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“The Stateless Person’s Tale” & “The Arriver’s Tale,” as told to Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah (previously). “Delia’s Return: The Migration and Deportation of an Unaccompanied Child” by Lauren Heidbrink, Delia, and Gabriela Afable (American Anth…

Dark things are happening on Europe’s borders. Are they a sign of worse to come? | Daniel Trilling

Posted inClimate crisisEuropeeuropean unionImmigration and asylummigrationPoliticsRefugeesUK news
Posted byDaniel Trilling
11/08/2021

With a disregard for people’s lives, countries from the UK to Poland are toughening up, as if in preparation for climate displacementIt is bad enough when states break their own rules and mistreat people – but it’s when they start to change the rules t…

New Strategy Recommendations Service Helps Streamline AWS Cloud Migration and Modernization

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Posted bySteve Roberts
10/26/2021

Determining viable strategies for successful application migration and modernization to the cloud takes time. It can also require significant effort, depending on the size and complexity of the application portfolio to analyze. To date, the analysis process has been largely manual and nonstandard in nature, making it difficult to apply at scale on large portfolios. […]

1,100 migrants cross Channel on small boats to UK in two days

Posted inEuropeFranceImmigration and asylummigrationPoliticsPriti PatelUK newsWorld news
Posted byHaroon Siddique
10/10/2021

Crossings take place as French minister accuses UK of failing to pay promised £55m to tackle the problemMore than 1,100 people made the perilous journey across the Channel in small boats on Friday and Saturday, as France accused Britain of failing to p…

Turkey’s border wall and deported Haitians: human rights this fortnight – in pictures

A roundup of the struggle for human rights and freedoms, from Kenya to France Continue reading…

Five migrants shot dead at Libyan detention centre amid mass escape

Posted inLibyaMiddle East and North AfricamigrationRefugeesUnited NationsWorld news
Posted byReuters in Tripoli
10/09/2021

Facility in Tripoli overcrowded after 5,000 migrants arrested in the country in past weekAt least five migrants have been shot dead at a Tripoli detention centre amid a mass escape from the overcrowded facility.Libyan security forces have detained more…

Mexico police intercept 652 Central American migrants in three cargo trucks

Posted inAmericasMexicomigrationWorld news
Posted byReuters in Mexico City
10/09/2021

Discovery is one of biggest of US-bound migrants, with 90% Guatemalans and nearly 200 unaccompanied minorsPolice in northern Mexico have discovered more than 600 Central American migrants hiding in three long cargo trucks headed to the United States, i…

French far right’s new face: the meteoric rise of Éric Zemmour

Posted inEuropeFrancemigrationThe far rightWorld news
Posted byAngelique Chrisafis in Paris
10/08/2021

The controversial TV pundit recently overtook Marine Le Pen in presidential election opinion pollsHe has been convicted for inciting racial hatred, attacked by historians for claiming the Nazi collaborator Marshal Philippe Pétain saved French Jews rath…

Reports of physical and sexual violence as Libya arrests 5,000 migrants in a week

Posted inAfricaGlobal developmentLibyaMédecins Sans FrontièresMiddle East and North AfricamigrationRefugees
Posted byGuardian Staff
10/08/2021

Raids by the security forces leave at least one man dead, as official observers decry ‘inhumane’ detention conditionsMore than 5,000 refugees and migrants have been arrested by the Libyan authorities in the past week with some allegedly subjected to se…

Migrants reaching Dover spend first night in unsafe conditions

Posted inmigrationRefugeesUK news
Posted byRajeev Syal Home affairs editor
10/08/2021

Report finds exhausted detainees including young and elderly forced to sleep on tent floors or bus seatsMigrants crossing the Channel in small boats are spending their first night on UK soil in crowded, unsafe and unsanitary conditions, a damning indep…

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