNHCR's special envoy for the Central Mediterranean, was commenting on the Open Arms migrant rescu…

But let me not be too hard on the Democrats the American center left because the Israeli center left has no plan on the table, either. The main Israeli center-left party, called Blue and White, is not running on a platform that even acknowledges the principle…

This article appears in VICE Magazine's Borders Issue. The edition is a global exploration of both physical and invisible borders and examines who is affected by these lines and why we've imbued them with so much power. Click HERE to subscribe to the print ed…

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