The Ministry of Home affairs has asked the Department of Immigration to take necessary steps to withdraw passports of and prevent travel outside of Bangladesh by 20 former army and police officials on charges of their involvement in enforced disappearance...
The Indian-born head of one of Japan鈥檚 most famous snack brands has warned that the country must change its mindset and admit more immigrants to get the聽economy聽back to the glory of its boom years...
Nearly 18,000 undocumented Indians in the United States face the risk of deportation, data revealed ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's January 20th inauguration. According to figures from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 17,940 Indians are among the 1.445 million individuals with final orders of removal...
The Department of Immigration and Passports has been found to be the most corrupt service provider, followed by the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority and law enforcement agencies...
MILLIONS of Bangladeshis go abroad every year for work with the hope of financial prosperity and improving the standard of living of their families. Migrant workers continue...
The economy, immigration, and abortion rights became the main issues that decided the overall outcome of the November 5, 2024, US election. Further analysis of exit poll data showed that the economy dominated the realm. The discontent of the working Latinos and Black males and the loyal MAGA (Make America Great Again) supporters made Trump...
Migration to richer countries reached a record level for the second year running in 2023, the OECD said on Thursday, reflecting demand for foreign labour and gaps in the workforce left by ageing populations.
Sultana Jahangir runs an organisation in Toronto that helps South Asian women get established in Canada -- a challenge she said is getting harder.
THE suspension of labour migration from Bangladesh to more than a dozen destination countries for up to five years for irregularities in the migration process and a number of other reasons warrants special attention of the authorities. Labour migration to at least 13 destinations 鈥� Oman, Bahrain, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Malaysia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates...
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...
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 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...
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...
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 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 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 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 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.
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
State minister for expatriates鈥� welfare and overseas employment Shafiqur Rahman Chowdhury said on Tuesday that so far 3,000 people who failed to...
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...
More than 10 million people have been displaced within war-torn Sudan, according to figures released on Tuesday by the International Organisation for Migration.
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...