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The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 19/2018

May 22, 2018 - Open Migration
A two-year-old girl was killed in Mons after police opened fire on a van carrying migrants heading to the UK. The review commission of the Ragusa court has rejected the prosecution’s appeal against the decision to release the Open Arms rescue ship, and confirmed that Libya is not a safe harbour as defined by international law. More migrants and refugees are being held in the country’s detention centres.

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Aboard the Aquarius in a deadly January

March 7, 2018 - Federica Mameli
As deadly shipwrecks keep happening in the Mediterranean, we look back at the start of the year, when the Aquarius ship rescued hundreds of migrants who were attempting to cross the Mediterranean. The photographer Federica Mameli was with its crew when they heard about the shipwreck of January 6 on the radio, and kept a logbook for us.

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The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 42/2017

October 24, 2017 - Open Migration
We open this week with good news: the European Parliament backed a courageous proposal to reform the Dublin Regulation, which would mark a “Copernican revolution” in the common European asylum system. Refugees in limbo: from Sicily, where they are targeted by organised crime, to Calais, where the humanitarian emergency is still very much a live a year on from the “final evacuation”, to Serbia, where closed borders are leaving refugees exposed to violence and abuse at the hands of border officers. Finally, we talk about the tragedy of returns to Turkey and Syria, and we conclude with a reflection on how wrong it is to assume that all refugees just want to go home.

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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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