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EU migration pact improvements face criticism for insufficient tools to manage large-scale migration emergencies.

Erin Ogunkeye is pleased to welcome Parvati Nair, Professor of Hispanic, Cultural and Migration Studies at Queen Mary University of London. She sees the UK-France migration agreement as a small but revealing element of a much wider post-Brexit relationship, in which questions of migration are intertwined with diplomacy, security, intelligence and surveillance. She warns that the scheme risks turning a complex human reality trivialises it into numbers and deterrence, while obscuring the plight of people who might be political or economic refugees. Many of those making these journeys have fled conflict, displacement and traumatic experiences, yet public debate too often reduces them to the category of “migrants” and treats migration itself as a problem and a threat. And so, the central question is linked to the kind of political and ethical framework we are creating around human mobility. She believes that governments need to address the conflicts, climate disasters and historical inequalities that drive displacement, while creating safe and legal pathways for people to move. That also requires greater accountability and transparency, a reconsideration of the militarisation of borders and the criminalisation of mobility, and a more fundamental shift in how migration is represented in public and media discourse. Humans have always moved, and migration can profoundly enrich the societies in which it takes place. The challenge is to build systems that recognise both national sovereignty and human dignity.

A year-old deal between France and Britain to return migrants crossing the Channel illegally on small boats has come to an end, the UK interior ministry said Wednesday. The deal was agreed under former UK prime minister Keir Starmer last year in a bid to help a post-Brexit reset by easing what had become a major source of tension between the neighbours.

A British-French agreement aimed at reducing the number of people trying to cross the English Channel in small boats has been scrapped, London said Wednesday. The pilot programme was intended to break the business model of "people smugglers" by exchanging undocumented migrants who had made the crossing for people who legally applied for asylum.

A pilot programme between the UK and France that aimed to curb the number of migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats has been scrapped, Britain’s government said on Wednesday. In a statement, the Home Office said the so-called “one in, one out” deal is “no longer processing new cases”. Under the plan, people who arrived in the UK after making the dangerous crossing across the Channel could be detained and returned to France in exchange for an equivalent number of asylum seekers who...

Demonstrators are demanding early elections and accuse Pedro Sanchez's government of negligence.

Voters are turning away from the centre in Germany as fears grow about the economy and migration.

Italy is a front-line country for migration, with integration a hot campaign issue ahead of its 2027 election.

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Football has been dragged into growing tensions over the influx of migrants from Morocco to the Spanish enclave Ceuta.

As the United States threatens Europe with more tariffs and eyes Greenland, as Russia tests the continent’s resolve over Ukraine, as the planet overheats,  where do citizens sense the biggest threat? In her Wednesday state of the EU speech, the Commission president addressed Ursula von der Leyen going big on manning the borders, literally suggesting new tools to better deal with migration, particularly after July’s run on Ceuta,  where over two days, tens of thousands of mostly Moroccans overran Spain’s North African enclave.

As Sweden heads into a closely fought election, the far right is gaining ground by tapping into concerns over crime and security, issues that some voters increasingly associate with migration. On FRANCE 24, Stockholm University sociologist Zeth Isaksson said the movement has also softened its image in recent years, making it more acceptable to a broader electorate, while also cautioning against overstating the strength of the far right in Sweden.

Sweden votes on Sunday as voters weigh migration, crime, the economy and whether the far right will enter government.

Months of anti-foreigner protests across South Africa have forced tens of thousands to leave the country.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez defended his government's handling of the migration crisis in Ceuta where some 80,000 migrants tried to enter at the end of July

Declassified documents show Spanish and Moroccan authorities were alerted to social media calls for a mass migrant crossing the day before tens of thousands entered Ceuta.

Conflicting comments from One Nation figures have raised questions about the party's migration target.