Tag: Unaccompanied minors ⁄ Open Migration

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 45/2018

November 27, 2018 - Open Migration

After being accused of collusion with human traffickers, the migrant rescue vessel chartered by MSF and SOS Méditerranée has been seized under charges of illegal waste treatment. Evidence of systematic torture of migrants in Libya have emerged from trial documents.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 24/2018

June 26, 2018 - Open Migration

During a week that saw Trump partially backtrack on separating migrant children from their families, tensions are still high in the Mediterranean between the Italian government and the NGOs. With the ports still closed to rescue ships and the Coast Guard announcing it will not carry out rescue operations outside of Italian territorial waters, over 800 people who were fleeing Libya were pushed back.

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.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 16/2017

April 25, 2017 - Open Migration

The controversy rages on over the NGOs saving lives at sea (while no one discusses the responsibility of Europe looking on), part of a larger trend of criminalising solidarity. The order in Ventimiglia prohibiting the distribution of food to migrants has been revoked following protests by civil society groups. Also: the continuing humanitarian emergency in Calais, Denmark’s reckless deportations to Afghanistan and the costs of EU policies for unaccompanied minors kept apart from their families.

How much do you know about the refugee crisis 2016?

March 30, 2017 - Open Migration

Migration phenomena are still affecting Europe, and Italy in particular. The topics of arrivals by sea and asylum seekers are constantly discussed, but how accurately? Here are 10 questions (and a lot of data) to test your knowledge on arrivals and asylum seekers in 2016.