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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.

The long wait of young unaccompanied migrants in Italy

February 8, 2017 - Giacomo Zandonini

Unaccompanied foreign minors in Italy: the underestimated numbers, the great problem of verifying age, reception centres that don’t work and the subsequent flight from those structures. Some data and considerations as we reflect on a complex phenomenon that needs more adequate responses.

What will remain of the Calais “Jungle”

October 31, 2016 - Sara Prestianni

The theatrical evacuation of the “Jungle”, the beginning of an outright “migrant hunt”, the right to asylum denied, the fires. Chronicles of history repeating, told in words and images by Sara Prestianni.

From Iraqi Kurdistan: stories of Syrian and Iraqi women on the run

October 17, 2016 - Sara Manisera

“I’d like to go home, but where is home?” wonder Aya and many other women in Iraq (both Iraqi, internally displaced in their own country, and Syrians, forced to flee their war-torn state).

Safe, legal access for asylum-seekers through resettlement programmes and humanitarian corridors

June 30, 2016 - Francesca Romana Genoviva

Every day EUNAVforMed personnel are intercepting boats adrift in the Mediterranean loaded with dozens of migrants who are desperate enough to risk their lives during the crossing. While the flow cannot be stopped, both States and NGOs can try to create an alternate access route to their territories. The international resettlement programme supervised by UNHCR and the humanitarian corridor initiative established in Italy are both steps in the right direction.

Letters from Lebanon: who is staying in Syria and who is leaving

August 9, 2016 - Sara Manisera

The Lebanese trap: five stories that describe the precarious plight of Syrian refugees in Lebanon waiting to go home or to attempt the journey to Europe. There is no way out: the only legal channel for access is through the humanitarian corridors that have been created by Italian civilian institutions. The alternative is to put one’s life in the hands of smugglers.

The political ‘migration crisis’ and the military-humanitarian response

May 6, 2016 - Pierluigi Musarò

"We need more than a humanitarian response. We need political leadership and action". Considerations on the problematic relationship between humanitarianism and politics in the context of the refugee crisis.

Thousands of children lost in the global asylum system

April 13, 2016 - E. Chase - N. Sigona

100,000 children seeking safety and security in Europe in 2015. The only "durable solution" is the endless detention?

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