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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.

Como, an endless Game of the Goose at the expense of migrants

February 28, 2017 - Andrea Quadroni & Michele Luppi

Extensive checks and detentions in the northern Italian city followed by forced transfers to the Taranto hotspot. No end in sight for this Game of the Goose at the expense of migrants

Forced returns to Sudan, the case against Italy at the ECHR

February 16, 2017 - Corallina Lopez Curzi

Five Sudanese citizens from Darfur – who were among the 48 “irregular migrants" that Italy forcibly returned to al-Bashir’s Sudan on 24th August – have appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Now Italy once again risks being convicted, following its one for forced removals to Libya under Gaddafi. Four things to know about this case and why it is so important.

If the EU wants to be the bastion of liberal democracy it must stop demonising refugees and migrants too

February 11, 2017 - Nando Sigona

While the rhetoric is certainly diverging between the US and EU since Trump took office, in practice there are many substantial points of convergence between the two sides of the Atlantic as far as the treatment of refugees and migrants is concerned.

5 things to know about Italy’s plan for immigration

February 10, 2017 - Corallina Lopez Curzi

Italian Interior Minister Minniti has finally announced the long-awaited and controversial plan on immigration and asylum before the two Commissions for Constitutional Affairs of the Chamber of Deputies and of the Senate. Prime Minister Gentiloni has presented the package to the Council of Ministers with the intention of making it effective by the end of the month. Pending more details, let’s analyse the main points of the plan.

Losing ground: listening to the voices of climate refugees

February 8, 2017 - Rebecca Buxton & Theophilus Kwek

By focusing exclusively on the long-term effects of air pollution or ocean acidification, protestors and politicians alike risk freezing the voices – and choices – of today’s climate refugees out of the debate. But climate refugees are already struggling to be heard and we must do our best to listen, now.

Arrivals by sea in 2016: all the numbers, and a few thoughts

January 31, 2017 - Corallina Lopez Curzi

There has been a lot of talk about a “record number of landings in Italy in 2016”. But what are the exact numbers of arrivals by sea in Italy and in Europe? Here are all the numbers, and a few thoughts.

Belgrade, the White City: the last border blanketed in snow

January 19, 2017 - Eleonora Camilli

Eleonora Camilli and Alberta Aureli went to Belgrade where more than a thousand refugees are stuck out in the cold without any assistance. Here, under a blanket of snow, lies Europe’s last border: no one can go on ahead, but no one wants to go back either.

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