Court cases show how middlemen take advantage of shortcomings in U.S. visa programs, compounding abuses foreign workers face even before they arrive in America. By Megan Twohey, Mica Rosenberg and Ryan McNeill. (Feb. 19)

Reuters investigates Europe’s migration crisis: Millions of people, billions of dollars – and the struggle to cope.

“Grierson concluded that the female emigrants consisted of four groups: prostitutes, the wives of men who had already been to the colonies and had come back to fetch them, destitute widows with no one to take pity on them, and ‘married women who have made a slip, and who have either absconded from their husband’s house with or without a lover, or who have been turned out of doors by their husbands.’ The widows were blameless. The colonies would gladly take them.” By Gaiutra Bahadur. (Spr. ’11)

Why did this undocumented woman spend more than four years in detention? By Christie Thompson. (May ’15)

Night after night, Mohammed al-Jabiry tossed and turned in his bed at a refugee center in Finland, comparing life in Europe with life in Baghdad. After many sleepless nights, he decided to come home. “In Iraq, I can find a girl to marry,” Mr. Jabiry, 23, reasoned. “And my mom is here.” There were little things, too, that drove him to return, like the high price of cigarettes and the chillier weather. “In Europe, I was isolated,” he said.

When Muslim immigrants apply to become citizens, they often find the process delayed for years without explanation. Then, when they are at wit’s end, they get a visit from the FBI, with an offer they don’t dare refuse. By Talal Ansari and Siraj Datoo.

Chancellor Angela Merkel spent a decade amassing political capital. Now, with the refugee crisis showing no signs of abating, she has decided to spend it. With her legacy in the balance, she has finally found an issue to fight for. But why now? By Markus Feldenkirchen and René Pfister.

Die Linke leader pushes to ‘Corbynize’ Social Democrats. By Janosch Delcker.

One kick was all it took to make Osama Mohsen, a professional soccer coach from Syria, into one of the most famous refugees to arrive in Europe last year. After a Hungarian camerawoman sent Mohsen tumbling, his life took an unexpected turn. By Ralf Hoppe.

Heated rhetoric and world events leave Somali refugees and their new neighbors afraid — of each other. By Robert Samuels.

The German town of Arnsberg bans New Year firework displays around migrant and refugee shelters to avoid triggering traumatic flashbacks.

Czech President Milos Zeman called the current wave of refugees to Europe "an organised invasion", adding young men from Syria and Iraq should instead "take up arms" against the Islamic State (IS) group. "I am profoundly convinced that we are facing an organised invasion and not a spontaneous movement of refugees," said Zeman in his Christmas message to the Czech Republic released Saturday.

He could not write a word without hearing it in her pronunciation. He could not wait for her to read his pages. She understood his every comma. “All the happiness of the world, the riches, power and adventures, all the promises of religions, all the enchantment of nature and even human fame” could not equal, Nabokov swore in 1925, two of Véra’s letters. By Stacy Schiff.

Deer caught in barbed wire are dying after prolonged agony, as border fences fragment territories and interrupt migration of Europe's biggest predators. By Andy Coghlan and Mićo Tatalović. (Dec. 17)

As questions swirl around U.S. efforts to keep people with terrorism ties from entering the country, the story of Rahinah Ibrahim is a cautionary tale. By Raymond Bonner.

Uprooted from his life and family in the United States, a Honduran deportee returns to the country that he tried so hard to escape. By Luke Mogelson.

For years, a sense of disillusionment has been growing on the right. Now, the refugee crisis has magnified that frustration. Increasingly, people from the very center of society are identifying with the movement -- even as political debate coarsens and violence increases.

Decades after her mother immigrated from Hong Kong to Canada, Andrea Yu made the reverse move. She’s one participant in a growing trend: second-generation reverse migration. By Andrea Yu.

Undocumented immigrants risk scorching temperatures, venomous creatures, and military surveillance to get into the U.S. By Simon Worrall.

Burma’s Social Engineering Project. By Francis Wade.