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Syrians accuse Greece of 'pushing back' migrant boats by Sue Lloyd-Roberts BBC Newsnight - 5th June 2013 14 min film (at bottom of webpage) showing step migration from Syria to the EU LINK: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22757485 [Submitted by Lucy Scovell]

The working conditions of many poor African migrants in rural areas of southern Italy are "appalling", the international medical charity MSF says

The Costa del Sol is famous for its tourists and beaches but just behind them is a hidden world of industrial greenhouses where African migrants work in extreme conditions

Mexico: 500 migrants found in trucks in Chiapas

Money transfers from workers abroad to family back home have tripled in a decade and are three times larger than global aid budgets - Great for Paper 1

Interactive map showing migration worldwide

Guardian Interactive Resource - Great for Core Patterns - Populations in Transition

Interactive app that tracks migrants around the world

Roma Gypsy - Population Movement. Economic migrants.

The number of international migrants is expected to double to reach over 405 million by the year 2050, according to the International Organisation for Migration.

UN aid agencies are suggesting wealthy industrialised nations should perhaps rethink their policies on immigration and asylum in the wake of the latest tragedy in the Mediterranean, writes the BBC's Imogen Foulkes in Geneva.

Guangzhou, China - African migrants have been arriving in Guangzhou, China's third largest city ever since the Chinese economic boom began in the late 1990s.  Current estimates put their numbers anywhere from 20,000 to 200,000. The latter figure would place their population at almost two percent of Guangzhou's 13 million residents. In any event, Guangzhou's Africans constitute Asia's largest African community. The majority of them reside in a 10 square kilometre area in the central districts of Yuexiu and Baiyun locally known as "Chocolate City".

Great global overview of where migration is deadliest, great map also.