Nottingham Trent University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. In the current frenzied media and political debate about the chaotic situation in Calais and the supposed benefits ...

Refugees and economic migrants are commonly mistaken to be the same people moving from country to country. In one minute, learn why we need to understand the unique plight of refugees and what some of ...

Despite a recent drop in oil prices and the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009, the economies of Persian Gulf countries expanded between 2005 and 2015. This economic expansion in countries like Saudi ...

Europe is in the midst of what’s being called a refugee or migrant crisis. Nearly 340,000 people have sought to cross European Union borders since January, including more than 100,000 in July alone.

LONDON — With every new storm-tossed rescue ship that hauls drowning migrants out of the Mediterranean Sea, European governments are becoming increasingly reluctant to throw open their ports. The ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is author of ‘Free’ “Could you tell us how exactly you got here?” The man who sat in front of me, ...

Immigration is reshaping societies around the globe. Barriers erected by wealthier nations have been unable to keep out those from the global South — typically poor, and often desperate — who come ...

The sight of Germans and Austrians cheering the arrival of trainloads of weary asylum-seekers has been a source of inspiration to the desperate tide pouring into Europe from the Middle East, Africa ...

Using representative national surveys, this paper compares economic outcomes among Latin American migrants to Spain and the United States in the first cross-national comparison using quantitative data ...

Indian and Chinese people working abroad sent more money home than migrants from any other country this year, but their remittance patterns are radically different. A recent World Bank report shows ...