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Migrants’ detention will not stop with the pandemic

May 27, 2020 - Giacomo Zandonini

Detention of irregular migrants is still the main instrument used to track down and repatriate unwelcome people, even when - like during a pandemic - this is not allowed. Giacomo Zandonini tells us how the Coronavirus emergency in Europe is leaving migrants’ detention unchanged.

The 10 best articles on refugees and migration 25/2019

June 25, 2019 - Open Migration

As World Refugee Day was promoted by the UNHCR (70 million are forcibly displaced worldwide), the Sea Watch is still being refused a docking port: 43 people have been waiting at sea for 12 days, as the case reaches the Strasbourg Court.

The 10 best articles on refugees and migration 19/2019

May 14, 2019 - Open Migration

Italy’s interior minister has announced a new crackdown on solidarity, with fines up to 5,500 euros for every “foreigner” rescued and taken to Italy. Seventy people died in a shipwreck off the coasts of Tunisia.

The 10 best articles on refugees and migration 17/2019

April 30, 2019 - Open Migration

The Italian interior minister said on Wednesday that 90,000 irregular migrants have been present in Italy since 2015, and not 500-600,000 as previously estimated. Are these inaccurate figures, or is it a shift in strategy?

The 10 best articles on refugees and migration 11/2019

March 19, 2019 - Open Migration

From the fall in asylum applications in Europe to the drop in migrant arrivals in Italy. Next, a boom in rejected humanitarian protection visas and climate change as a driver of migration. This and much more in our weekly web review.

The 10 best articles on refugees and migration 09/2019

March 5, 2019 - Open Migration

Over 200,000 people marched in the streets in the People First rally, signed by more than 1,200 groups protesting racism and the discriminatory policies by the Italian government.

The 10 best articles on refugees and migration 04/2019

January 29, 2019 - Open Migration

While 47 migrants await to be allowed to land off the port of Syracuse, the CARA in Castelnuovo di Porto, outside Rome, has been closed, leaving hundreds of people homeless and unable to integrate further.