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By externalising migration control the EU endangers lives, props up dictators, and empowers far-right parties.
The migratory crisis in Lampedusa prompts us to look beyond the media frenzy and reflect on the real causes and consequences of what is happening on the island.
More than 2 million Ukrainians have fled the country since the Russian invasion. The EU has welcomed the refugees, but research shows that host communities may tire of the newcomers.
While eastern European countries are quick to offer aid to Belarusians, this only highlights their harsh approach to refugees from the Middle East.
The militarisation of borders and securitisation of migration have always failed to stop irregular migration.
After fire destroyed a migrant reception centre on the Greek island of Lesbos, the EU needs a more welcoming approach to asylum.
Official statistics record 377 deaths in the Mediterranean in 2020, but the true figure is likely to be much higher.
Migrants have been left to die in the Mediterranean as Italy and Malta declared their harbours ‘unsafe’ in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
Five years ago, communities in Italy and Greece volunteered to help migrants and refugees. Now that solidarity has disappeared. Why?
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.
London’s superdiversity offers a safe and welcoming space for European citizens – but Brexit poses a real challenge to it.
Only rarely are refugees’ and migrants’ words taken into account about the reception system in Europe. And what they tell us is frightening.
The new Greek government is putting in place new measures to stop the flow of refugees crossing the Aegan Sea.
The ICC may be the only institution capable of breaking the current legal impasse.
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.
Lawyers ask ICC to investigate EU over its policy of deterring migrants from crossing the Mediterrean, the world’s deadliest border.
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Leader of Research Group “The Production of Knowledge on Migration” at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, Osnabrück University, Osnabrück University
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Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham
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