Migrants

The order to shutter Al Mabani, a notorious jail set up in Libya to detain migrants bound for Europe, might be seen as progress. But it is also an indication of darker aspects of migrant detention.

Sarah Stillman and Ian Urbina received prizes for reporting on migration, while a third contributor, Luke Mogelson, won the inaugural Schanberg Prize.

No law requires that people fleeing political violence and natural disaster should be met by the militarized cordon sanitaire in South Texas.

Migrants from across the region have again filled camps in northern Mexico, where criminals and traffickers prey upon them.

World leaders have drawn together to combat climate change and COVID, Francis noted, but little has been done to help migrants.

The drowning of twenty-seven people in the English Channel was not an inevitable disaster.

Tired of migrants arriving from Africa, the E.U. has created a shadow immigration system that captures them before they reach its shores, and sends them to brutal Libyan detention centers run by militias.

In Gustavo Milan’s fictional drama “Under the Heavens,” a lone woman tries to navigate the perils that can befall refugees.

“Europe’s last dictator” won’t hold on to power forever. But he has invented a new weapon.

Felipe Romero Beltrán’s series shows North African youths at an internment facility as they laze, play, and perform for his lens.

The current tragedy at the border is just the latest fallout from the U.S.’s failed policies toward Haiti.

Cecilia Muñoz discusses the Biden Administration’s response to the recent surge of arrivals and how conversations about the border have changed during the past thirty years.

The new Administration is coming under fire for a policy it says protects young migrants.

Seeing the whole journey along the U.S.-Mexico border lengthwise, from the sky, prompts curiosity about the people living near the border, the people trying to cross it, and the people trying to stop others from crossing it.

Kidnapped and forced into servitude by guerrillas in El Salvador, Ana escaped and sought asylum in the U.S. Now the government, citing an ever-expanding antiterror provision, plans to send her back.

As often happens with Trump and his policies, this is more difficult than it ought to be.

Jonathan Blitzer joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss how foreign-aid cuts, threats of border closures, and climate change are exacerbating the migrant crisis.

In “Sneakers Like Jay-Z,” pictures and interviews are paired to create a portrait of how refugees see themselves, and how they wish to be seen.

The President’s move to end all aid to Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras will only make the crisis at the border worse.

Hours before a Trump rally to drum up support for a border wall, a migrant shelter near the border offered the press a chance to hear from migrants themselves.