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The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 25/2017

June 27, 2017 - Open Migration

A journey in 10 reads: The Mediterranean Sea, where migrants are still dying while the EU is busy trying to close that route at all costs. The absence of a reception system in Rome and Athens, and how volunteers are stepping in. The human costs of the Dublin Regulation in Britain and the experiment in pushback policies in Greece. A Ramadan denied for refugees in Lebanon, and how Japan is closing its doors on asylum seekers.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 24/2017

June 20, 2017 - Open Migration

Essential reads for World Refugee Day, events to celebrate solidarity, record numbers of people displaced worldwide. Also: reflections on rescue operations at sea, the importance of reforming citizenship laws in Italy, an atlas of foreign unaccompanied minors and the consequences of the failed EU relocation plan.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 23/2017

June 13, 2017 - Open Migration

A new report dismantles the accusations against NGOs out at sea using science, even as rescue ships are under attack from the Libyan Navy. What is behind the record numbers of Bangladeshis arriving in Italy? What do the digital footprints of people on the move tell us? Also: migrants in Italy are lost in translation; the forgotten children of Calais (and the rest of Europe); the crucial issue of new environmental refugees.

Tech companies should speak up for refugees, not only high-skilled immigrants

June 7, 2017 - Mark Latonero

Tech companies efforts to directly help and advocate for refugees have been admirable. But collective action from the tech sector would be more effective for swaying the opinions of the courts and the public.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 22/2017

June 6, 2017 - Open Migration

Death rates in the Mediterranean have almost doubled even as migrant crossings fall, since EU countries will do anything to push them back, disregarding international law and human rights while pointing the finger against humanitarian NGOs (who have gone from “angels of the sea” to “taxi cabs for migrants”).

One year at City Plaza in Athens

May 31, 2017 - Eleonora Camilli

The heart of Athens is reacting to Greece’s harsh financial crisis with different experiments of solidarity and self-organisation. These experiments aim at relieving the isolation of the jobless or homeless, compensating for the lack of healthcare and medicines, and regenerating unused spaces and social life. In one of the toughest moments in Greek history, the occupied City Plaza hotel has become a positive accommodation model for migrants and refugees. Eleonora Camilli went there to see how life in the former five-star hotel is after exactly one year of occupation.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 21/2017

May 30, 2017 - Open Migration

As politicians and the media keep discussing the baseless accusations against the NGOs in the Mediterranean, no one seems willing to talk about what is happening in Libya, between prisons for migrants and a Coast Guard that turns rescue missions into deportations (by shooting out at sea).

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 20/2017

May 23, 2017 - Open Migration

A large demonstration in Milan calling for fewer walls and more integration. Elsewhere in Italy, the reception system fell in the hands of criminal organisations (see the case of the hosting centre in Isola Capo Rizzuto); in Greece, it is on the verge of collapse following changes in the management of EU funding; in Turkey, we are witnessing a true humanitarian disaster (which Ankara would like to keep a secret) and Poland does not want asylum seekers at all. Finally: how the focus on refugees risks neglecting the internally displaced.

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