We open this week with good news: the European Parliament backed a courageous proposal to reform the Dublin Regulation, which would mark a “Copernican revolution” in the common European asylum system. Refugees in limbo: from Sicily, where they are targeted by organised crime, to Calais, where the humanitarian emergency is still very much a live a year on from the “final evacuation”, to Serbia, where closed borders are leaving refugees exposed to violence and abuse at the hands of border officers. Finally, we talk about the tragedy of returns to Turkey and Syria, and we conclude with a reflection on how wrong it is to assume that all refugees just want to go home.
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