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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.

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.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 17/2017

May 3, 2017 - Open Migration

What is behind the witch-hunt on the NGOs rescuing lives at sea? Why the attempt to dismantle solidarity through criminalisation in Europe? Also: the heartening stories of the “rebels” in the French valley fighting for the rights to take in migrants, and the successful experiment of humanitarian corridors in Italy. Last: the recurring, dangerous myth of one million African migrants ready to land in Europe…

Como, an endless Game of the Goose at the expense of migrants

February 28, 2017 - Andrea Quadroni & Michele Luppi

Extensive checks and detentions in the northern Italian city followed by forced transfers to the Taranto hotspot. No end in sight for this Game of the Goose at the expense of migrants

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 7/2017

February 21, 2017 - Open Migration

The invisible deaths at sea, the bad migration deals to control migrant flows, the European race to forced repatriations and its human costs. The many discriminations against foreigners: from preschool applications to the right to love, the daily life of an undocumented migrant is an obstacle course.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 5/2017

February 7, 2017 - Open Migration

How Europe wants to close the Mediterranean route - at any cost. A selection of readings on the topic of how the externalisation of the borders is not an adequate solution to the management of the humanitarian crisis and how the agreement with Libya is an embarrassment. And no matter how indignant we may feel about Trump, what is happening here in Europe is similarly serious.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees & Migration 3/2017

January 24, 2017 - Open Migration

People continue to die at the doors of Europe, out in the cold or in the sea. An investigative report on the refugees’ inflatable rafts (made in China) and a report on walls against Africa. A reflection on the absence of solidarity within the European Union and an example of how Europe wants to criminalise solidarity itself.This and more in our weekly web review.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 46/2016

November 22, 2016 - Open Migration

The rising death toll in the Mediterranean, the right of asylum denied (especially in Italy,) and the dreadful prospect of the coming winter for the thousands stranded in refugee camps across Europe. Also: stories on Afghanistan and its “second-class refugees”, the forgotten tragedy of Syria and Donald Trump’s America. Last but not least: why we need a more informed, fact-based debate on forced migrations.

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