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After Eu-Turkey deal, how to become second-class refugees

March 21, 2016 - Alessandro Lanni

In 2015, one quarter of asylum seekers in Europe came from Afghanistan and Iraq. The 8 March agreement between the EU and Turkey might create a double class of refugees: those who will have the right to pass and those who will have to go back.

5 things you should know about (second-class) Nigerian migrants

March 7, 2016 - Alessandro Lanni

Boko Haram, over 50.000 casualties in less than twenty years, poverty, human trafficking and prostitution. Nigerians have the highest number of asylum requests in Italy, but we hardly ever treat them like refugees seeking protection

5 things everyone should know about immigration and Islam in Germany after the events in Cologne

March 4, 2016 - Alessandro Lanni

How many refugees arrived in Germany in 2015, and how many of them are Muslims? Tension mounts in a country where 20% of the population is born of immigrants

Why are thousands of unaccompanied refugee children disappearing

February 26, 2016 - N. Sigona - J. Allsopp

Younger refugees disappear, but the organized crime is not the only cause. Often, the youngest don't find what they hoped for in the countries of arrival. The solution? Letting them reunite with their families.

5 things everyone should know about Eritrean refugees

February 23, 2016 - Alessandro Lanni

Fleeing compulsory military service and one of the worst dictatorships in the world, Eritreans cross the Mediterranean and arrive in Italy. Surprisingly, though, none of them wants to stay.

400.000 refugee minors arrived in Europe in 2015

February 18, 2016 - Alessandro Lanni

A third of all refugees in Europe arriving in Europe in 2015 are less than 18 years old. More than a tenth are children. More than 7000 asylum requests in Italy are from minors.

The flop of relocation and the sinking of the Dublin Regulation

January 24, 2016 - Nando Sigona

"New bureaucratic monsters" in Bruxelles to save European Union's scheme on refugee crisis

How many refugees in Italy are women?

February 23, 2016 - Alessandro Lanni

The gender make up of refugee flows depends on the nationality. Nearly a third are women in Europe, 10 percent in Italy. The Syrian case and the record number of Ukrainian women in our country.

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