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Migration and race

“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 December 5, 2025

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.

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

Jamie McGhee October 31, 2025

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.

Prison of papers: As Netherlands ramps up detentions, undocumented immigrants speak out

Riccardo Biggi March 6, 2025

Despite a reputation for elevating human rights, the Dutch migrant detention system forces people into prison-like conditions without the right to work, study, or even know their release date. These environments breed isolation, mental health crises, and violence. And despite the government’s commitment to expel undocumented people, only half of deportations succeed.

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Missing data, missing souls in Italy

Gabriele Cruciata December 8, 2023

From 2013 to the present, Refaat has searched everywhere for their children. For ten years he has been traveling, asking, and searching. He has even appeared on TV hoping one day to be reunited with them. But to this day he still does not know if his children were saved or if they are two of the 268 victims of the October 11, 2013 shipwreck, one of the worst Mediterranean disasters in the last three decades.

Widowed by Europe’s borders

Gabriela Ramirez and Tina Xu December 8, 2023

At the EU’s Eastern border, people entering the EU face dangers from the elements as well as from border guards. But many die a second, silent death: a death of identity and acknowledgement. One wife is still fighting for authorities to recognize her husband among dozens of unmarked migrant deaths.

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