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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.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 2/2018

January 16, 2018 - Open Migration

Tales of migrants willing to risk their lives for the chance of reaching Europe and a better life, only to find closed doors and inhuman policies. A journey in 10 reads through dangerous routes, no asylum and forced returns.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 51/2017

December 27, 2017 - Open Migration

With the holidays in full swing - and our second birthday approaching - we would like to offer you a special edition of our web-review: the best of 2017, chosen by our own very readers! Here are the most clicked articles this year.

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.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 26/2017

July 4, 2017 - Open Migratio

Italy is building walls of laws, denying appeal to asylum seekers and even negotiating the possibility of closing its ports to humanitarian vessels. In Greece, migrants are being detained in hellish conditions. Sweden is reversing course on asylum and stepping up deportations. All of Europe is willing to do anything to stop the flow of migrants, including the legitimisation of Libya as a strategic ally, while ignoring the disastrous humanitarian situation in the country.

Why the new Italian law on immigration and asylum is not good news at all

April 28, 2017 - Open Migration

“There are many ways to build a wall: with concrete or with laws.” The words of Lorenzo Trucco, president of the Association for Juridical Studies on Immigration (ASGI), illustrate the much-criticised bill on immigration and asylum drafted by ministers Minniti and Orlando, which recently became law. Here is what the new law says and the main criticisms regarding the “legislative wall” it has in turn erected: now migrants officially have fewer rights.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 14/2017

April 11, 2017 - Open Migration

As the Italian government prepares to pass the much-criticised new law about immigration and asylum, migrants are dying in the Mediterranean in unprecedented numbers. Here is how the fundamental rights of asylum seekers are being violated in Italy, Europe and around the world.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 10/2017

March 14, 2017 - Open Migration

The crisis in the Italian and the European asylum system, the total collapse of the Greek system. Hungary’s illegal resolution to detain all asylum seekers. The shocking plight of child refugees and the particular vulnerability of LGBTI asylum seekers. Finally, the numbers that matter, especially to understand why deaths at sea are at all-time high.

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