Sentence examples for transit migrants from inspiring English sources

Mobility and migration of Turkish people and transit migrants, who cross Turkey to reach Europe, have become contentious issues in Turkey-EU relations.

EU governments expect that pressure will further increase by pointing at increasing numbers of citizens and transit migrants attempting to enter the EU illegally in search of work or refuge (e.g. Collett 2013; Fergusson 2014).

To the extent that data or estimates of temporary residents such as refugees and transit migrants are available, they have been included in UN mid-year 2015 population estimates, as such estimates are based on de facto and not on de jure residents.

Among the possible commitments from third countries are readmission (of their own citizens and transit migrants), an initiative to prevent irregular migration by improving border control, combating cheat and forgery, preventing trafficking in human beings and supporting of productive occupation and humane working conditions.

The Trump administration characterizes these transit migrants as disguised economic refugees, but it is impossible to disentangle their economic from their personal safety concerns.

Although it has improved in recent years, Mexico's asylum program remains understaffed and underfunded, and many transit migrants don't know they can ask for refuge there.

Towns in Mexico that are known for hosting in-transit migrants and human traffickers — such as Arriaga, Chiapas — have seen their streets empty out since the federal crackdown.

That means boosting co-operation between law enforcement agencies, stopping the transit of migrants in non-EU countries and "establishing a more effective process of returning illegal migrants".

Equally important is the effective implementation of readmission agreements with the countries of origin and transit of migrants, which very often procrastinate or bluntly refuse to readmit their own nationals.

Officials said Tusk would be stressing in Athens and Ankara on Thursday that the goal was to eliminate entirely the transit of migrants from Turkey to Greece and that Europeans believed Turkey should be able to bring the numbers down to the "low triple digits" very soon.

Once a major transit country for migrants, it has closed its borders with Serbia and Croatia.