NEWSROOM MIGRATION

While the issue of migration roils politics it’s poorly served by specialist reporting. The Migration Newsroom offers a training ground where general reporters serving big audiences can work with specialists on major investigations. It takes on original research projects at the intersection of journalism and academia, it also finds innovative framings that help to challenge widespread misconceptions.

Brain waste

Analysis of data previously unavailable to journalists reveals exclusion of skilled migrants from the jobs Europe most needs to fill to prevent economic decline

Great British Betrayal

The UK has turned away hundreds of Afghan commandos paid and trained by the British military. Some had complained about or say they witnessed war crimes by the same UK forces who were given veto power over their applications, with insiders warning of a conflict of interest.

Abandoned Afghan Commandos

Left Behind: Dozens of Afghans who served in special forces units funded and trained by the UK have been murdered or tortured by the Taliban

Left for Dead

Left Behind: Afghans who worked for Dutch-funded NGOs were told they’d be evacuated to safety, but a shift in policy left them to face the wrath of the Taliban – with consequences that have proven deadly

The German government is rejecting its Afghan staff’s pleas for evacuation, despite its own development agency warning they face Taliban retaliation

Germany’s Afghan Betrayal

Left Behind: The German government is rejecting its Afghan staff’s pleas for evacuation, despite its own development agency warning they face Taliban retaliation

France’s forgotten Afghan spies

Left Behind: A French-led intelligence cell in Afghanistan was kept secret for years – and now France has left its agents behind

The Left Behind

Tracing fate of Afghans who assisted the UK after fall of Kabul

Ukraine Exodus

Damaging double standards undermines Europe’s response to Ukraine refugees

Invisible Workers

Modern slavery conditions for migrant workers on EU’s farms at height of pandemic

Returns to Harm

Europe costly, inhumane and malfunctioning deportation machine

Shadow Population

Why Europe has stopped counting its undocumented population