Tag: Asylum seekers ⁄ Open Migration

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 30/2018

August 7, 2018 - Open Migration

On August 1, the Aquarius left Marseille with its new equipment, ready to disobey any orders in contrast with the law. But as its rescue missions resume, 1,500 migrants have already lost their lives in the Mediterranean over 2018. Meanwhile, a new research shows the fragmentation of Italy’s public opinion on migrants and refugees.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 24/2018

June 26, 2018 - Open Migration

During a week that saw Trump partially backtrack on separating migrant children from their families, tensions are still high in the Mediterranean between the Italian government and the NGOs. With the ports still closed to rescue ships and the Coast Guard announcing it will not carry out rescue operations outside of Italian territorial waters, over 800 people who were fleeing Libya were pushed back.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 8/2018

February 28, 2018 - Open Migration

European border control agency Frontex approves the work of Italy in Libya: the awful conditions in Libyan detention centres are not Italy’s fault. Myths on migration dominate the Italian election campaign. In France, Macron’s proposed crackdown on immigration draws criticism from humanitarian groups and some majority members. Australia is still detaining refugees on Manus Island. Last, a successful integration experiment in Tuscany, and some news from post-Brexit UK.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 7/2018

February 20, 2018 - Open Migration

The foreign press has covered the march in Macerata, where thousands of people of people protested against racism and Luca Traini’s attack on migrants. In France, the National Court of Asylum has gone on strike to protest new government measures that would restrict access to asylum claim. Also: fresh violence against migrant centres in Italy, an investigation into the roots of intolerance, the voices of the victims in Macerata and much more.

Where is my home? A journey through refugees housing occupations in Rome

December 13, 2017 - Eleonora Camilli

Selam Palace, Viale del Policlinico, and Via Collatina are places of historic housing occupations by refugees and asylum seekers in Rome, a European capital where immigrants are not the only ones affected by the housing crisis. In perpetual fear of eviction, these communities have a history and an identity, and are awaiting a better future. Eleonora Camilli and Federica Mameli were able to visit them and listen to the stories of their occupants.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 47/2017

November 28, 2017 - Open Migration

What is happening in Libya and the Mediterranean is our fault. And there is no shifting the public’s attention to the NGOs, (as the TV programme Report attempted to do in last week’s controversial episode), because the issue, as we will never tire of repeating, is Libya. Also: what “help them at home” actually means; the lack of a plan for migrants in Italy; the tragedy of the “Dublined” in Europe; the indelible shame of Manus Island; why it is wrong to return the Rohingya to Myanmar. Finally, we remember the writer and journalist Alessandro Leogrande.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 44/2017

November 7, 2017 - Open Migration

This week, we begin our web-review from the farthest places. First we’ll cover the hell on Manus Island, where Australia detained and then abandoned asylum seekers, and the underreported tragedy of the Rohingya, caught between ethnic cleansing in Myanmar and closing doors in Bangladesh. We then return to the humanitarian disasters near home: the consequences of externalising migration to Libya and the neverending emergency in Calais. Last, we look at the roles art, technology and cities are playing in helping refugees integrate.