migrantsicily: NEWSLETTER

October 2017

The Italian Political Deficit: Oppression and Exploitation in Seasonal Work
New and More Isolated Extraordinary Reception Centres
The Security Policies that Compromise the Protection of Migrants
Institutional Discrimination in the Exercising of Rights and Access to Services
News: The EU Confirms the Creation of a Hotspot at Messina; Doctors for Human Rights Presents an Online Map of Migrant Routes
Events: OpenEurope Presents a Series of Multi-Disciplinary Courses for Workers in the Reception System in Messina and Syracuse
Info and Contacts

August 2017

Outside of the system: Foreign minors and young adults deprived of protection in centres in Eastern Sicily

Fortress Europe declares war on migrants. Between repression, controls on rescuing, push-backs at sea and armed reception

Disorganisation, illegal practices and violations of human rights: the failures of a reception system still based on “emergency”

News: Migrants recount tales from the Libyan hell: “Sold as slaves, beaten and forced to leave”

Information and contacts

June 2017

A system which ignores human dignity: from the landing procedures to the reception centres

Guilty of solidarity. The campaign of criminalising giving assistance to migrants continues

The 'ad lib' reception system for foreign minors: making a buck from the youngest

Out of sight, out of mind: a visit to the “Mondonuovo” extraordinary reception centre at Testa dell'Acqua (Syracuse)

Deportations from Lampedusa continue, while the situation in the Hotspot worsens

News: Trapani, the Hotspot were 5 migrants arrive every hour (since December 2015). The tin-city for migrants at Messina-Bisconte nears completion

Events: Controversies in European Migration Policy: Conceding protection vs. border security (KideM). The launch of the Threadable crowdfunder, a social enterprise transforming histories of exclusion through ethical clothing

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March 2017

The manhunt for the “alleged boat drivers” and the undignified reception at Sicilian ports
Minors on the edge: between material deprivation and rights denied
The unending massacre a stone's throw from Fortress Europe
Deportations, evictions and abandonment: no way out for those in search of hope
News: Caltanissetta. After the Eviction, the Shanty Town Returns. Shacks Without Water: The Asylum Seekers Speak Out; Migrants. A Clear Way Ahead For The Minniti-Orlando Decree: The Central Points
Info and contacts

February 2017

Europe's silent war on migrants, among illegality, mass rejections and abandonment

The Lampedusa Hotspot: New arrivals and daily violations

In Augusta, undignified detention, abuse and arrests await those who survive the sea

News and Events: The Palanebiolo tent-city in Messina finally to be taken down. In Catania, the third event of the international “KideM” project

Info and contacts

January 2017

Police Operations, Repression and Daily Massacres: Europe Continues to Build Walls Against Migrants
The Invisible People of Campobello di Mazara, Caught Between Exploitation, Destitution and Abandonment
Eastern Sicily: The Hostile Reception of Minors, Housed in Tent-Cities, Hotspots and Emergency Centres
News: Pozzallo: Money For Migrants Used By The Local Council For Everything From Fixing the Gym to Paying Overtime
Info and Contacts

December 2016

Still more deaths and missing persons in the Canal of Sicily, yet Fortress Europe intensifies armed border control
The suspended future facing foreign minors: overcrowding, lack of safeguard and a waiting without end
Asylum seekers imprisoned in border countries: the failure of the Hotspot system
Messina: €1,932,000 allocated to establish a mega-tent city at the former 'Gasparro' barracks
Info and contacts

November 2016

Drawn out landing operations, hurried rejections and packed centres: a journey into the crisis of the Sicilian reception system

A future denied to those who survive the sea, between the limbo of the CAS and the hell of the fields

Overcrowding, isolation and exclusion. Migrant reception as business, even at the expense of minors

Pozzallo: the Hotspot approach and the violation of human rights

News: Noëmi Landolt tells WOZ about the Libyan Coast Guard attack on the Sea-Watch 2

Info and contacts

October 2016

Commemorating the Victims, Shutting Out the Survivors: Fortress Europe's Crocodile Tears

Sicily: An Improvised Reception System Producing Inhumane Detention and Illegal Practices

Militarised Coasts and Invisible Borders: The Fatal Tools of a Europe Turning Its Back on Migrants

News and events

Information and contacts

September 2016

Drawn-out Landing Operations and Facilities in Free-fall: The Failure of the Italian System Creates Violence and Exploitation

Continual Rejections and Illegal Detention, Inhuman Consequences of the “Hotspot” Approach

Hotspots and Extraordinary Reception Centres: The Non-Places of the Reception System for Unaccompanied Minors

News and Events

Information and Contacts

August 2016

Militarisation and Disorganisation: Exhausting and Inefficient Landing Operations, At Migrants' Expense

Welcoming the Dead, Rejecting the Living

The Failed Reception of Unaccompanied Minors, Caught Between Isolation, Indifference and Violence

Asylum Seekers and Unaccompanied Minors in the Limbo of the Old and New Emergency Reception Centres

Info and Contacts

June/July 2016

Dying in Silence: dozens of migrants continue to lose their lives at sea
Landings, transfers, reception: the emergency approach only produces violence
A minor logic: young people in flight detained, with no dignified reception
Parliamentary visits at Pozzallo, Mineo and Lampedusa
Messina: New funds for the reception system, and rumours of a future Hotspot
Events: Two international meetings in Palermo: “In flight from Libya, who really are the presumed boat drivers?”, a EACEA KideM project; and “Borders, Reception and Rights in Sicily and Europe”, a day of workshops and dialogue organised with the Evimed project.
News: a course in Global Management, an education program designed for young graduates from Algeria, Tunisia, Turkey, Egypt and Morocco
Info and contact

