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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 42/2017

October 24, 2017 - Open Migration

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.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 35/2017

September 5, 2017 - Open Migration

Detention in Libya is already a business: revelations from international investigations into Italy’s economic deals with Libyan militias follow speculations on a 6 billion euro aid plan to Libya, announced by the President of the European Parliament Tajani in an interview with Repubblica. Immigration is also a business in Niger, where migrants are being hunted by the military and are seeking other routes through the desert, where they face death by dehydration. Meanwhile, in Rome, tension mounts with no solution in sight…

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 25/2017

June 27, 2017 - Open Migration

A journey in 10 reads: The Mediterranean Sea, where migrants are still dying while the EU is busy trying to close that route at all costs. The absence of a reception system in Rome and Athens, and how volunteers are stepping in. The human costs of the Dublin Regulation in Britain and the experiment in pushback policies in Greece. A Ramadan denied for refugees in Lebanon, and how Japan is closing its doors on asylum seekers.

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.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 34/2016

August 30, 2016 - Open Migration

Asylum seekers helping after the earthquake in Italy, while a reform of the right to asylum is in the works. Old and new borders, from Hungary to Uganda. Climate refugees and information crisis. The future of the Polish community after Brexit. And a reminder that nobody is ever just a refugee.

5 things you should know about (second-class) Nigerian migrants

March 7, 2016 - Alessandro Lanni

Boko Haram, over 50.000 casualties in less than twenty years, poverty, human trafficking and prostitution. Nigerians have the highest number of asylum requests in Italy, but we hardly ever treat them like refugees seeking protection

10 things to change in how we are handling the migrant crisis in Lesbos

February 18, 2016 - Marìka Surace

From Dublin Regulation to humanitarian corridors, from the conditions of reception camps to transparency in identification procedures. 10 things to do to stop a tragedy and prevent it from worsening.

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