Society / Migration

Borders kill.

Hanna Grześkiewicz reports on the humanitarian crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border.

Jake Bowers argues for the rights of travelling peoples to live and move through the landscapes they call home.

Channel pushbacks?

Call of the wild.

Images from the migrant route through Mexico, where desperate people risk a journey fraught with danger to try to make it to the US. Text and photos: Pablo Allison.

Data-snatching, AI and eye-spy: some of the new technologies undermining migrants’ rights.

Governments are increasingly using surveillance and big data to track immigrants. Gaby del Valle reports from the US, where activists are trying to hold data-mining firm Palantir to account.

Ruben Andersson traces the roots of a Freudian fixation.

Syrian artist Amel al-Zakout nearly drowned in the Mediterranean Sea after her boat capsized en route to Greece. Volunteer lifeguard Gerard Canals was part of the rescue operation. Hazel Healy put the two in touch with each other to speak for the first time since the shipwreck.

The threat of Brexit has caused great anxiety about the return of a ‘hard border’ in Ireland. Yet it’s minority communities who have the most to fear, writes Luke Butterly.

Alex Sager imagines a time when all people are free to move.

Planet earth is not the same size for everybody. This infographic shows where you can travel to without a visa, depending on your nationality.

A network of solidarity exists among and alongside those who move, and stay, without permission. Hazel Healy profiles three initiatives. ‘Is it fair that Europe walks as it wants in Africa but not the opposite?’ ‘Once you help, you cannot close your eyes’ ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’.

People have always moved and cultures have always mingled. So why the myopic obsession with borders, asks Hazel Healy.

Check your passport privilege, writes Nanjala Nyabola.

Family matters.

Matteo Salvini, Italy’s ‘refugee drowner-in-chief’, is put under the spotlight.

In 1987, the British government contracted a passenger ferry to act as a floating immigration detention centre for Tamil refugees. Later that year a storm set the ship loose from its moorings. Felix Bazalgette reports on the the little-known story of exodus and empire that paved the way for the Windrush scandal.

Vanessa Baird looks ahead at how things could be.