Tag: Mediterranean sea ⁄ Open Migration

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 24/2018

June 26, 2018 - Open Migration

During a week that saw Trump partially backtrack on separating migrant children from their families, tensions are still high in the Mediterranean between the Italian government and the NGOs. With the ports still closed to rescue ships and the Coast Guard announcing it will not carry out rescue operations outside of Italian territorial waters, over 800 people who were fleeing Libya were pushed back.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 49/2016

December 13, 2016 - Open Migration

The Mediterranean route and the thousands who have died in the attempt to get to Italy. The tragic plight of asylum seekers in Greece and Turkey, as a result of mistaken EU policies. Also: the challenges facing relocation programmes and the value of civil society initiatives in finding a response to the crisis.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 44/2016

November 8, 2016 - Open Migration

The consequences of European policies on migrations; the record number of deaths in the Mediterranean and the living hell of hotspots in Italy. Also: after the evacuation in Calais; repatriation of Afghans, the second-class refugees; Australia’s plans to punish migrants. Last: how the US presidential election will affect the global refugee crisis.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 43/2016

November 2, 2016 - Open Migration

The horror that we don’t want to face, the future after Calais, the limbo of migrants turned down for asylum and the anti-refugee laws that increase the risk of terrorism. But also: the humanitarian corridor model, openness in Canada, Uganda’s policy of solidarity and the story of the migrants’ doctor in Lampedusa.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 39/2016

October 4, 2016 - Open Migration

Three years after the tragic shipwreck off the coasts of Lampedusa, when 368 migrants lost their lives, Italy is marking the first National Day in Remembrance of Victims of Immigration. But one memorial day is certainly not enough to address the migrant emergency, and we need to come up with real answers to the humanitarian crisis. Also: the Baobab eviction, leaving hundreds of migrant adrift in Rome; the Hungarian referendum and the future of Europe; the sad plight of refugee children. This (and more) in our weekly web-review.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 30/2016

August 2, 2016 - Open Migration

The dramatic destiny of unaccompanied minors and the pressing emergency of migrants dying at sea. The stories of the refugees competing at Rio2016 and a reflection on the limits of technology as a response to the humanitarian crisis.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 27/2016

July 12, 2016 - Open Migration

Focus on Italy: the emergency in welcoming migrants on the move in Rome and the major issue of unaccompanied minors' reception in Sicily; an history of bad reception practices in the country (from long before the so-called refugee crisis); the positive example of the humanitarian corridors. Furthermore: Brexit & the migration control fantasy, the new climate change refugees and the impact of technology on the humanitarian crisis.