The escalating debate over people leaving their home countries for new ones has sparked increasing opposition and reservations among the UN's 193 member states.
A majority of UN states have adopted a non-binding global pact to better handle migrant flows, though fewer governments joined than had previously worked on the proposal.
The people moving from one place to another are described in several ways, some portraying them as victims, some as outsiders. The list of terminology is long and here are the ones that are used the most.
The number of children crossing borders unaccompanied has risen up to five times since 2012. Here’s a quick look at the IFRC’s findings on the danger faced by young migrants and refugees.
The United Nations Migration Pact is the first international document to establish principles for dealing with refugees and migrants and the US wants nothing to do with it.
The worst of the refugee crises might be over, but migrants seeking a better life are finding new ways to Europe.
The plight of refugees under Italy's right wing government is only getting worse.
The government is introducing a series of laws to regulate life in migrant-heavy neighbourhoods it labels as ghettos, but some residents feel it is another push to make them feel less at home in their own country.
Trump’s Muslim ban complicates the recently signed Australia-US refugee deal – and Australia complicates it further by denying journalists and rights activists entry to the contentious Manus Island detention centre.
Refugees and migrants are moving through Bosnia and Herzegovina to avoid tightened border on the "Balkan route" that goes through Serbia and leads to Germany. We visit a makeshift camp to see what conditions are like.
The most powerful countries are increasingly closing their borders to migrant and refugee children with disastrous consequences.
Around 70 percent of the 68.5 million displaced worldwide are people from just 10 countries. Turkey hosts 3.5 million refugees, the world's largest number, and 16.2 million people were freshly displaced in 2017.
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