Migrants

We live in an era of mass migration. According to the United Nations’ World Migration Report 2022, there were 281 million international migrants in 2020, equaling 3.6 percent of the global population. That’s well over twice the number in 1990…

By Maxine Lowy In a house of a verdant upscale neighborhood of Santiago, Chile, Nancy accompanies a retiree. In Venezuela she was a nurse, until basic materials- alcohol, cotton, syringes, and food to prepare healthy meals for patients- became scarce,…

Today, talking to two firemen while I was filling up my car with petrol, I brought up the subject of migrants and they both said that they were the country’s biggest problem, and one of them referred to migrants with…

The Italian parliament has just passed a controversial law to crack down on irregular immigration. Known as the Cutro decree, after the southern Calabria town where more than 90 people died in a shipwreck in February, the legislation severely limits…

Girmitiyas” are all people whose ancestry dates back to the Indian system of forced labour contracts (1834-1921). There are an estimated 12-15 million descendants worldwide, although there are no confirmed figures. The Indian indenture system was a system of servitude…

This week Chile and Peru decreed a state of emergency on their borders due to the migratory situation that is being experienced, in a deplorable action, and which deepens the signs of failed states, without the capacity to assume the…

The presence of displaced Syrian refugees in Lebanon is becoming a political issue in Beirut. Racist campaigns against their presence have been countered by demonstrations of solidarity. The government has made the decision to repatriate all those who are not…

The president of Centro Astalli, Father Camillo Ripamonti, appeals to “foresight” and “courage” in the introductory pages of the 2023 Annual Report on Refugees, now in its 22nd edition. By Miriam Rossi Characteristics are needed to look to the future…

A massive caravan of migrants, which travelled the roads of the southern Mexican state of Chiapas on Monday with the aim of reaching the United States, reached an agreement with Mexican immigration authorities on Thursday, which will allow the undocumented…

The search and rescue organisations SOS Humanity, Mission Lifeline and Sea-Eye are taking legal action at the Civil Court in Rome against the Italian authorities’ systematic policy of assigning distant ports. The Italian authorities assigned Ravenna in northern Italy to…