Spain’s parliament to draft amnesty bill for undocumented migrants
Madrid, Spain Reuters Spain’s lower house of parliament voted on Tuesday to start working on a bill that would legalise hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants, based on a proposal by civil society groups that had collected more than 600,000 signatures backing it. Political parties now have up to two months to amend the proposal […]
To stay or go?: Caught up in war, Israel’s migrant workers face tough choices
Foreign workers in Israel, many from Thailand and the Philippines, fear for their safety but desperately need their jobs. LIN TAYLOR, MARIEJO RAMOS and CHAIYOT YONGCHAROENCHAI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Hundreds of Lebanon’s most vulnerable migrant maids flown home, many more wait
Amman, JordanThomson Reuters Foundation Hundreds of Lebanon’s most vulnerable migrant maids have been repatriated with funds raised by local charities, but thousands more remain stuck and destitute due to a deep economic crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, according to campaigners. Their top priority has been aiding women with health problems or young children and those […]
“My world stopped spinning”: Life on hold for millions of Philippine migrant workers
MANUEL MOGATO, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how the coronavirus pandemic has affected Philippines army of migrant workers…
“Packed like sardines”: Coronavirus exposes cramped migrant housing
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation A surge of coronavirus cases in foreign-worker dormitories across Singapore and in the slums of India has drawn attention to the squalid housing conditions of migrant labourers and the vital role they play in cities, housing experts said on Tuesday. In Singapore, which had earlier been lauded for containing the deadly […]
LABOUR RIGHTS: BABY OR A JOB? TAIWAN’S MIGRANT WORKERS FACE A STARK CHOICE
NICK ASPINWALL, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Taipei…