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The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 13/2017

April 4, 2017 - Open Migration

Deaths of migrants at sea have reached record numbers, and certainly not because human rights NGOs are colluding with traffickers, as some have claimed, but because of specific European policies. Also: World Health Day is near, and this year the focus is on mental health; but migrants and refugees have little cause for celebrating, since they are victims of a largely ignored emergency. Finally: the real reasons refugees come to Europe. A pioneering study says that the vast majority of them have experienced terrible violence. On a good note, Italy has finally passed a new law on unaccompanied foreign minors.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 7/2017

February 21, 2017 - Open Migration

The invisible deaths at sea, the bad migration deals to control migrant flows, the European race to forced repatriations and its human costs. The many discriminations against foreigners: from preschool applications to the right to love, the daily life of an undocumented migrant is an obstacle course.

The Mediterranean: why so many deaths at sea in 2016?

December 11, 2016 - Lorenzo Bagnoli

4,733. The death toll in the Mediterranean, ever since the UNHCR started counting in 2008, has never been so high. Several ships - belonging to NGOs or international missions - patrol the waters to save human lives. Analysing the difficulties in communication and the various political issues at stake, we have tried to understand why it is, however, that so many people are still dying on the central Mediterranean route, the one that leads to Italy.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 46/2016

November 22, 2016 - Open Migration

The rising death toll in the Mediterranean, the right of asylum denied (especially in Italy,) and the dreadful prospect of the coming winter for the thousands stranded in refugee camps across Europe. Also: stories on Afghanistan and its “second-class refugees”, the forgotten tragedy of Syria and Donald Trump’s America. Last but not least: why we need a more informed, fact-based debate on forced migrations.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 44/2016

November 8, 2016 - Open Migration

The consequences of European policies on migrations; the record number of deaths in the Mediterranean and the living hell of hotspots in Italy. Also: after the evacuation in Calais; repatriation of Afghans, the second-class refugees; Australia’s plans to punish migrants. Last: how the US presidential election will affect the global refugee crisis.

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.

Aware migrants… and citizens

August 22, 2016 - Pierluigi Musarò

Two different pieces of news invite us to reflect on the effect of the media on public understanding of the so-called ‘migration crisis’. And more specifically, on how media performances contribute to shaping the Mediterranean as an emotional and physical setting in which fears and insecurities can be used for both progressive as well as regressive purposes.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 30/2016

August 2, 2016 - Open Migration

The dramatic destiny of unaccompanied minors and the pressing emergency of migrants dying at sea. The stories of the refugees competing at Rio2016 and a reflection on the limits of technology as a response to the humanitarian crisis.

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