Research in Sicily finds that anti-immigration policies don’t slow the flow of immigrants, but do hurt local residents in communities where migrants first arrive.
On Samos, new arrivals set up camp where they can.
Gemma Bird
The new Greek government is putting in place new measures to stop the flow of refugees crossing the Aegan Sea.
In this June 2018 photo, a migrant rests at the port of Tarifa in southern Spain after being rescued by Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service in the Strait of Gibraltar.
AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
European states have the legal and moral obligation to resume search-and-rescue operations in the Mediterranean. Spain’s Salvamento Maritimo should lead the way.
A rig off the coast of Cyprus explores the region’s gas potential.
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Carola Rackete, captain of an NGO search and rescue ship, was arrested by Italian authorities when landing in Italy. She isn’t the first to be criminalised for trying to save people at sea.
Migrants disembark back in Libya after being rescued in 2017.
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Gibraltar’s decision to terminate permission for the Aquarius to conduct operations in the Mediterranean is the latest example of national politics undermining rescue at sea.
The Sea-Watch 3 vessel in Malta in late June 2018.
Vicki Squire
Migration is central to Mediterranean history and people have always moved between its two shores.
Could a North-African migrant become the Prime minister of a European country in the 21st century? In the 19th century, a Greek slave rose to the highest ranks in Tunis. The Bey of Tunis, Muhammad Sādiq Bāšā-Bey, greets Napoleon III in Algiers, on 20 September 1860.
A. de Belle Ksar Saïd Museum
Leader of Research Group “The Production of Knowledge on Migration” at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, Osnabrück University, Osnabrück University
Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham