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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 Tunisian fishermen who bury nameless migrants

June 22, 2017 - Giulia Bertoluzzi

In Zarzis, southern Tunisia, the victims of the Libyan route are washed ashore by the currents or retrieved while floating in the sea. They are the men, women, and children who have drowned in their attempt to cross the Mediterranean and reach Europe. Hardly a day passes by without fishermen or volunteers recovering a dead body. It is often impossible to identify them, but the fishermen struggle to give a proper burial to the nameless ones too, even if only under the sand dunes. Giulia Bertoluzzi spent some time with the fishermen and wrote a report for Open Migration, which anticipates the making of a documentary.

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 22/2017

June 6, 2017 - Open Migration

Death rates in the Mediterranean have almost doubled even as migrant crossings fall, since EU countries will do anything to push them back, disregarding international law and human rights while pointing the finger against humanitarian NGOs (who have gone from “angels of the sea” to “taxi cabs for migrants”).

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 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 20/2017

May 23, 2017 - Open Migration

A large demonstration in Milan calling for fewer walls and more integration. Elsewhere in Italy, the reception system fell in the hands of criminal organisations (see the case of the hosting centre in Isola Capo Rizzuto); in Greece, it is on the verge of collapse following changes in the management of EU funding; in Turkey, we are witnessing a true humanitarian disaster (which Ankara would like to keep a secret) and Poland does not want asylum seekers at all. Finally: how the focus on refugees risks neglecting the internally displaced.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 19/2017

May 16, 2017 - Open Migration

Migrants at sea: humanitarian NGOs are under attack, while the states are not taking accountability for tragedies (Italy stood and watched while 268 people drowned in the Mediterranean; Libya’s coastguard is becoming increasingly aggressive). Also, a voyage in the hotspots of the humanitarian emergency: the disastrous situation in Greece, the consequences of reinforcing borders in Melilla and the crisis of the reception system in Milan.

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