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Banjul to Biella

June 21, 2017 - César Dezfuli

It was 6:40 in the morning when Malick Jeng, 19, from Gambia, was rescued from a rubber boat in the Mediterranean last summer. He applied for political asylum and he now awaits the outcome in a reception center at the Hotel Colibrì in Biella, a small city in the north of Italy. Meanwhile, the political situation in his country has changed. Spanish photoreporter César Dezfuli followed his story from the rescue to his new, temporary life.

Tech companies should speak up for refugees, not only high-skilled immigrants

June 7, 2017 - Mark Latonero

Tech companies efforts to directly help and advocate for refugees have been admirable. But collective action from the tech sector would be more effective for swaying the opinions of the courts and the public.

One year at City Plaza in Athens

May 31, 2017 - Eleonora Camilli

The heart of Athens is reacting to Greece’s harsh financial crisis with different experiments of solidarity and self-organisation. These experiments aim at relieving the isolation of the jobless or homeless, compensating for the lack of healthcare and medicines, and regenerating unused spaces and social life. In one of the toughest moments in Greek history, the occupied City Plaza hotel has become a positive accommodation model for migrants and refugees. Eleonora Camilli went there to see how life in the former five-star hotel is after exactly one year of occupation.

Accusations against Ngos at sea: what is false or misleading in that smear campaign

May 19, 2017 - Francesco Floris and Lorenzo Bagnoli

“Too smart for their own good” (Matteo Renzi). “Taxi cabs for migrants” (Luigi Di Maio). Northern League secretary Matteo Salvini said there was a “secret service dossier” on them. Their chief accuser is Catania’s prosecutor Carmelo Zuccaro, according to whom their intervention “renders investigations into facilitators of criminal organisations useless.” After weeks of hearings, though, the defense commission in the Italian Parliament has cleared them of all suspicions. But who are they? Humanitarian Ngos, carrying out search and rescue operations in the waters between Sicily and Libya, are the target of a relentless smear campaign. The European border control agency Frontex has designated them the main “pull factor” for the rising number of migrant boats (and deaths) in the Mediterranean. How much truth, and how much untruth, is there in such accusations?

The double stigma of LGBTI asylum seekers

March 31, 2017 - Claudia Torrisi

As data on LGBTI asylum seekers continue to be scarce, it is more important to focus on the difficulties they encounter during their asylum application and the double stigma they consequently suffer.

Promoting rights to oppose prison radicalisation

February 6, 2017 - Patrizio Gonnella

Lately, radicalisation has been the subject of many debates, not always appropriate. Much has been said about the risk that Italian prisons become the breeding ground for an army of terrorists. We will start from the numbers that generated this alarm, than make some linguistic observations and finally outline some proposals based on prevention strategies that would promote a real security.

Cities beyond the welcome: integration, innovation and investment

January 27, 2017 - Marina Petrillo

Cities are fundamental places for refugees and migrants: they are where policies of reception and inclusion are experimented with and put into practice. An international conference in Milan considered the subject through the lens of three fundamental elements: integration, innovation and investment.

Cities for all: towards a new paradigm for integration

December 16, 2016 - Liza Ramrayka

“We need a paradigm-shift that would allow stakeholders to find and craft win-win lasting solutions that would benefit both migrants, refugees and hosting societies.”

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