Migration

Amidst all that is written about the dangers of migration from South to North America, we rarely hear of the Darién Gap, a hazardous route that links South and North America, and that has long been used by migrants trekking...

Following the death of a baby during an interception at sea off the southeast coast of the island of Trinidad on Sunday, UN agencies have expressed their deep sadness and called for stronger measures to protects refugees and migrants. The vessel carrying...

Per leggere su questo in italiano, qui. Seven years ago, in 2012, fourteen Somalian and Eritrean nationals proved that Italy had violated the European Convention on Human Rights with its practice of intercepting migrants on the Mediterranean and bringing them...

The number of international migrants globally reached an estimated 272 million in 2019, an increase of 51 million since 2010. Currently, international migrants comprise 3.5 per cent of the global population, compared to 2.8 per cent in the year 2000,...

According to the “World Population Prospects 2019: Highlights” the current world population is 7.7 billion. It is estimated that by 2030 there will be 8.5 billion people on earth, and by 2050, 9.7 billion people, the population possibly reaching its...

Before opening the floor to the speakers, Tamburri noted that, between 1880 and 1920, more than 20 million people left Italy. He then introduced a really important idea that will be brought up many times during the conversation: history helps...

The book addresses the topic of transnational migrations from, and to Italy in the 20th and 21st centuries. Two years after its publication, Fiore claims that the book “still creates an occasion to speak about migration.” Indeed, the book came...

Exactly four years after the tragic shipwreck that occurred on April 18th, 2015, the boat was released on April 18th, 2019, by the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers and the Italian Ministry of Defense, to be handed over...

Populist forces pander to people’s need to have an enemy to blame for the unfair state of affairs and against which to lash out. To demand inclusive policies must not mean underestimating the serious social and economic costs that host...