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Global migration

  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    Malaysia
    Chinese emigration to Malaysia doubles on student and investment surge

    Middle-class families seek more affordable destination amid slowing economy at home

    Ethnic Chinese Malaysians visit a temple on the first day of lunar new year celebrations in Petaling Jaya, outside Kuala Lumpur
  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    ExplainerUK society
    Why are the far right rioting in England?

    A horrific knife attack, disinformation and extremists whipping up anger have all played a role in triggering a shocking outburst of violence

    Trouble flares during an anti-immigration protest outside the Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, on Sunday
  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    The Big Read
    The Democrats’ uneasy bargain with Mexico’s López Obrador

    The Biden administration needed the Mexican president’s help to reduce migration ahead of the election. Did it give too much in return?

    Montage image of López Obrador, Harris and Biden
  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2024
    Martin Wolf
    Immigration is both essential and impossible

    The option of temporary worker contracts is not embraced by either side but it may be the solution

    James Ferguson illustration of flotilla of ever larger immigrant boats heading west.
  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2024
    UK immigration
    Labour to stop using Bibby Stockholm barge for asylum seekers

    New UK government will discontinue lease of controversial vessel from January 2025

    Some officials are aboard the Bibby Stockholm barge at Portland, near Poole, Britain
  • Monday, 22 July, 2024
    UK immigration
    Last UK government spent more than £700mn on Rwanda scheme, Cooper says

    Home secretary criticises ‘shocking waste’ of money as she sets out plan to increase border security

    Yvette Cooper speaks in the House of Commons
  • Monday, 22 July, 2024
    Gideon Rachman
    Trump, Harris and a fear-filled campaign

    The outcome of the US election will turn on which candidate scares voters the most

    Illustration of spooky looking Democrat donkey and Republican elephant arguing as mist swirls around them
  • Saturday, 20 July, 2024
    Digital nomads bound for south-east Asian sunshine face visa dilemma

    Countries such as Thailand and Indonesia have tried to formalise process but struggle to boost take-up

  • Friday, 19 July, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Trump pledges tax cuts, trade wars and border crackdown

    Former president invokes God in convention speech as he accepts Republican nomination days after assassination attempt

    Donald Trump and his wife Melania
  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    UK immigration
    Starmer opens door to processing asylum claims outside UK

    New PM puts fight against irregular migration at heart of bid to rebuild ties with Europe at Blenheim Palace summit

    Britain’s Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, front fifth right, poses for a family photo with Europe’s leaders during the European Political Community summit at Blenheim Palace
  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    OutlookMichael Pooler
    Venezuelan migrants build a life in Brazil and dream of home

    With elections due this month, few expats expect Nicolás Maduro’s regime to change

    A man pushes a pram loaded with household goods and another man walks beside him with a car tyre in one hand and another around his shoulders
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    UK immigration
    UK food sector should cover migrant workers’ upfront costs, advisers say

    Migration Advisory Committee urges government to do more to stamp out abuses in seasonal worker scheme

    Farm workers picking lettuce in Tarleton, Lancashire
  • Monday, 15 July, 2024
    Demographics and population
    England and Wales record biggest annual population growth in 75 years

    Office for National Statistics points to impact of immigration as births slip to two-decade low

    Montage of a graph behind a photo of a crowd of people walking along
  • Friday, 12 July, 2024
    UK immigration
    Four migrants die in attempted English Channel crossing

    Incident off French coast reflects rise in hazardous small boat crossings this year

    A French police officer walks beside a police car parked on a road off a beach
  • Friday, 12 July, 2024
    Uefa Men's European championship
    Young wingers give Spanish football a fresh face

    Black stars Lamine Yamal and Nico Williams help steer La Roja to Euro final but racial tensions still dog Spanish game

    Nico Williams and Lamine Yamal together and separately
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    Alan Beattie
    The immigration dilemma Labour hopes will go away

    Starmer’s government faces a familiar trade-off between the economics and the politics of foreign workers

    An inflatable craft carrying migrants crosses the shipping lane in the English Channel
  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Migration, inflation and vacation Premium content

    The idea that mass tourism is creating knock-on effects like price rises is causing tension in the countries most-visited

    A tourist takes a photo as the Acropolis’ Propylaea are seen in the background, in Athens, Greece
  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
    Rana Foroohar
    Immigrants really do get the job done

    But even as migration greases the wheels of the US economy, it is becoming the source of increasing political friction

    Illustration of an angry man’s face seen in profile against a backdrop of a fence with razor wire on top with the silhouettes of people behind the fence. The razor wire is lined up so it looks like it is spooling out of the man’s mouth
  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    Europe Express
    Belarus opposition calls for Brussels to protect stateless exiles Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: How mafia organisations are infiltrating local governments in Italy

    Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko delivers a speech during a military parade
  • Wednesday, 3 July, 2024
    News in-depthUS-China relations
    China exerts new control over its young expats in the US

    Students and workers who joined the Communist party say they have been asked to spread propaganda

    Passport of People’s Republic of China on United States flag
  • Monday, 1 July, 2024
    Panama
    Panama will close notorious Darién Gap to migrants, president vows

    José Raúl Mulino has vowed to crack down on popular and dangerous route for people headed for southern US border

    A group of migrants arriving at the Reception Center for Migrant Care in Lajas Blancas
  • Monday, 1 July, 2024
    UK immigration
    Can Labour fix the UK asylum system?

    The party has pledged to scrap the Tory’s flagship Rwanda scheme but still reduce small boat crossings and end the use of asylum hotels

    Ako hugs his young son next to his wife on a sofa in front of a blue wall inside their flat
  • Monday, 24 June, 2024
    Jonathan Portes
    Low migration risks an economic doom loop for the UK

    The next government must realise that a managed and open policy is essential for long-term growth

    A patient leaves an A&E ward at a hospital in London in April
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    Italy
    Indian worker’s death exposes plight of migrant labour in Italy

    Satnam Singh died after having his arm severed by a machine on a farm near Rome

    Workers in a vineyard near Rome
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    OutlookAmy Kazmin
    Italian schools struggle to make migrant pupils feel at home

    The country needs to utilise the human capital of its nearly 900,000 foreign pupils

    Iqbal Masih school in Milan
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