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The 10 best articles on refugees and migration 32/2018

August 28, 2018 - Open Migration

Only the intervention of the Italian bishops could end the unprecedented standoff over the Coast Guard ship Diciotti, held for a week outside the port of Catania with 150 migrants on board. Meanwhile, Malta rescued 100 people and we learned that escorting the Aquarius to Spain cost more than 200,000 in EU funds. Also: a surge in sea arrivals to Spain, the critical situation on the Balkan route, debates over migrants in Sweden in the lead-up to the general election

What do or don’t you know about the refugee crisis in 2017?

July 19, 2018 - Open Migration

Migration, arrivals by sea, asylum seekers: have you ever discussed about these issues with friends or colleagues? How accurately? Here are 10 questions (and lots of data) to test your knowledge of what happened in 2017.

Dunkirk, Calais and Macron’s tough migration policy

March 29, 2018 - Emanuela Barbiroglio

Although the infamous Jungle was dismantled, migrants keep arriving. About one thousand people still live between Dunkirk and Calais, partly in emergency accommodations. At the end of winter they will all find themselves shelterless, while Macron tries to force them to leave the country by imposing new – and very controversial – legal barriers.

EU-Turkey deal: the burden on refugees in Greece

April 11, 2018 - Marianna Karakoulaki

The statistic success of the EU-Turkey deal in lowering the influx of migrants to Greece also has another face, a far-reaching “crisis of solidarity”: desperate conditions for people blocked in camps on the Egean islands; what has been described as “a mental health emergency”; and the opening or reopening of more dangerous routes. Marianna Karakoulaki, who knows the island camps well and has travelled the Balkan route, takes stock for us from Greece of two years of EU-Turkey deal.

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.

Against the politics of killing slowly: contesting Danish deportation camps

March 2, 2018 - Jose Arce, Julia Suárez-Krabbe, Annika Lindberg

As activists, scholars, artists and people generally invested in migration struggles, it is crucial not only to document and analyse the complexities and inhumanity of the border regime, but also to document and support the ways in which people resist and mobilise against it.

The city of the Rohingya

February 9, 2018 - Giuliano Battiston

Still wary and afraid over the lack of guarantees from the Myanmar government seeking to repatriate them, the persecuted Rohingya are living in refugee camps in Bangladesh. Giuliano Battiston spent several days with them inside Kutupalong, one of the larger camps near Cox’s Bazar, where he found out they haven’t given up hope and are still making plans for the future

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