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Stay or leave? The doubt of Alexandra and the people of Lviv

March 14, 2022 - Ilaria Romano

To stay and prepare to resist the bombing, or to escape the violence and face a very long journey with a small child? Alexandra's family, like all those in Lviv, is living hours of waiting and anguish. Ilaria Romano met them for us.

A new beginning for Ukrainian refugees in Prague

March 10, 2022 - Romina Vinci

Ukrainians are the largest foreign community in the Czech Republic, with almost 197,000 legally resident at the end of 2021. The Czech people have rallied around them and immediately mobilised to help the people at war and those fleeing the country. Romina Vinci reports from Prague.

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 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.

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