E.U. Offers Cash and More Deportations in New Plan for Migrants
BRUSSELS — The European Union on Wednesday unveiled a new attempt to cajole reluctant member nations into participating in a common system for handling asylum...
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How a Million Refugees Became Postwar Pawns of the Allies
THE LAST MILLIONEurope’s Displaced Persons From World War to Cold WarBy David Nasaw The tidy title of David Nasaw’s “The Last Million” belies the mind-boggling...
‘White Australia’ Policy Lives On in Immigrant Detention
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Growing up in a Kurdish family in the Ilam Province of Iran, I never expected my life to be affected by...
Why a Refugee Camp Burned in Greece
Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device:Via Apple Podcasts | Via Spotify | Via Stitcher Among the olive groves of Moria, on...
The Secret History of America’s Only WWII Refugee Camp
NY Refugees On Aug. 5, 1944, nearly a thousand Jewish refugees from Europe arrived in Oswego, N.Y. Photographs by Alfred Eisenstaedt/The LIFE Picture Collection, via...
Pandemic Collides With Europe’s Migrant Crisis to Set Off a Calamity in Greece
ATHENS — The thousands of asylum seekers crammed into Europe’s largest refugee camp, on the Greek island of Lesbos, had for years bridled at their...
Tanker Asked to Rescue Migrants Off Malta Is Denied Permission to Dock
Thirty days ago, the tanker Maersk Etienne responded to requests from Maltese authorities to help a nearby boat in distress. The crew found an overcrowded,...
Trump Takes Night Off From Anti-Immigrant Talk to Swear In U.S. Citizens
WASHINGTON — President Trump moved within weeks of taking office to prohibit immigrants from Sudan from entering the United States, citing terrorism threats and including...
Border Officials Weighed Deploying Migrant ‘Heat Ray’ Ahead of Midterms
WASHINGTON — Fifteen days before the 2018 midterm elections, as President Trump sought to motivate Republicans with dark warnings about caravans heading to the U.S....
Taking Hard Line, Greece Turns Back Migrants by Abandoning Them at Sea
RHODES, Greece — The Greek government has secretly expelled more than 1,000 refugees from Europe’s borders in recent months, sailing many of them to the...