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The 10 best articles on refugees and migration 25/2019

June 25, 2019 - Open Migration

As World Refugee Day was promoted by the UNHCR (70 million are forcibly displaced worldwide), the Sea Watch is still being refused a docking port: 43 people have been waiting at sea for 12 days, as the case reaches the Strasbourg Court.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 23/2018

June 19, 2018 - Open Migration

The odyssey of the 629 migrants on board the Aquarius has finally ended in Valencia, after nine nights out at sea following the Italian government’s decision to close the country’s ports. The decision was closely followed by the foreign press and even caused a minor diplomatic crisis with France, while all eyes were on the Aquarius. Meanwhile, as the standoff with the NGOs continues, units from the Italian Navy and Coast Guard are left in charge of search and rescue operations at sea.

The Open Arms case continued: new documents and Malta

April 12, 2018 - Marina Petrillo and Lorenzo Bagnoli

At the exact same time as the judge of preliminary investigations of Catania, Nunzio Sarpietro, was confirming the sequestration of the search-and-rescue ship Open Arms, Frontex was relaunching fears of terrorist attacks while introducing its new programme to secure European borders, Themis, set to begin this month. New data from the International Organization for Migration say that, while there has been a drop in arrivals, there are now 75 per cent more deaths at sea. And there are few rescue ships left, forced, as was the Aquarius recently, to negotiate the rescuing of hundreds of people with the Libyan Coast Guard. Let’s have a look at what the judge’s latest papers say and travel to Malta to understand why for many years there have been no disembarkations.

The 10 best articles on refugees and migration 25/2019

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 23/2018

The Open Arms case continued: new documents and Malta

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