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Home | Geography | Population and Migration

Migration and refugees

Afghanistan and the EU | Exodus: Our Journey

Afghanistan and the EU | Exodus: Our Journey

Geography | BBC Two | 2016 | 2'55''

The Taliban presence in Afghanistan has forced many to flee the country.

Africa’s Billion Pound Migrant Trail | Panorama

Africa’s Billion Pound Migrant Trail | Panorama

Geography | BBC One | 2017 | 29'02''

Benjamin Zand investigates the African migrant trade and reveals the extraordinary scale of people-smuggling across sub...

Am I British? | Panorama

Am I British? | Panorama

Changing patterns of the family | BBC One | 2021 | 28'52''

Reporter Greg McKenzie meets young people born or brought up in the UK who say Home Office immigration policy treats them as second-class citizens.

Border Wars | Stacey Dooley

Border Wars | Stacey Dooley

Geography | BBC Three | 2012 | 57'51''

The pathway to the American dream is a dangerous one for some - it's a five-day trek in ferocious heat. Stacey Dooley follows young South America...

Britain’s Billionaire Immigrants

Britain’s Billionaire Immigrants

Geography | Channel 4 | 2016 | 47'07''

How the world's biggest economy is going to extremes to buy into Britain's obsession with tradition. Mainland China's super-rich elite...

Calais refugees | Exodus: Our Journey

Calais refugees | Exodus: Our Journey

Geography | BBC Two | 2016 | 7'04''

The experiences of a migrant family who have been forced to leave Afghanistan.

Channel Crisis: Can People Smugglers Be Stopped? | Panorama

Channel Crisis: Can People Smugglers Be Stopped? | Panorama

Geography | BBC One | 2022 | 28'33''

Jane Corbin investigates the smugglers who get people into Britain and finds out what the government's plan to se...

Episode 1 | Burma with Simon Reeve

Episode 1 | Burma with Simon Reeve

Geography | BBC Two | 2018 | 59'00''

Simon travels to Burma and Bangladesh to learn about the roots and consequences of the Rohingya refugee crisis.

Episode 1 | Life in the Shadow of the Wall

Episode 1 | Life in the Shadow of the Wall

Geography | BBC News | 2017 | 22'35''

President Trump's administration has promised that prototypes for a wall to be built all along the US-Mexico border will be delive...

Episode 1 | Sue Perkins: Along the US-Mexico Border

Episode 1 | Sue Perkins: Along the US-Mexico Border

Geography | BBC One | 2020 | 57'53''

Sue starts her journey in the Mexican city of Tijuana, where she discovers an unexpected community of migrants - American...

Episode 2 | Life in the Shadow of the Wall

Episode 2 | Life in the Shadow of the Wall

Geography | BBC News | 2017 | 23'02''

One of President Trump's campaign pledges was the construction of a wall along the US-Mexico border. But how would a wall stop dru...

Episode 2 | Mediterranean with Simon Reeve

Episode 2 | Mediterranean with Simon Reeve

Case Studies | BBC Two | 2018 | 58'57''

Setting off from a snowy mountain ski resort in Cyprus, Simon Reeve finds an island and a capital city still deeply divided betwee...

Episode 2 | Sue Perkins: Along the US-Mexico Border

Episode 2 | Sue Perkins: Along the US-Mexico Border

Geography | BBC One | 2020 | 57'58''

Sue visits the Mexican city of Juarez, which adjoins El Paso, Texas. She meets Gabriela, who is bringing up her kids alon...

Episode 3 | Scandinavia with Simon Reeve

Episode 3 | Scandinavia with Simon Reeve

Geography | BBC Two | 2025 | 59'01''

On the last leg of his Scandinavian journey, Simon uncovers the surprising and sometimes shocking side of Sweden and Denmark, two of...

Episode 4 | The Americas with Simon Reeve

Episode 4 | The Americas with Simon Reeve

Geography | BBC Two | 2019 | 59'14''

Simon Reeve travels through Texas and Mexico. In Texas, Simon joins the US Border Patrol, who pick up migrants who have illegally c...

Eviction | This World

Eviction | This World

Geography | BBC Two | 2017 | 4'20''

The process of evicting migrants from the Calais Jungle.

Food and supplies | This World

Food and supplies | This World

Geography | BBC Two | 2017 | 2'47''

Food and supplies given to migrants arriving at the Calais Jungle.

Glasgow Girls

Glasgow Girls

Citizenship | BBC Three | 2014 | 59'03''

The compelling story of a group of teenagers with a cause in a musical drama based on the true story of the Glasgow Girls. What started as a grassroots petitio...

How do you supply a refugee camp in the desert with water | The Refugee Camp: Our Desert Home

How do you supply a refugee camp in the desert with water | The Refugee Camp: Our Desert Home

Geography | BBC Two | 2016 | 4'07''

Anita Rani shows us how the camp gets round supplying water in the desert. Whil...

Immigration Undercover | Dispatches

Immigration Undercover | Dispatches

Economics | Channel 4 | 2013 | 27'09''

Immigration remains at the top of the political agenda, with reports that tens of thousands of files sit uncleared in the system and ther...

Immigration: The Inconvenient Truth | Dispatches

Immigration: The Inconvenient Truth | Dispatches

Economics | Channel 4 | 2008 | 47'51''

Rageh Omaar investigates how immigration has affected Britain. Using Enoch Powell's explosive 'Rivers of Blood' speech as a ...

Immigration: The UK’s Record Rise | Panorama

Immigration: The UK’s Record Rise | Panorama

Geography | BBC One | 2024 | 29'02''

Ros Atkins explores how net migration to the UK has hit record levels, when the government promised in the wake of Brexit ...

Immigration: Who Should We Let In? | Panorama

Immigration: Who Should We Let In? | Panorama

Economics | BBC One | 2018 | 28'54''

With concerns about immigration forming a key part of the vote to leave the EU, Nick Robinson explores what immigration the pub...

Impacts of the Calais Jungle eviction | This World

Impacts of the Calais Jungle eviction | This World

Geography | BBC Two | 2017 | 3'19''

Nine months after the Calais Jungle eviction, migrants are still arriving in Calais.

Iraq’s Yezidi Minority | Exodus: Our Journey

Iraq’s Yezidi Minority | Exodus: Our Journey

Geography | BBC Two | 2016 | 59''

Iraq's Yezidi Minority who are fleeing the Islamic state.

Kutupalong: The Biggest Refugee Camp in the World | Burma with Simon Reeve

Kutupalong: The Biggest Refugee Camp in the World | Burma with Simon Reeve

Geography | BBC Two | 2018 | 4'03''

Travelling around Burma in 2018, Simon Reeve heads to neighbouring Bangladesh, to visit Kutupalong...

Layout of the Calais Jungle | This World

Layout of the Calais Jungle | This World

Geography | BBC Two | 2017 | 1'30''

A volunteer introduces the areas within the Calais migrant camp.

Life in Immigration Town | Panorama

Life in Immigration Town | Panorama

Geography | BBC One | 2017 | 29'12''

What happens when a community is changed by immigration? In 2007 Richard Bilton reported on how Slough was struggling to cope, and now he...

Lifting the Veil | Panorama

Lifting the Veil | Panorama

Geography | BBC One | 1975 | 47'03''

The programme examines two aspects of the immigrant Pakistani community in Bradford: the impact of English culture on the lifestyle of establishe...

Making the Midlands | Living in ’66

Making the Midlands | Living in ’66

Geography | BBC One West Midlands | 2016 | 29'03''

Adrian Chiles uses rarely seen archive film and talks some of those who were newly arrived in the west Midlands about the racism th...

Migrant Kids in Crisis | Stacey Dooley

Migrant Kids in Crisis | Stacey Dooley

Geography | BBC Three | 2016 | 30'41''

Stacey Dooley travels to Greece to follow children on the migrant trail, as they flee wars and seek new lives in Western Europe.

