Europe’s new migrant hotspot races to cope with surging deaths
Two years ago forensic pathologist Modesto Martinez, 68, moved to the tiny Canary Island of El Hierro with an eye to retiring. Instead, he’s been called out day and night…
Our emigration outlook
Over the last few years, Pakistan has witnessed a significant surge in emigration, fuelled by the challenges the country currently grapples with, including a growing population, instability, low growth rate…
Lost dreams
With a rapidly growing population of over 231 million, Pakistan faces increasing challenges arising from a stagnant economy and an uncertain political environment. Limited job prospects, highest-ever inflation, and aggravating…
Canada immigration
Bookseller Zulema Diaz fled her native Peru after being kidnapped, beaten and robbed, hoping to find safety in the United States. Instead, she said she experienced homelessness and sexual harassment…
Manufactured cruelties
Poland’s Law and Justice Party has happily stirred xenophobic hysteria. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and President Adrzej Duda are part of an administration that does not shy away from demonising…
Why Merkel can’t afford to lose Turkey as partner in refugee crisis
Merkel has failed to condemn Erdogan's post-coup purge and remains dogged in her efforts to retain Turkey as a partner in the refugee crisis. Commentators say it's part of her…
How Europe built fences to keep people out
In early March, Europe's migration chief Dimitris Avramopoulos squelched through a muddy refugee camp on Greece's border with Macedonia and peered through the barbed-wire topped fence that stands between tens…
End of Europe? Berlin, Brussels’ shock tactic on migrants
Is this how "Europe" ends? The Germans, founders and funders of the post-war union, shut their borders to refugees in a bid for political survival by the chancellor who let…
