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The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 19/2018

May 22, 2018 - Open Migration

A two-year-old girl was killed in Mons after police opened fire on a van carrying migrants heading to the UK. The review commission of the Ragusa court has rejected the prosecution’s appeal against the decision to release the Open Arms rescue ship, and confirmed that Libya is not a safe harbour as defined by international law. More migrants and refugees are being held in the country’s detention centres.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 18/2018

May 15, 2018 - Open Migration

Supported by Forensic Architecture, some of the survivors from the November 6 2017 shipwreck have filed a lawsuit in the European Court of Human Rights against Italy, which had a role in the disaster that caused more than 20 deaths. Niger, one of the key partners to Italy and the EU, has sent 132 Sudanese refugees back to Libya. After a five-day odyssey, the 105 migrants rescued by the Astral have finally disembarked in Catania. DNA from Medhanie Tesfamariam Behre’s son shows that the man tried in Sicily for the 2013 Lampedusa migrant shipwreck is not the “real” Mered.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 16/2018

May 2, 2018 - Open Migration

The scandal over the Windrush generation - further proof of a “hostile environment” to foreigners - has led the British Interior Minister to resign. Elsewhere, however, things are very different: in France, three volunteers are facing trial for helping migrants cross the borders, while 35 migrants will be tried in Greece for protesting outside the Moria Refugee camp; other migrants were attacked by right-wing extremists on Lesbos. Meanwhile, Libyans are starting to flee their own country due to rising level of violence.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 15/2018

April 24, 2018 - Open Migration

The Mediterranean is still a controversial place: new rescue operations have been successfully carried out by SeaWatch, SOS Méditerranée and EUNAVFORMED, the Pro Activa ship Open Arms has been released, while an appeal ruling in Italy confirmed that Jugend Rettet's ship Iuventa remains impounded (despite new evidence that might help clear the German NGO of all charges). Last Thursday, a European initiative called for a ban on the criminalisation of solidarity. Meanwhile, a new Refugees International report details the abuse on migrants detained in Libya, while Austria is threatening to seize refugees' mobile phones and demand cash. The UK has been hit by the scandal of the "Windrush generation", while people in France took to the streets for jobs and for migrants.

EU-Turkey deal: the burden on refugees in Greece

April 11, 2018 - Marianna Karakoulaki

The statistic success of the EU-Turkey deal in lowering the influx of migrants to Greece also has another face, a far-reaching “crisis of solidarity”: desperate conditions for people blocked in camps on the Egean islands; what has been described as “a mental health emergency”; and the opening or reopening of more dangerous routes. Marianna Karakoulaki, who knows the island camps well and has travelled the Balkan route, takes stock for us from Greece of two years of EU-Turkey deal.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 48/2017

December 5, 2017 - Open Migration

Around the world, millions of people are being forced to migrate for different causes, in different circumstances and several countries, but they all have something in common: the only response to this crisis so far has to build up walls and enforce policies based on containment and deterrence. At what cost? In this week’s web-review, we will cover the price and the consequences of having borders.

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 41/2017

October 17, 2017 - Open Migration

In the face of an ongoing “crisis”, an “emergency” and a structural phenomenon, the responses are still inadequate despite time and money having been invested; from the burning issue of Libya (between the explosive conditions in the country and the failure of Italy’s dangerous strategy) to the discomforting situation in Italy (where a general election is about to affect policies and refugees die because of flaws in the system). As Italy sees its final chance to reform citizenship laws, the US are cracking down hard on refugees and migrants. Finally, we cannot be silent on the ignored genocide of the Rohingya. On a lighter note, we also cover recent films on migrant and refugees.

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