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“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.

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 November 13, 2025

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 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.

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

Carlotta Dotto October 10, 2025

“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.”

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

Mayra Alejandra Margffoy Tuay

July 14, 2025

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

Lucrezia Tiberio

May 29, 2025

Individuals staring into their smartphone screens as their shadows show them with mops and brooms.

Reporting migration as a human story: tips from our journalists

Tina Lee September 16, 2022

For the media, it sometimes feels like crossing a border changes who someone is- from someone of inherent value and dignity, to a small point in a large crowd, who’s rights are in turn diluted.

A Black man stands in front of a club entrance where a sign says its K-hip hop night. Below that, a sign reads, "no foreigners, no Moroccans, Egyptias, Algerians"

Interrupting racism in Korea

Purple Romero August 11, 2022

Can a three-letter word help us change our approach toward discrimination?

“Heard” but not seen: Being Black in South Korea

Arian Khameneh and David D. Lee August 11, 2022

Korean industries have commodified Black music and other components of their culture, but an ethnocentric-nationalist narrative, colorism and lack of legal protection against discrimination has made it more challenging to curtail the othering of Black people in South Korea.