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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.

There is no home – tales from the refugees who used to live on Via Curtatone

September 21, 2017 - Eleonora Camilli

The evacuated building on Via Curtatone in Rome is now protected by a barbed wire fence. The homeless refugees are scattered throughout the city, having left behind many of their possessions. Eleonora Camilli has been with them since day one, through multiple evictions and sit-ins, and has gathered oral testimonies from Mediha, Aster, and Biniam.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 36/2017

September 12, 2017 - Open Migration

New shocking reports from the detention centres in Libya; Donald Trump has revoked protections for children of undocumented immigrants; in the UK, the Guardian has obtained the full text of a Home Office draft document on post-Brexit plans for immigration; 270,000 Rohingya are now fleeing Myanmar.

Rome: the only European capital with no official plan for migrants

September 6, 2017 - Eleonora Camilli

Rome is still the only European capital without an official plan for migrants. From the open space where Baobab Experience acts as the reference point for the city’s operations room (while being periodically subject to evacuations), to the Intersos centre for unaccompanied minors; from the Red Cross centre whose lease from the City is up every six months, to the discovery that hundreds of people were left to fend for themselves on Via Vannina; from the false alarms to the actual figures regarding arrivals, to the failed attempts at establishing an official hub, to the answers from the National Railways and the silence from City Hall, Eleonora Camilli mapped out the situation in the capital.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 34/2017

August 29, 2017 - Open Migration

Drama unfolds in the Italian capital as Eritrean migrants and refugees, including families with children, are first evicted from an occupied building, then cleared from their makeshift camp in Piazza Indipendenza by law enforcement officers armed with water cannons and batons. What is happening in Rome, and what does it tell us on the collapse of the reception system in Italy? Also: a look at the world’s borders – out at sea, in the desert and elsewhere – to reflect on the immorality of building physical and political walls to keep migrants out of sight and out of mind.

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 48/2016

December 6, 2016 - Open Migration

Record arrivals and more people coming: the situation in Italy registers some good news, but still no permanent solution in sight. This week our web review also looks outside Europe, from the USA - where the upcoming Trump government stirs fears among undocumented migrants - and Asia, with the continuing persecution of the Rohingya people in South-East Asia.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees & Migration 40/2016

October 11, 2016 - Open Migraton

The refugee crisis, within and beyond Europe: migrants in the Mediterranean, between hope and death; tales of refugees in Italy and Greece; the plight of Afghan refugees and how Syrians are caught in Lebanese limbo. This and more in our weekly web-review.

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