Migration | Y Byd ar Bedwar

Migration | Y Byd ar Bedwar

Geography | S4C | 2024 | 44'46''

We investigate the plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.

Refugee Boats | Exodus: Our Journey

Refugee Boats | Exodus: Our Journey

Geography | BBC Two | 2016 | 2'29''

Many migrants attempt to travel to Europe by boat or by climbing over a fence between Morocco and Spain.

Refugee experience | This World

Refugee experience | This World

Geography | BBC Two | 2017 | 3'33''

An interview with Aman, an Eritrean refugee who made it to the UK.

Rich, Russian and Living in London

Rich, Russian and Living in London

Geography | BBC Two | 2015 | 59'02''

Film looking at the Russian elite who have chosen to make London their home. It enters the lives of the uber-wealthy, including an entrepr...

S1E2 | Exodus: Our Journey

S1E2 | Exodus: Our Journey

Geography | BBC Two | 2016 | 59'28''

Documentary following some of the million people who smuggled themselves into Europe in 2015, including Syrian Kurd Ahmad, whose journey continues...

S1E3 | Exodus: Our Journey

S1E3 | Exodus: Our Journey

Geography | BBC Two | 2016 | 59'26''

Documentary following some of the million people who smuggled themselves into Europe in 2015, including 21-year-old Alaigie, whose journey through...

S2E2 | Exodus: Our Journey

S2E2 | Exodus: Our Journey

Geography | BBC Two | 2017 | 58'06''

Following migrants searching for a better life. Nazifa and Latif are trying to to pay a smuggler to take their family to Germany, but they can onl...

S2E2: In a Refugee Camp | The Insider: Reggie Yates

S2E2: In a Refugee Camp | The Insider: Reggie Yates

Geography | BBC Three | 2017 | 50'17''

Reggie Yates visits the Middle East to spend a week living and sleeping in the largest refugee camp in Iraq alongside 30,...

S2E3 | Exodus: Our Journey

S2E3 | Exodus: Our Journey

Geography | BBC Two | 2017 | 59'14''

Following migrants searching for a better life. This last episode revisits Sadiq, 11 months after he arrived in Finland.

Series 1 | Exodus: Our Journey

Series 1 | Exodus: Our Journey

Geography | BBC Two | 2016 | 58'57''

Documentary following some of the million people who smuggled themselves into Europe in 2015, beginning as thousands of Syrian refugees arrive...

Series 2 | Exodus: Our Journey

Series 2 | Exodus: Our Journey

Geography | BBC Two | 2017 | 58'42''

Following migrants searching for a better life. Nazifa, Latif and their two young children are living in a container in a refugee camp near At...

Smuggling into the UK from Calais | This World

Smuggling into the UK from Calais | This World

Geography | BBC Two | 2017 | 4'44''

Interviews explaining the methods of getting into the UK from Calais by van.

The Hidden World of Britain’s Immigrants

The Hidden World of Britain’s Immigrants

Geography | BBC Two | 2014 | 59'14''

Foreign correspondent Fergal Keane finds out what life is really like for a group of illegal immigrants struggling to survive ...

The Invasion of Lampedusa | This World

The Invasion of Lampedusa | This World

Geography | BBC Two | 2011 | 59'12''

How a tiny island in the Mediterranean is changing the face of immigration in Europe, with the arrival of over 40,000 migrants from Tu...

The Poles Are Coming!

The Poles Are Coming!

Geography | BBC Two | 2008 | 59'27''

What effect does a million Eastern European workers have on the British economy?

The Real Mo Farah

The Real Mo Farah

Geography | BBC One | 2022 | 59'22''

Sir Mo Farah reveals the shocking truth about his childhood, the journey he made from Somaliland to the UK as a young boy, and the subsequent years that le...

The Truth About Immigration

The Truth About Immigration

Geography | BBC Two | 2014 | 58'58''

BBC political editor Nick Robinson examines the public's anxieties about immigration and reveals the facts of an issue that has transformed Briti...

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