Tag: Refugees ⁄ Open Migration

What do or don’t you know about the refugee crisis in 2017?

July 19, 2018 - Open Migration

Migration, arrivals by sea, asylum seekers: have you ever discussed about these issues with friends or colleagues? How accurately? Here are 10 questions (and lots of data) to test your knowledge of what happened in 2017.

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.

Where is my home? A journey through refugees housing occupations in Rome

December 13, 2017 - Eleonora Camilli

Selam Palace, Viale del Policlinico, and Via Collatina are places of historic housing occupations by refugees and asylum seekers in Rome, a European capital where immigrants are not the only ones affected by the housing crisis. In perpetual fear of eviction, these communities have a history and an identity, and are awaiting a better future. Eleonora Camilli and Federica Mameli were able to visit them and listen to the stories of their occupants.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 49/2017

December 12, 2017 - Open Migration

The hell of Libya and the one on Lesbos. The horrors of border deaths and deportations. These tragedies are unfolding right before our eyes, but we are choosing to ignore them. A reflection on the lessons we should learn, and a video to debunk all the myths and false stereotypes on refugees.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 47/2017

November 28, 2017 - Open Migration

What is happening in Libya and the Mediterranean is our fault. And there is no shifting the public’s attention to the NGOs, (as the TV programme Report attempted to do in last week’s controversial episode), because the issue, as we will never tire of repeating, is Libya. Also: what “help them at home” actually means; the lack of a plan for migrants in Italy; the tragedy of the “Dublined” in Europe; the indelible shame of Manus Island; why it is wrong to return the Rohingya to Myanmar. Finally, we remember the writer and journalist Alessandro Leogrande.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 45/2017

November 14, 2017 - Open Migration

The death toll in the Mediterranean is still rising, and an incident that cost 50 lives highlighted the recklessness of the Libyan Coast Guard, backed by Italy and the EU. Also: the Italian asylum system is still inadequate, and asylum seekers are facing a lottery. Refugee camps in Europe are still unequipped for the winter, while solidarity crimes are rampant. Last: still not enough is being done for the Rohingya, who are victims of a genocide that no one wants to call by its true name.