May 2016

Lampedusa: migrants protest against inhumane treatment, for dignity and clarity

Hundreds of new deaths and disappearances. An unacceptable daily tragedy

Unaccompanied minors: extended detention at Pozzallo and delays in funds for the management of Sicilian migrant centres

The CARA* at Mineo is confirmed as the new Hotspot. Accounts of the use of force, and deportations from Ventimiglia

A dignified welcoming becomes merely a mirage: the case of the Gambian migrants in Palermo, and the minors at Fondachelli

News and events: Borderline Sicily, along with Oxfam Italia and the Diaconia Valdese, launches the #OpenEurope project. Seminar in Catania on reception and rejections

Info and contacts

April 2016

Isolated, abandoned and sleeping rough: Italy fails to welcome those who need protection

“We fled to survive”: thousands of migrants continue to arrive on the Sicilian coast

The massacres are commemorated, but the deaths at sea continue: Europe raises new barriers

News: the accusation against a Borderline Sicily worker is filed. Lamin's experience: a refugee in Italy, but imprisoned in Mali by bureaucracy

March 2016

• Thousands of new arrivals and still deaths: the silence before and after the arrival continues

• Migrant Minors: trapped in the meshes of a system that wants them invisible and without rights

• Announcement renewals and lack of regulation: when the context makes a difference-the case of the province of Enna

• News and events: the campaign LasciateCIEntrare presents its report.. Borderline Sicilia kicks off a new project with Oxfam Italy and the Valdese deaconry
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February 2016

- The implementation of the hotspot device; still many unaccompanied minors among those rejected
- Forced identification and lacking protection: the case of Pala Nebiolo of Messina
- New migrants arriving, more dead and injured. The militarization of arrivals continues
- The drama of long waiting times: challenge for a worthy reception that does not exist  read more ...

January 2016

- Hotspots, rejections and relocations: Fortress Europe controls and discriminates against migrants in flight
- “We are refugees but we are not free”: the Eritrean migrants' protest continues, while Frontex declares a
zero tolerance approach on identification
- A country which rejects people and a system which fails to welcome them
- News and events: the second edition of “Arte Migrante”  read more ...

December 2015
-        Europe wants new hotspots: Italy continues to violate the rights of migrants.
-        Lampedusa, Agrigento and Syracusa: rejections, detentions and expulsions among migrant protests and institutional indifference.
-        New arrivals: ever greater confusion and less respect human dignity
-        Unaccompanied minors: when the most vulnerable are the first to be turned away. read more ...

November 2015

- Hotspot, rejections and deportations: Further infringements and illegal methods in Italy
- Worrying about the ones arriving and commemorating those who have not survived the escape
- Establishing a life in Italy: the best practices of some centres in the province of Ragusa
- Exploiting migrants are an open secret. The case of the camp in the town of Campobello di Mazara
- News and events: the ‘Roadmap’ is coming and the right to asylum is utopian read more...

December 2014

Investigation "Mafia Capital": revealing the big business of reception centres for migrants and asylum seekers. On Mineo, Melilli, Catania and across the island.
The landings continue: What awaits those who manage to survive?
An inflexible and impenetrable system: The reception of migrants and asylum seekers in Agrigento and Caltanissetta
Giving voice to their own rights: migrants' protests in Piana degli Albanesi and Catania
New territorial commissions: What will change for migrants?
Racism and Xenophobia observatory: Aggression and devastation in Avola and Messina
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October 2014

TO LAMPEDUSA FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE MASSACRE OF OCTOBER : AN OCCASION FOR NEW MOBILIZATIONS
THE BEGINNING OF NEW MILITARY OPERATIONS: MOS MAIORUM AND TRITON
ONGOING SHIPWRECKS AND LANDINGS
THE PRECARIOUS AND DIFFICULT SITUATION OF INSTITUTIONALIZED HOSPITALITY
RACISM OBSERVATORY: ONGOING CASES OF EXPLOITATION, RACKET AND XENOPHOBIA
NEWS AND EVENTS
INFOS AND CONTACTS read more...

May 2014

New tragedies in the Mediterranean
Eternal reception “Chaos”
More Nigerian Citizen expulsions
Racism and xenophobia watchdog: grave episodes at Siracusa
Forthcoming events: “IO STO CON LA SPOSA” read more...

April 2014

* A permanent “Emergency”: between rhetoric and reality
- April arrivals at Sicilian ports
- Reactivating the strategy of fear
- The emergency system that kills
- Alfano’s latest invention: the Mineo ‘hub’

* Alexander Langer Prize 2014 to Borderline Sicilia read more...

February/March 2014

February

1 February 2014: The Lampedusa Charter is drawn up

AT THE LIMEN – Publication of report on the application of European Return Directives on repatriation in Italy, Cyprus and Spain

Migrants protest fromTrapani to Caltanissetta, via Mineo

March

Surge in arrivals: Overcrowding in Sicilian reception centres

Re-explosion of the “unaccompanied foreign minors” emergency: inadequate reception in emergency facilities

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