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The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 3/2018

January 23, 2018 - Open Migration

Issues of migration and asylum are at the centre of the political debate in Italy as well as Germany. Meanwhile, the Italian Parliament has approved a new military mission in Niger: nothing new under the Sahelian sun, all part of the wider European strategy of border externalisation. Also: whatever happened to Generation Identity’s anti-immigrant ship; how migrants are still dying in Calais or are left to wander on the streets of Paris; what we can learn from the occupation of the City Plaza Hotel in Athens; Trump’s first year on immigration policy; the returns of Rohingya from Bangladesh to Myanmar, and a new algorithm that could help in the resettlement of refugees.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 46/2017

November 21, 2017 - Open Migration

Libya: how can we look the other way, in the light of the UN statements and the evidence of a full-blown slave trade, uncovered by a CNN report? Also: death on the high seas and lives lost at the borders; the forgotten tragedy of Manus Island, the genocide of the Rohingya and the unheard voices of North Korean refugees.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 20/2017

May 23, 2017 - Open Migration

A large demonstration in Milan calling for fewer walls and more integration. Elsewhere in Italy, the reception system fell in the hands of criminal organisations (see the case of the hosting centre in Isola Capo Rizzuto); in Greece, it is on the verge of collapse following changes in the management of EU funding; in Turkey, we are witnessing a true humanitarian disaster (which Ankara would like to keep a secret) and Poland does not want asylum seekers at all. Finally: how the focus on refugees risks neglecting the internally displaced.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 42/2016

October 27, 2016 - Open Migration

From Calais to Croydon, among the many concerns over the future of unaccompanied minors in the UK.But also: stories of integration through employment and technologies, and some thoughts on why apps are not enough to solve the crisis; the slave market emergency in Libya and the new environmental refugees in China; Canada’s mission to help Syrian refugees and the plight of migrants in Rome.Read this and more in our weekly web review.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees & Migration 40/2016

October 11, 2016 - Open Migraton

The refugee crisis, within and beyond Europe: migrants in the Mediterranean, between hope and death; tales of refugees in Italy and Greece; the plight of Afghan refugees and how Syrians are caught in Lebanese limbo. This and more in our weekly web-review.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 39/2016

October 4, 2016 - Open Migration

Three years after the tragic shipwreck off the coasts of Lampedusa, when 368 migrants lost their lives, Italy is marking the first National Day in Remembrance of Victims of Immigration. But one memorial day is certainly not enough to address the migrant emergency, and we need to come up with real answers to the humanitarian crisis. Also: the Baobab eviction, leaving hundreds of migrant adrift in Rome; the Hungarian referendum and the future of Europe; the sad plight of refugee children. This (and more) in our weekly web-review.

Hackathon and refugees: we can do better.

September 28, 2016 - Tin Geber

Are hackathons helping the refugee crisis? Is the social change community too techno-solutionist? How about we try to radically change hackathons in a way that’s not sexy but might provide actual results?