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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 shadows of the Portugal’s migration model

May 8, 2020 - Giacomo Zandonini

The news that Portugal has extended a series of benefits to migrants waiting for regularisation in response to the coronavirus pandemic, has travelled around the world. But even if thousands of people, amongst the most precarious and vulnerable in the country, will be better protected thanks to the new measures, in force until June 30th, “it is untrue to argue that now all irregular migrants will have access to the same rights as the citizens”. Giacomo Zandonini helps us to understand why.

I would like to stay home. The emergency in the emergency of the homeless

April 16, 2020 - Daniela Sala

In Italy, around 50 thousand people live on the streets. Among them, an ever growing percentage of migrants who, deprived of assistance and left without the now dismantled SPRAR network, found themselves homeless. From Rome’s most well-known shelters, Daniela Sala describes the emergency in the emergency of those having to cope with minimal services and bureaucratic troubles.

Doomsayers of the 21st Century

April 22, 2020 - Romina Vinci

Preaching about social distancing is no easy task when you live in a small and cramped space. Expecting the correct behaviours to be followed under poor hygiene conditions can be quite challenging. The foreigners who try and convey this concept to their families back in their home countries know this pretty well. Romina Vinci gives us a glimpse of a class of adults in Lombardy, Italy, in the middle of the Coronavirus emergency.

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.