Migration

One place where many try to build new lives is Agadir, a city along Morocco’s Atlantic coast. It isn’t perfect, but there is work and a sense of welcome as Morocco tries to integrate migrants. 

Many migrants to Europe are opting to take dangerous boat journeys across the Atlantic Ocean from West Africa to Spain’s Canary Islands. One of the launching points is in the city of Agadir in southwest Morocco.

Spain received more than 46,000 migrants in 2024. This, despite the dangers and tougher border controls at the fence-line between Morocco and the tiny Spanish enclave of Ceuta. To skirt security, migrants are swimming farther and farther out to sea, and sometimes drowning. 

A year after Italy signed a controversial migration deal with Albania, the detention facility built to house asylum-seekers in Albania stands empty as human rights groups call the migration deal cruel. But a remote village in northwestern Albania is still hopeful the plan will come to fruition.

A new play that premiered in New York last month tells the story of a pair of cousins — one from America, the other from Haiti — negotiating a difficult relationship, while highlighting the Haitian culture and diaspora.