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The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 22/2018

June 12, 2018 - Open Migration

The ship Aquarius - full of migrants rescued by the Italian Navy and Coast Guard, among others - will not be allowed to dock in any Italian port and it should go to Malta instead: the decision was made by Italy’s Interior Minister Salvini and Transport Minister Toninelli (who is technically in charge of ports). The SOS Méditerranéee ship, also operated by Doctors Without Borders, is awaiting for new instructions off the coast of Sicily, amid concerns over the conditions of the 629 men, women and children on board.

Understanding the “conflicted middle” in Italy

April 13, 2018 - Antonella Napolitano

What we saw in the lead-up to Italy’s election was a polarised debate, with statistics and a flurry of accusations, acts of solidarity criminalised, and complex phenomena oversimplified. This research, supported by The Social Change Initiative in partnership with More in Common, surveyed political debate, public opinion, and reactions from civil society in five countries: Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, and Greece. The research was carried out in Italy by IPSOS, and presented it at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia.

The prosecutor’s case against the rescue ship Open Arms

March 29, 2018 - Marina Petrillo, Lorenzo Bagnoli and Claudia Torrisi

The rescue ship Open Arms has been seized after failing to turn over 218 migrants rescued at sea to the Libyan Coast Guard. The ship’s captain, the mission leader, and the director of the Spanish NGO have been accused of criminal conspiracy and aiding illegal immigration by the same prosecutor who had accused NGOs before the seizure of the Iuventa. We are at a critical point in the tug of war between the Italian Ministry of the Interior and those NGOs rescuing migrants out at sea. Here is what the document says, what the prosecution says, and what the NGO says.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 3/2018

January 23, 2018 - Open Migration

Issues of migration and asylum are at the centre of the political debate in Italy as well as Germany. Meanwhile, the Italian Parliament has approved a new military mission in Niger: nothing new under the Sahelian sun, all part of the wider European strategy of border externalisation. Also: whatever happened to Generation Identity’s anti-immigrant ship; how migrants are still dying in Calais or are left to wander on the streets of Paris; what we can learn from the occupation of the City Plaza Hotel in Athens; Trump’s first year on immigration policy; the returns of Rohingya from Bangladesh to Myanmar, and a new algorithm that could help in the resettlement of refugees.

The children’s shipwreck: a “disaster of bureaucracy”?

January 10, 2018 - Lorenzo Bagnoli

Case not dismissed. Giovanni Giorgianni, Rome’s judge of preliminary investigations (Italian acronym GIP), has decided that the trial for the shipwreck of October 11, 2013, must continue.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 51/2017

December 27, 2017 - Open Migration

With the holidays in full swing - and our second birthday approaching - we would like to offer you a special edition of our web-review: the best of 2017, chosen by our own very readers! Here are the most clicked articles this year.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 50/2017

December 19, 2017 - Open Migration

So much hypocrisy about Libya: European leaders are outraged at the “discovery” of a slave market, while they had known about it for years, which didn’t stop them from striking a deal to stop migrants. Today, a new Amnesty report exposes the responsibilities of Europe in Libya, while Italy is planning to hand sea rescues over to the Libyan Coast Guard. Meanwhile, the EU is split over migrant quotas and migrants are left out in the cold. All this, and more, in our weekly web review.

Where is my home? A journey through refugees housing occupations in Rome

December 13, 2017 - Eleonora Camilli

Selam Palace, Viale del Policlinico, and Via Collatina are places of historic housing occupations by refugees and asylum seekers in Rome, a European capital where immigrants are not the only ones affected by the housing crisis. In perpetual fear of eviction, these communities have a history and an identity, and are awaiting a better future. Eleonora Camilli and Federica Mameli were able to visit them and listen to the stories of their occupants.

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