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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 26/2017

July 4, 2017 - Open Migratio

Italy is building walls of laws, denying appeal to asylum seekers and even negotiating the possibility of closing its ports to humanitarian vessels. In Greece, migrants are being detained in hellish conditions. Sweden is reversing course on asylum and stepping up deportations. All of Europe is willing to do anything to stop the flow of migrants, including the legitimisation of Libya as a strategic ally, while ignoring the disastrous humanitarian situation in the country.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 25/2017

June 27, 2017 - Open Migration

A journey in 10 reads: The Mediterranean Sea, where migrants are still dying while the EU is busy trying to close that route at all costs. The absence of a reception system in Rome and Athens, and how volunteers are stepping in. The human costs of the Dublin Regulation in Britain and the experiment in pushback policies in Greece. A Ramadan denied for refugees in Lebanon, and how Japan is closing its doors on asylum seekers.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 24/2017

June 20, 2017 - Open Migration

Essential reads for World Refugee Day, events to celebrate solidarity, record numbers of people displaced worldwide. Also: reflections on rescue operations at sea, the importance of reforming citizenship laws in Italy, an atlas of foreign unaccompanied minors and the consequences of the failed EU relocation plan.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 23/2017

June 13, 2017 - Open Migration

A new report dismantles the accusations against NGOs out at sea using science, even as rescue ships are under attack from the Libyan Navy. What is behind the record numbers of Bangladeshis arriving in Italy? What do the digital footprints of people on the move tell us? Also: migrants in Italy are lost in translation; the forgotten children of Calais (and the rest of Europe); the crucial issue of new environmental refugees.

Training the Libyans is not enough to stop migrants

June 7, 2017 - Francesco Floris

On the night of May 23, 2017, the captain of the Iuventa, a ship from the German NGO Jugend Rettet, reported a new attack at sea by a Libyan motorboat: the crew had shot at some boats overloaded with refugees, then brought two of them back towards Libya. Was it the Libyan Coast Guard? How is Italy training them, and to what end? And how many Coast Guards actually exist in Libya? Francesco Floris takes us into the details of training in Libya and its historical precedents.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 21/2017

May 30, 2017 - Open Migration

As politicians and the media keep discussing the baseless accusations against the NGOs in the Mediterranean, no one seems willing to talk about what is happening in Libya, between prisons for migrants and a Coast Guard that turns rescue missions into deportations (by shooting out at sea).

The eight thousand migrants saved at Easter: logbook of a rescue mission

May 11, 2017 - Giulia Bertoluzzi

During the four days of the Easter weekend, 8,300 people were rescued in the Mediterranean: 1,300 by Frontex (the European Border and Coast Guard Agency) and the others by several NGOs in coordination with the Italian Coast Guard. The small Iuventa ship alone assisted 2,147 people, both taking them on board and with its life jackets and rafts. The Iuventa is a small fishing boat that has been adapted for rescue missions by the German NGO Jugend Rettet, one of the smallest organisations involved in humanitarian operations in the search areas of the Mediterranean. While much of the media and some politicians echoed the generic accusations of Catania’s prosecutor according to whom NGOs "attract" and sometimes even collaborate with smugglers controlling the flow of migrants, thousands of lives were saved from certain death by drowning, hypothermia, hunger, and thirst on the open sea. Our reporter Giulia Bertoluzzi was on board the Iuventa and kept a logbook for Open Migration.

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