A young man reveals wounds he says were inflicted by Greek police after he tried to enter Europe from Turkey via the Evros River. Thousands of refugees have been systematically assaulted by Greek forces since the EU struck a migration pact with Turkey in 2016. Despite failing to stop crossings, that agreement has been baked into EU foreign policy.Photo: Belal Khaled/Alamy Noamgalai/Shutterstock

Global ambitions EU style

As the ink dries on the latest migrant deal with Egypt, Nathan Akehurst examines the fallout of the bloc’s callous foreign policies.

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NI 549 - Debt: which way out? - May, 2024
A resident walks past photos from French photographer JR displayed on a wall in Clichy-Sous-Bois, outside Paris. The photos were an attempt at presenting a more positive image of the inhabitants of the banlieues in the wake of 2005 riots.Photo: Associated Press /Christophe Ena/Alamy

Paris isn’t dead yet

The urban areas surrounding Paris are often considered a symptom – or cause – of the failure of France’s social policies. Cole Stangler speaks to residents of the banlieues, and finds exploitation and division – but a spirit of resistance too.

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NI 546 - Spying on dissent - November, 2023
Illustration: Papadam Th/Shutterstock

Tragedy - or murder?

At least 500 people have drowned in the Mediterranean in a single incident, just the latest in increasingly normalized disasters. Yet in the Western political milieu, it made barely a ripple. Nanjala Nyabola asks why migration policies have become so deadly, and what it will take to change them.

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NI 545 - Decolonize now - September, 2023
Protesters wearing t-shirts reading ‘no walls’ play football during a demonstration against a meeting between Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and the former Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini in Milan, Italy, on August 28 2018. The two far-right politicians met to discuss plans for the creation of a pan-European ‘anti-migration alliance’.Photo: Piero Cruciatti/Alamy

No room at the inn

Decades of deadly border policies have transformed the Mediterranean into a watery grave – an inevitable outcome of project ‘Fortress Europe’. In 2002 Yasmin Alibhai-Brown took on the racism behind the anti-refugee sentiment.

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NI 544 - Palestine - July, 2023
The Colour of Madness

The Colour of Madness

Husna Ara speaks to Dr Samara Linton about The Colour of Madness, her co-edited anthology that brings to life the varied experiences of alienation for migrants and people of colour in the UK.

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NI 543 - Loneliness - May, 2023
Light in the darkness. A Polish resident in Michałowo, a town a few kilometres from the Belarus border, puts a green light in her window as a sign of welcome to migrants.Photo: Michele Amoruso

Playing with lives

Hanna Grześkiewicz reports on the humanitarian crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border.

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NI 535 - Romani lives matter - January, 2022
Dale Farm has become a famous site for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities – as well as for violent evictions at the hands of police. As part of the Drive2Survive campaign, this summer protesters visited the site to stand in opposition to the UK’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which is set to place further criminal curbs on travelling people.Photo: Huw Powell

The ground beneath our feet

Jake Bowers argues for the rights of travelling peoples to live and move through the landscapes they call home.

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NI 535 - Romani lives matter - January, 2022
Night passage – migrants from many parts of Central America jump on a freight train leaving Irapuato in central Mexico, after waiting for more than 10 hours, en route to the Mexico-US border.

To ride The Beast

Images from the migrant route through Mexico, where desperate people risk a journey fraught with danger to try to make it to the US. Text and photos: Pablo Allison.

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NI 524 - How we make poverty - March, 2020
Bad tech

Bad tech

Data-snatching, AI and eye-spy: some of the new technologies undermining migrants’ rights.

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NI 523 - Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone - January, 2020
Jose Caceres, a migrant who was deported back to Honduras, holds up a picture of his sons. He was separated from his 11-year-old Brayan (right) five months ago as they tried to enter the US. Brayan is now living in a shelter in Maryland.Photo: Jim Wyss/Miami Herald/PA images

Deported by Silicon Valley

Governments are increasingly using surveillance and big data to track immigrants. Gaby del Valle reports from the US, where activists are trying to hold data-mining firm Palantir to account.

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NI 523 - Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone - January, 2020
Throughout history, migrants have often been treated as a source of disease and 'contagion'. (Left) Immigrant children are examined on arrival at Ellis Island, New York, 1911.Photo: Bettmann/Getty

How fear infected the border

Ruben Andersson traces the roots of a Freudian fixation.

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NI 523 - Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone - January, 2020
Illustration: Denise Nestor (figures) and Amel al-Zakout (background scene)

Who do you save?

Syrian artist Amel al-Zakout nearly drowned in the Mediterranean Sea after her boat capsized en route to Greece. Volunteer lifeguard Gerard Canals was part of the rescue operation. Hazel Healy put the two in touch with each other to speak for the first time since the shipwreck.

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NI 523 - Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone - January, 2020
Previous page:  Students perform Irish dancing at the Queens Saint Patrick’s Day Parade, New York. For people from ethnic minority backgrounds living in Ireland, the friendly image of the ‘invisible border’ does not apply – racial profiling by police and immigration officials takes place at crossing points and in-country.Photo: Richard Levine/Alamy

Ireland’s invisible frontier

The threat of Brexit has caused great anxiety about the return of a ‘hard border’ in Ireland. Yet it’s minority communities who have the most to fear, writes Luke Butterly.

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NI 523 - Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone - January, 2020
Illustration: Nick Taylor

Open borders, 2050

Alex Sager imagines a time when all people are free to move.

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NI 523 - Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone - January, 2020
Free entry

Free entry

Planet earth is not the same size for everybody. This infographic shows where you can travel to without a visa, depending on your nationality.

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NI 523 - Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone - January, 2020
Speak out

Speak out

A network of solidarity exists among and alongside those who move, and stay, without permission. Hazel Healy profiles three initiatives. ‘Is it fair that Europe walks as it wants in Africa but not the opposite?’ ‘Once you help, you cannot close your eyes’ ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’.

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NI 523 - Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone - January, 2020
Europe-bound. Migrant travellers from Togo en route to Italy after being rescued by Spanish rescue NGO Open Arms, February 2017.Photo: David Ramos/Getty

The right to move

People have always moved and cultures have always mingled. So why the myopic obsession with borders, asks Hazel Healy.

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NI 523 - Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone - January, 2020

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Article title From magazine Publication date
Debt: which way out? May, 2024
Spying on dissent November, 2023
Decolonize now September, 2023
Palestine July, 2023
Loneliness May, 2023
Romani lives matter January, 2022
Romani lives matter January, 2022
Romani lives matter January, 2022
The future of work November, 2021
Food justice: who gets to eat? September, 2021
How we make poverty March, 2020
Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone January, 2020
Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone January, 2020
Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone January, 2020
Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone January, 2020
Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone January, 2020
Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone January, 2020
Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone January, 2020
Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone January, 2020
Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone January, 2020
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