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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.

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 39/2017

October 3, 2017 - Open Migration

Italy is actually paying Libyan people smugglers to slow down migrants, say the New York Times and the Washington Post. Also: citizenship laws, Germany and refugees after the election, the new Black Sea route (which does not warrant talks of an invasion in Romania), the first resettlements of refugees from the Australian detention islands, the tragedy of the Rohingya and Trump’s policy of fear against immigrants. This and more in our weekly web-review.

Rome: the only European capital with no official plan for migrants

September 6, 2017 - Eleonora Camilli

Rome is still the only European capital without an official plan for migrants. From the open space where Baobab Experience acts as the reference point for the city’s operations room (while being periodically subject to evacuations), to the Intersos centre for unaccompanied minors; from the Red Cross centre whose lease from the City is up every six months, to the discovery that hundreds of people were left to fend for themselves on Via Vannina; from the false alarms to the actual figures regarding arrivals, to the failed attempts at establishing an official hub, to the answers from the National Railways and the silence from City Hall, Eleonora Camilli mapped out the situation in the capital.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 33/2017

August 22, 2017 - Open Migration

Fewer arrivals by sea in Italy, thanks to the code of conduct for NGOs, says the government – but the real causes are much more complex and have to do with the Libya deal, the abuse of power by the dangerous Libyan Coast Guard and Al Sisi’s Egypt (not to mention sacrificing the search for truth about Giulio Regeni).

What is changing in the Med: five things you must know

July 28, 2017 - Open Migration

If you feel that many new things happened in the week of July 25, 2017 on the subject of of migration and rescues in the Med, it’s probably time to have a summary. A distinction must be made among certified political decisions, retracted announcements, decisions awaiting confirmation and an uncertain overall picture, but it’s definitely possible to sum up the new elements that may change the balance in the Med while affecting the lives of many people.

A fundamental legal guide to rescues at sea

July 19, 2017 - Open Migration

How do search and rescue missions at sea really work? Is saving lives at sea an obligation, and for whom? Why did private vessels had to be involved? Which norms apply at sea, on board in ships and in harbours? The CILD legal guide to solidarity provides the answers.

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