Labour migration to major destinations still at halt
Labour migration from Bangladesh to over a dozen of destination countries that once employed millions of workers has remained suspended for up to five years for different reasons...
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India opens integrated check post, terminal at Petrapole
India on Sunday opened an integrated check post, passenger terminal building and a joint cargo gate named Maitri Dwar at the Petrapole in West Bengal to improve cross-border trade and immigration infrastructure...
Thousands of far-right protesters rally in London
Thousands of protesters marched through central London on Saturday calling for tougher immigration laws, in a heavily policed march after the arrest of a far-right leader...
Bangladesh urges IOM to evacuate its nationals from Lebanon
Dhaka has requested the International Organisation for Migration to arrange chartered flights to bring back Bangladeshis willing to leave Lebanon amid airstrikes by Israel on the...
EU supports with equipment to strengthen border security
The European Union is supporting border control personnel to detect and counter forged documents, identify thefts and other cross-border crimes, as well as to prevent irregular migration...
US VP rivals defend Trump, Harris in polite debate
US vice presidential contenders JD Vance and Tim Walz faced off in a surprisingly civil debate Tuesday, despite tense moments on the hot topics of migration, abortion and the threat of war in the Middle East...
Italy to support police reforms in Bangladesh, envoy says
Italy would support police reforms by Bangladesh鈥檚 interim government and work together for formal migration to the country, said Italian ambassador in Dhaka Antonio Alessandro on Wednesday.
Thousands protest 鈥榰ncontrolled immigration鈥� to Portugal
Thousands of protesters waving Portuguese flags and roaring the national anthem rallied in Lisbon on Sunday to express their anger at 鈥榠llegal鈥� and 鈥榰ncontrolled鈥� immigration.
Kamala vows migration crackdown, reform
Kamala Harris pledged Friday she would tighten the border and fix America鈥檚 broken immigration system on her first visit to the US-Mexico frontier as a presidential candidate.
No control over聽migration costs yet
Migration aspirants and migrant workers remain vulnerable as ever in the past as the recruiting agencies have kept on charging arbitrary and extortionate fees even after the...
Migration aspirants stage demo
Several hundred people aspiring to migrate to Italy on Monday staged a demonstration in the capital鈥檚 Gulshan area urging the Italian embassy in Dhaka to return their passports with Italian visas immediately...
People hold demos for job assurance, admission, madrassah nationalisation
People in different groups on Thursday gathered in front of the Bangladesh Secretariat to press home their demands including assurance of employment, continuation of the migration system in cluster admission tests and nationalisation of ibtedayi madrassahs...
What is behind England鈥檚 riots
THE series of race and anti-migrant riots that have been sweeping across England鈥檚 vast deindustrialised regions in the North West, North East, Midlands and Yorkshire have been ineffably ugly to behold...
Migration, politics and economics
ALTHOUGH this issue has not been discussed much, current political hostility may affect migration and its long- as well as short-term economics more than thought of now. The protests and subsequent jailing of protesting migrants in the United Arab Emirates have largely been forgotten now...
Immediate benefits, long-term risks
IN THE past decade, the youth from economically marginal class in Bangladesh are increasingly seeking employment opportunities in foreign countries, predominantly in the Middle East, Europe, and America. This phenomenon, driven by the allure of quick financial solvency, is becoming a defining characteristic of our labour market...
French PM urges united front to stop far-right takeover
France鈥檚 prime minister on Wednesday urged voters to form a united front to block the far right in legislative elections, warning the anti-immigration party of Marine Le Pen was the only faction capable of winning an absolute majority...
Lionised in London
WHOEVER designed Istanbul airport must have been inspired by the phrase: 鈥榃alk that extra mile鈥�. Passengers have to walk over endless travelators until they reach the immigration counters. Turkey admits only the fittest...
3,000 complaints filed as probe committee gets five more days
State minister for expatriates鈥� welfare and overseas employment Shafiqur Rahman Chowdhury said on Tuesday that so far 3,000 people who failed to...
49 migrants dead after boat sinks off Yemen
A boat carrying more than 200 migrants sank off Yemen, leaving at least 49 dead, mostly women and children, in the latest disaster on the perilous migration route from Africa, a UN agency said on Tuesday...
10m displaced in war-torn Sudan: IOM
More than 10 million people have been displaced within war-torn Sudan, according to figures released on Tuesday by the International Organisation for Migration.
Dissonance of state policies
THE exploitation of migratory waves to affect opposing national economies in a global context open to economic warfare appears today as a paradigm. This makes the management of the migration issue a problem with a global dimension that requires a well-coordinated global response...
Committed to make migration from Bangladesh safer: Italian envoy
Italian ambassador to Bangladesh ambassador Antonio Alessandro said that visa applications accompanied by fake documents and the illegal practice of paying hefty amounts of money to middlemen were among the reasons that create problems in making smooth migration from Bangladesh to Italy...
Migrating workers provide wealth for world
EACH year, the International Organisation for Migration releases its World Migration Report. Most of these reports are anodyne, pointing to a secular rise in migration during the period of neoliberalism...
Committed to make migration from Bangladesh safer: Italian envoy
Italian ambassador to Bangladesh, Antonio Alessandro, has said that visa applications accompanied by fake documents and illegal practice of paying hefty amount of money to middlemen are among the reasons that create problem in making smooth migration from Bangladesh to Italy....
Nearly 98 lakh Bangladeshi workers employed in 176 countries in 14yrs
A total of 97,07,250 workers from Bangladesh, including 10,85,117 female workers, have been employed from 2009 to 2023 in 176 countries across the world鈥�...
Pending cases can鈥檛 hold back passport: HC
The High Court in a verdict on Wednesday asked the Department of Immigration and Passports not to hold back passports on the excuse for pending criminal cases against applicants...
Cheated workers uncertain over money refund
Aspiring migrant workers who have failed to go to Malaysia even after depositing larger amounts of money are now grappling with uncertainty over refund of the money from the agencies...
Sunak pledges immigration visa caps
The ruling Conservative party announced plans on Monday for new annual caps on work and family visas to cut immigration after the opposition laid out its plans for...
Govt to investigate Malaysia migration crisis
State minister for expatriates鈥� welfare and overseas employment Shafiqur Rahman Chowdhury on Saturday said that legal action would be taken against those...
UK businesses criticise visa crackdown on int鈥檒 students
The UK government鈥檚 toughening of immigration policy for overseas university students risks weakening the higher education sector and could hit recruitment and investment, business leaders warned on Thursday...