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“From pity – nothing; from dignity – everything”: How domestic and care workers changed Spanish labor law

Mayra Alejandra Margffoy Tuay

A migrant-led movement has used tactics from theatre to unionization to demand equal rights and dignity for those doing society’s most undervalued labor. They’ve appealed to the highest levels of EU justice and achieved major legal reforms. Yet perhaps their biggest triumph is an ongoing movement for social change powered by intersectional solidarity and care.

How Refugees in Libya showed the power of migrant self-organizing

Lucrezia Tiberio

As Europe offshores border control to Libya – where horrific human rights abuses have been well documented – migrants too have been joining forces between North Africa and Italy, in a unified movement for safety and recognition under international law.

“We can only get out of here if we die”: How EU funds to help Roma communities are reinforcing isolation, prejudice and exclusion

Róbert Báthory, Zsófia Fülöp, Ernő Kadét, Ronald Rodrigues, Mihail Mishev and Vittoria Torsello

Roma people are routinely excluded from jobs, housing and public services. Yet tens of billions of euros to promote Roma inclusion are vanishing into projects with no transparency or measurable impacts. Our investigation found evidence of some of this EU money being spent on displacing or demonizing Roma communities in Hungary, Bulgaria, Czechia and Italy.

Children walk alongside a border fence with the shadow of security over them

Growing up too fast: Children struggle with aftermath of state violence in India-Bangladesh border villages

Ritwika Mitra

India and Bangladesh share a 4,000 kilometer-long border, which looms large for children of living alongside it, particularly those whose parents have suffered abuse at the hands of the Border Security Force.

Two people face eachother across a oceanic divide

The other France: Why Ultramarins are foreigners in their own country

Jamie McGhee

France is a far bigger and more diverse nation than even many French people acknowledge. In hanging on to former colonies, the Republic promised its overseas citizens the same rights as those on the mainland. In practice, they suffer from chronic underinvestment locally, and systemic prejudice if they relocate to the center of power.

How migrant women in the UK are breaking the isolation around maternal mental health

Carlotta Dotto

“The people who face the most barriers are often those who need our care the most – and yet their voices are not the ones we hear in maternity care.”

A woman stands with a broom in one hand and a child in the other, defending her land against encroaching fire

Community in La Cañada Real: The women defending Spain’s biggest informal settlement

Brenda Chávez

For decades, Moroccan immigrants have called La Cañada Real home. Now, real estate speculators are closing in on the informal settlement. Authorities are starving the community of basic infrastructure and demolishing homes. But women are pushing back against eviction and uniting against oppression from outside their community and within.

Three people wait in a airport line, while dreams and fears of Syria play in their mind

Caught between two worlds: Syrians in Europe grapple with the right to return

Marine Caleb

Since the Assad regime fell in December 2024, Europe’s 1.4 million Syrian refugees have been navigating the legal, emotional and security challenges of going back to a country they thought they may never see again.

Migration and race

“From pity – nothing; from dignity – everything”: How domestic and care workers changed Spanish labor law

How Refugees in Libya showed the power of migrant self-organizing

“We can only get out of here if we die”: How EU funds to help Roma communities are reinforcing isolation, prejudice and exclusion

Growing up too fast: Children struggle with aftermath of state violence in India-Bangladesh border villages

The other France: Why Ultramarins are foreigners in their own country

How migrant women in the UK are breaking the isolation around maternal mental health

Community in La Cañada Real: The women defending Spain’s biggest informal settlement

Caught between two worlds: Syrians in Europe grapple with the right to return

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