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Migrants’ detention will not stop with the pandemic

May 27, 2020 - Giacomo Zandonini

Detention of irregular migrants is still the main instrument used to track down and repatriate unwelcome people, even when - like during a pandemic - this is not allowed. Giacomo Zandonini tells us how the Coronavirus emergency in Europe is leaving migrants’ detention unchanged.

The shadows of the Portugal’s migration model

May 8, 2020 - Giacomo Zandonini

The news that Portugal has extended a series of benefits to migrants waiting for regularisation in response to the coronavirus pandemic, has travelled around the world. But even if thousands of people, amongst the most precarious and vulnerable in the country, will be better protected thanks to the new measures, in force until June 30th, “it is untrue to argue that now all irregular migrants will have access to the same rights as the citizens”. Giacomo Zandonini helps us to understand why.

I would like to stay home. The emergency in the emergency of the homeless

April 16, 2020 - Daniela Sala

In Italy, around 50 thousand people live on the streets. Among them, an ever growing percentage of migrants who, deprived of assistance and left without the now dismantled SPRAR network, found themselves homeless. From Rome’s most well-known shelters, Daniela Sala describes the emergency in the emergency of those having to cope with minimal services and bureaucratic troubles.

The Story of Anthionia, detained in a pre-removal centre and almost expelled (in spite of the rules)

February 12, 2020 - Gennaro Santoro

In accordance with Italian and international standards, as well as case law of the Court of Rome, only the Territorial Asylum Commission can determine whether a second asylum application based on new facts is admissible or not. A circular issued by the Ministry of the Interior, however, has allowed for the Police to decide upon the repatriation of vulnerable individuals prior to the deliberation of the competent Territorial Asylum Commission on the matter. For many, this entails expulsion and detention in pre-removal centres - facilities that too often have been under public fire due to systematic violations of the human rights of the individuals held there (the latest case was that of a detainee’s death in the centre of Gradisca d’Isonzo). In this article, the first in a series dedicated to alternatives to detention, lawyer Gennaro Santoro reports on some of the cases that have occured in recent months.

Situation on Greek Islands Showcases the EU’s Failure on Migration

September 24, 2019 - Marianna Karakoulaki

In August alone, 102 boats landed on the island of Lesbos and more than 2,800 people were assisted. Thousands more people were received in the Moria camp, already collapsing - it is hosting more than 10,000 people compared to the 3,000 places - which put the already critical conditions of migrants to the test even more severely. The health crisis, the new Greek plan for immigration and the harmful effects of the agreement between the EU and Turkey: Marianna Karakoulaki tells us about the situation on the island.

Tra i migranti senza diritti che attraversano la “necrofrontera”

August 8, 2019 - Lorenzo De Blasio

Arresti e detenzioni senza mandati giudiziari, racial profiling, fermi amministrativi che oltrepassano il limite legale, deportazioni forzate verso le frontiere sud del paese, rimpatri forzati anche nei confronti di minori e donne incinte, violenze fisiche e restrizione di circolazione nelle zone frontaliere. È quanto accade in Marocco, ultimo paese di transito nella rotta occidentale del Mediterraneo e attore privilegiato nel dialogo con l’UE per la gestione di quella frontiera esterna. A denunciare le terribili condizioni di quella che hanno definito "necrofrontiera" è il collettivo Caminando Fronteras, Lorenzo De Blasio parte proprio dal loro ultimo rapporto per raccontarci la situazione.

The 10 best articles on refugees and migration 24/2019

June 19, 2019 - Open Migration

Mere hours after the passing of security decree 2, pushed by Italian interior minister Salvini, the new legislation has already been applied to the Sea Watch, which sailed on June 12.

The 10 best articles on refugees and migration 23/2019

June 11, 2019 - Open Migration

New reports from Libyan detention camps, while deaths on the Mediterranean migrant route are on the rise.

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