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The 10 best articles on refugees and migration 12/2019

March 26, 2019 - Open Migration

In the week that saw a new clash on asylum and new investigations into sea rescue NGO, a long-neglected issue came back into the spotlight: citizenship.

The 10 best articles on refugees and migration 47/2018

December 11, 2018 - Open Migration

The ship Aquarius was forced to terminate rescue operations at sea; a former penicillin factory was evacuated in Rome; European institutions are stalling on immigration. Meanwhile two new reports show how Italy is increasingly hostile toward foreigners.

From Nigeria to Catania, the path of victims of sex trafficking

November 3, 2017 - Claudia Torrisi

Where they come from, how they travel, how they are treated, how afraid they are, and the degree to which they are willing to disclose the specific links of the trafficking chain. From the latest IOM report to the public prosecutor who is trying to investigate this matter more and more, Claudia Torrisi retraces the route of sex trafficking victims, which often crosses through Catania.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 27/2017

July 11, 2017 - Open Migration

Libya as an unlikely, dangerous ally; migrants sent back into a hell beyond the sea (as one recent report dubbed it). Italy’s bluff to close its ports to migrant boats and its “help them at home” policy. The fundamental rights jeopardized by immigrant detention and the misguided attempts to solve humanitarian crises with evictions. Ten essential reads on the price of borders and the failed policies of the EU and others on immigration and asylum.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 18/2017

May 9, 2017 - Open Migration

The attacks on humanitarian NGOs saving lives out at sea (and the larger trend of criminalisation of solidarity) are taking attention away from real challenges and responsibilities. Also: letters from Greece, where thousands of asylum seekers are stranded in an inescapable limbo; Poland wants to replicate Hungary’s model of container camps for asylum seekers and Australia is adopting discriminatory policies in its resettlement effort, by according a preference to Christian refugees.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 9/2017

March 7, 2017 - Open Migration

From Trump's ban on immigration to the Italian approach to immigration detention: today's policies on migrants & refugees appear to be more and more in contrast with the actual data. 10 things to read this week.

5 things to know about Italy’s plan for immigration

February 10, 2017 - Corallina Lopez Curzi

Italian Interior Minister Minniti has finally announced the long-awaited and controversial plan on immigration and asylum before the two Commissions for Constitutional Affairs of the Chamber of Deputies and of the Senate. Prime Minister Gentiloni has presented the package to the Council of Ministers with the intention of making it effective by the end of the month. Pending more details, let’s analyse the main points of the plan.