How Technology Helps to Criminalize Migrants
Controlling poorer, desperate populations in countries where conditions have deteriorated because of wealthier nations is not new. It is today’s ...
Tag: Mediterranean Sea
After ‘Hell’ in Libyan Jails, Migrants Reunite Aboard Rescue Boat
As the Ocean Viking operated by charity group SOS Mediterranee awaits a port of entry to disembark the 180 migrants ...
Italy’s Far-Right Salvini to Stand Trial for Illegally Detaining Migrants
Italian far-right leader Matteo Salvini is to stand trial on charges of illegally detaining migrants at sea after senators voted ...
Eight Migrants Die Trying to Reach Spain in 24 hours
More than 1,200 migrants have died or are missing at sea after attempting to cross the Mediterranean this year, U.N. ...
EU’s Migration Policy: Imposing Suffering as Deterrence Measure
The unimaginable horrors that migrants on the Greek islands face have become thoroughly normalized. The only conclusion that can be ...
Spanish Navy to Save Migrants Stranded Off Italy as Situation Nears Breaking Point
The announcement came after 15 migrants jumped into the water in desperation - some without life jacket - as the ...
Spain Ignores Call to Take in Minors Stuck on Rescue Boat
The captain of the Open Arms, Marc Reig, sent a letter on Monday to Spain's embassy in Malta asking that ...
UN Warns Italy Over Criminalizing Migrant Rescue Boats
NGO boats involved in search and rescue operations can be confiscated and captains fined up to one million euros ($1.1 ...
Salvini Demands Europe Take Migrants Held by Italy Coastguard
Far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Friday ordered 135 migrants and refugees rescued in the Mediterranean to remain aboard an ...
The Unacknowledged Costs of the EU’s Migration Policy in Libya
With EU support, the Libyan coast guard stops increasing numbers of migrants and returns them to the Tripoli, where they ...
Arrest of Migrant Rescue Ship Captain in Italy Fuels Tensions With Germany
Her vessel, banned from docking by Italian authorities, knocked the speedboat while pulling up to the pier on Saturday after ...
Sea-Watch Migrant Rescue Boat Defies Salvini, Heads for Italy
On Lampedusa, a priest has camped in the street to demand those on board - including three minors - be ...
Bodies of Most Migrants Lost in Mediterranean Remain Unidentified
Less than a third of over 15,000 migrants that have died in the Mediterranean sea on the way to Italy ...
EU Leaves Migrant Search and Rescue NGOs in the Mediterranean Without a Paddle
Regardless of the bureaucratic attempts to stop civil society migrant search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean, NGOs remain persistent ...
Kidnapping Migrants at the Mediterranean: How Rescue Becomes Capture
The rescue of migrants in the Mediterranean has become a mode of capture: those who are not left to die ...
From Migrants to Pirates: How Identities Change During Mediterranean Passage
Those who risk the Mediterranean passage in search of a better life should not be described with sensational names such ...
Race Against Responsibility: Why Conflict over Migrant Disembarkation is an EU Problem
While the EU struggles to find a fairer system for the distribution for migrant arrivals, those on the boats continue ...
‘Record of Shame:’ European Ports Remain Closed to Sick Children
Rights activists accused Europe on Friday of clinching a new "record of shame" with its refusal to open ports to ...
Annual Migrant Deaths in Mediterranean Fall by Over a Quarter: UNHCR
The number of migrants who died or went missing attempting to cross the Mediterranean fell by more than a quarter ...
EU’s Efforts To Prevent Migration From Libya Does Not Respect or Value Lives
The sustained effort by the EU to reduce arrivals from Libya is an approach whereby the lives of people on ...
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