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The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 14/2018

April 17, 2018 - Open Migration

The latest news on the release of the Open Arms ship open our review, which also focuses on the Lamepdusa hotspot, finally closed in March, also thanks to reports from CILD, ASGI and Indiewatch. Those reports are now collected in a dossier featuring first-hand accounts, interviews and photographs to document the inhuman treatments of the migrants held there. Meanwhile, the Italy-Libya deal comes under heavy criticism again: the UNHCR has published a report on the horrors of migrant detention in in the country, while a delegation of MEPs has called for more evacuations.

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 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 9/2018

March 6, 2018 - Open Migration

Italy has just wrapped up its general election and the results are clear: millions have voted for populist, anti-EU and anti-immigrant views. The election campaign was marked by strong anti-immigrant sentiments, culminating in episodes of violence, the latest being the attack on a human rights group in Macerata. We then take a look at the outer borders of Europe, where pushbacks and violations of human rights are still underway, and Libya, where the UNHCR is working to open new humanitarian corridors. Finally, some news from the USA, where the Supreme Court has made two contrasting decisions on immigrants, and post-Brexit UK.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 8/2018

February 28, 2018 - Open Migration

European border control agency Frontex approves the work of Italy in Libya: the awful conditions in Libyan detention centres are not Italy’s fault. Myths on migration dominate the Italian election campaign. In France, Macron’s proposed crackdown on immigration draws criticism from humanitarian groups and some majority members. Australia is still detaining refugees on Manus Island. Last, a successful integration experiment in Tuscany, and some news from post-Brexit UK.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 7/2018

February 20, 2018 - Open Migration

The foreign press has covered the march in Macerata, where thousands of people of people protested against racism and Luca Traini’s attack on migrants. In France, the National Court of Asylum has gone on strike to protest new government measures that would restrict access to asylum claim. Also: fresh violence against migrant centres in Italy, an investigation into the roots of intolerance, the voices of the victims in Macerata and much more.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 4/2018

January 30, 2018 - Open Migration

This week we are telling you about the hell in Libya and the human cost of closing the Mediterranean route; the business of border control, migrants taken in at Ripabottoni and abandoned in awful conditions in Rosarno. We also explain what is wrong with Israel’s plan for African migrants, and the Bangladesh plan for the Rohingya 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.

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