Migration

“We understand that migration affects women differently and at Diaspora Africa, we use data to research how migration policy affects women. For example, we recently examined the UK’s new migration policy...

On 18th December 2023, Diaspora Africa commemorates the International Migrants Day. In light of the increasing number of migrants across the world, the UN General Assembly proclaimed 18 December as International Migrants Day in 2000.

In September 2022, Akaniro arrived at Cambridge, UK, alongside her family to pursue a postgraduate degree in Public Policy. If she had waited a year longer, she would have found herself in a difficult situation of choosing between studying in the UK.

They did not catch me having sex or in any compromising position. Someone asked me, no, accused me, of being homosexual, and I said, 'Yes, that I was homosexual.' And the school suspended me.

Penal sections should be metered out as punishment for those who violate these laws because the proper treatment of migrant workers essentially touches on their fundamental human rights.

Official reports show that thousands of migrants and asylum seekers lose their lives or disappear every day in the Mediterranean and the Northwest African routes.

These forced displacements, be it through colonization, neocolonialism, or geopolitical conflicts, have left countless Africans in a state of uncertainty, searching for safe havens and opportunities elsewhere.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimated that healthcare vacancies in the United Kingdom's health and social care sector rose to 217,000 between July and September 2022.

Almost 20 million Africans are reported to be living outside the continent as of 2020, yet the experiences documented above are only a drop in the ocean of countless others. There are many more who in the quest to make it out of the continent lose their lives in the desert and on the sea.