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The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 12/2018

March 28, 2018 - Open Migration

The Open Arms, a ship from the NGO Proactiva, has been seized in the port of Pozzallo; three members of the Spanish NGO have been charged with aiding illegal immigration. In France, mountain guide Benoît Duclos is facing 5 years in jail for helping a pregnant woman at altitude of 2,000 metres. The informal settlement on via Vannina in Rome, where many homeless refugees had gathered, has been evacuated again. In Venice, a new protocol between the Courts and the Bar Association is raising concerns.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 39/2017

October 3, 2017 - Open Migration

Italy is actually paying Libyan people smugglers to slow down migrants, say the New York Times and the Washington Post. Also: citizenship laws, Germany and refugees after the election, the new Black Sea route (which does not warrant talks of an invasion in Romania), the first resettlements of refugees from the Australian detention islands, the tragedy of the Rohingya and Trump’s policy of fear against immigrants. This and more in our weekly web-review.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 35/2017

September 5, 2017 - Open Migration

Detention in Libya is already a business: revelations from international investigations into Italy’s economic deals with Libyan militias follow speculations on a 6 billion euro aid plan to Libya, announced by the President of the European Parliament Tajani in an interview with Repubblica. Immigration is also a business in Niger, where migrants are being hunted by the military and are seeking other routes through the desert, where they face death by dehydration. Meanwhile, in Rome, tension mounts with no solution in sight…

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 5/2017

February 7, 2017 - Open Migration

How Europe wants to close the Mediterranean route - at any cost. A selection of readings on the topic of how the externalisation of the borders is not an adequate solution to the management of the humanitarian crisis and how the agreement with Libya is an embarrassment. And no matter how indignant we may feel about Trump, what is happening here in Europe is similarly serious.

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 and Migration 45/2016

November 15, 2016 - Open Migration

Trump’s new America and the concerns over the future of refugees and migrants. The ongoing humanitarian emergency in Europe, amid the deaths at sea and the evacuations (in Rome as well as in Paris). A journey from the New World to the Old one in ten essential reads.