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.
NEWSROOM MIGRATION

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


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


Fate of Ukraine’s Foreign Students
Tracing non-white students who fled invasion but faced Europe’s hostility


Ukraine Exodus
Damaging double standards undermines Europe’s response to Ukraine refugees


Vaccinating Europe’s Undocumented
Policy scorecard ranks European countries efforts to respond to Covid 19


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


Central Mediterranean
Revealing EU role in refoulement by proxy off Libya


Returns to Harm
Europe costly, inhumane and malfunctioning deportation machine


Shadow Population
Why Europe has stopped counting its undocumented population
