Subject: Illegal aliens (Keywords)

'Be strong, my Abela'. These are the last words of Abela's mother in their HIV/AIDS stricken African village, where it seems that to live or to die is just a matter of chance. It takes all Abela's strength to survive her Uncle Thomas's scheming to get to Europe, but what will be her fate as an il...

Danny - Dhananjaya Rajaratnam - is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, denied refugee status after he has fled from his native Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he's been trying to create a new identity for himself. And now, with his beloved vegan gir...

There are hundreds of thousands of undocumented Chinese immigrants working in Britain today. They've travelled here because of desperate poverty, and must keep their heads down and work themselves to the bone. Journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai went undercover to hear the stories of this hidden work force.

In a desperate attempt to save his mother and child from starvation a young man sets out for Europe to seek work. It proves to be the beginning of a long journey that takes Hamza Sudan to Egypt and finally to Italy and then Holland, where he experiences the world of migrant labour and the realiti...

NYPD detective Harry Corbin hasn't been allowed to work on a homicide case for almost a year following his unearthing of corruption amongst his colleagues. So when a young woman's body is found dumped and mutilated on a sweltering New York morning, Corbin jumps at the chance to redeem his career ...

Liam, an illegal immigrant, has has arrived in America and been landed with the worst kind of job and a reputation for trouble. Forced on the run, he finds wide open spaces bring him a freedom not advertised by the immigration brokers back home.

Brian Chikwava tackles head-on the realities of life as a refugee. This is the story of a stranger in a strange land - one of the thousands of illegal Zimbabwean immigrants seeking a better life in England - with a past he is determined to hide.

12-year-old Sade and her brother Femi have to flee Nigeria when their mother is killed and their father criticises the military rulers. The woman who brings them to London abandons them and they are alone in a new, often hostile, environment.

When Julie's car breaks down in the sleazy street where she meets her friends, a young Arab garage mechanic comes to her aid. Out of this meeting develops a story of unpredictable and relentless emotions that challenge their notions of each other.

Told from the perspective of asylum seeker, Bipul Masli, a press photographer from Somalia, the action takes place in an asylum seekers centre in Belgium during the final weeks of 2001. Through Bipul's eyes we witness a series of incidents in the lives of the asylum seekers and their outcomes.