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Millions of lives changed forever

March 9, 2022 - Elira Kadriu

On Tuesday 8 March, Filippo Grandi, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, claimed that more than 2 million people have fled Ukraine, which makes the current crisis "the fastest growing crisis since World War II". Dramatic numbers, behind which lie the stories of so many women and men whose lives have changed forever. Elira Kadriu spoke to a few of them.

A tragedy within a tragedy: the racial discrimination suffered by non-Ukrainian refugees

March 1, 2022 - Oiza Q. Obasuyi

Since the breakout of war in Ukraine, more than 600,000 people have left the country, and many others are currently attempting to do so. Among these are people - mainly from Africa and South Asia - who are not Ukrainian but who live in Ukraine and who, just like the others, wanted to escape as quickly as possible. However, a growing number of pictures and videos show how unequal their treatment has been.

COP26, climate change and migration: 5 questions with Marta Foresti

November 19, 2021 - Tommaso Fusco

On November 13, the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, known as COP26, ended. Marta Foresti, Director for Europe of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) - one of the most influential global think tanks, based in London, and one that has been dealing with development and inequalities globally since 1960 - has closely followed the work of the conference.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 3/2018

January 23, 2018 - Open Migration

Issues of migration and asylum are at the centre of the political debate in Italy as well as Germany. Meanwhile, the Italian Parliament has approved a new military mission in Niger: nothing new under the Sahelian sun, all part of the wider European strategy of border externalisation. Also: whatever happened to Generation Identity’s anti-immigrant ship; how migrants are still dying in Calais or are left to wander on the streets of Paris; what we can learn from the occupation of the City Plaza Hotel in Athens; Trump’s first year on immigration policy; the returns of Rohingya from Bangladesh to Myanmar, and a new algorithm that could help in the resettlement of refugees.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 51/2017

December 27, 2017 - Open Migration

With the holidays in full swing - and our second birthday approaching - we would like to offer you a special edition of our web-review: the best of 2017, chosen by our own very readers! Here are the most clicked articles this year.

“I’m not a criminal”: the story of a former passeur in Niger

December 21, 2017 - Giacomo Zandonini

Niger – one of the main territories along the Saharan route – is one of the African countries which has most been impacted by decisions made in Europe at the big table on funding and humanitarian aid. Things here are never black or white, especially if you look close enough, as Giacomo Zandonini did for us. Here he met with former passeur Bazou Ider, whose life is intertwined with the history of modern-day Niger.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 44/2017

November 7, 2017 - Open Migration

This week, we begin our web-review from the farthest places. First we’ll cover the hell on Manus Island, where Australia detained and then abandoned asylum seekers, and the underreported tragedy of the Rohingya, caught between ethnic cleansing in Myanmar and closing doors in Bangladesh. We then return to the humanitarian disasters near home: the consequences of externalising migration to Libya and the neverending emergency in Calais. Last, we look at the roles art, technology and cities are playing in helping refugees integrate.

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.

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