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Summer School on Forced Migration and Asylum: a Multidisciplinary Approach 3-8 July 2017 – BOLOGNA (IT)

Italian press agency ANSA, French TV and radio station France24 and German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle teamed up to build InfoMigrants, an online platform featuring news for migrants coming to Europe

InfoMigrants, reliable news for migrants

The “One Europe - Different Policies - Unequal rights for refugees” campaign aims at revealing the differences between refugees’ rights across Europe.

What are refugees’ biggest concerns? The RISE network launched a campaign to talk about it

Credits: UNHCR/Babar Baloch

“What the European Union is experiencing at the moment is a lack of trust”. A chat with MEP Elly Schlein on the reform of the Dublin Regulation

Ahmad Liath was twelve years old when he left Iraq in 2005. Two years before that year, the United States invaded Iraq in 2003 and in 2004 his father was killed.

Ahmad Liath: “I left Iraq because I long for freedom”

Where can Asylum Seekers work?

Communicating asylum

Summer School on Forced Migration and Asylum: a Multidisciplinary Approach 3-8 July 2017 – BOLOGNA (IT)

Why take part? The Summer School, organised by two organisations active on the frontline of reception and integration of asylum ...

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InfoMigrants, reliable news for migrants

How and where can migrants willing to come to Europe get objective and verified information about transit and final destination ...

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What are refugees’ biggest concerns? The RISE network launched a campaign to talk about it

Written by the Greek Forum of Refugees, member of the Asylum Corner Network. The “One Europe - Different policies - ...

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Reporting on migration: magnifying glass or distorting lens?

On January 25th, the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) brought together a large group of experts and well-known ...

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Death at sea should not be normal. So we go and rescue them.

Around 2,500 in 2014; 5,429 in 2015; and 2,861 in these first few months of 2016[1]. These are not just ...

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Is welcoming asylum seekers a positive choice? A video explains why the answer is “yes!”

“The State steals our money to pay for the reception of asylum seekers, which is totally useless, while we are ...

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One agenda or several agendas on migration? A year in review

Accounting for the complete set of deeds and political responses to the migration situation in Europe since the beginning of ...

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The EU Agenda on Migration: a debate on the current situation and future developments

On May 4th, the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, in collaboration with the association ‘Asilo in Europa’, will hold a public ...

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Summer School on Forced Migration and Asylum:
a Multidisciplinary Approach.
11-16 July 2016 BOLOGNA (IT)

Why participate? The Summer School, which received the support of several partners involved in the field of asylum and integration, ...

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How can we know about the real situation of refugees? Let’s listen to their voices!

Written by the Greek Forum of Refugees, member of the Asylum Corner Network. The Greek Forum of Refugees considers refugees ...

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Want to be a migrant for an hour? Art can help you do that. Medex Museum’s latest experiment.

A poster at the entrance of the exhibition invites the visitors to stop being themselves and become the person described ...

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Crowdfunding for migration – The new Migfunder Initiative

At the end of December 2015, three asylum and migration experts belonging to the EurAsylum research and consultancy group launched ...

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“Welcoming is not simple”: experts discuss the reception and inclusion of asylum seekers in Brussels

On February 10th 2016 the representative of the Emilia-Romagna Region hosted a public assembly, organized by the Italian social cooperative ...

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Massive Attack and the refugee crisis: Duley’s pictures in the British band tour

The British duo Massive Attack, pioneers of the trip hop genre in the 1990s who have always been sensitive to ...

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Conference “Welcoming is not simple. The challenge of inclusion of asylum seekers in the EU and at the local level”

The challenge posed today by the reception of asylum seekers in Europe puts under severe scrutiny the work and functioning ...

Communicating Asylum

Asylum seekers on the catwalk at Pitti Uomo

On January 14th, the renowned annual Pitti Fashion Show hosted a very unusual runaway show: Generation Africa. On the catwalk ...

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Hierarchies of suffering

Written by our partner Migszol, the Migrant Group Solidarity of Hungary In late October, European leaders met to discuss the ...

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Syrians in Transit. A photographic display of desperate journeys

A photo exhibition of broken families. This is what the project “Siriani in Transito” has sought to be since the ...

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A free Online University tailored to refugees’ needs

Holding a university degree is a major asset when entering the labor market. But obtaining a university degree is not ...

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Social innovation for refugees: a successful story

Social innovation can be a breakthrough in the development of projects devoted to helping refugees. Until now, one of the ...

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Citizens hosting refugees in Air B&B style: a new challenging solution?

A few weeks ago, many European newspapers reported the interesting story of three young Germans who started a communication project ...

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Countries of Origin

Tiny Gambia and the absurdity of its regime

In 2014 and 2015 the number of asylum applications from Gambian nationals in the European Union reached figures as high ...

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Nigeria a safe and sound democracy? No, not exactly so.

In 2015, 29,925 Nigerian nationals applied for asylum in the European Union according to Eurostat figures. But “Nigeria is a ...

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Asylos – Filling the gap in the Country of Origin Information system

Country of Origin Information reports are a great support for the legal experts, both lawyers and judges, dealing with asylum ...

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Rule by fear: a bloody snapshot from Eritrea

With a population of 416,857 (of an estimated population of 6.3 million) fleeing their country in 2014 in search of ...

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The Syrian Conflict: between Al-Assad’s troops and the Islamic State

Last March, Syria entered the fifth year of the conflict that has been relentlessly tearing the whole country apart. With ...

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Security in Afghanistan: a Country Report

Country of Origin Information (COI) reports are fundamental tools for processing asylum requests and working every day with asylum seekers ...

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Institutions and Policies

“What the European Union is experiencing at the moment is a lack of trust”. A chat with MEP Elly Schlein on the reform of the Dublin Regulation

On May 4th 2016, the European Commission issued a legislative proposal to reform the current Dublin III Regulation, which establishes ...

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Ambassador Matheel Dhayif Al-Sabti: Iraq will not accept forced deportations from Finland

Written by Enrique Tessieri from the Migrant Tales Blog, member of the Asylum Corner Network Migrant Tales had the opportunity ...

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Can we really “help them in their Countries”?

As we have seen in previous articles, cooperation with third countries is a significant element on the European agenda on ...

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The UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants and the New York Declaration: well-meaning intentions but what else?

On Monday 19th September, world leaders convened in New York to attend a United Nations General Assembly, which specifically addressed ...

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A year after the creation of the European Trust Fund for Africa – where are we at now?

One of the main outcomes of the Valletta Summit which was held in November 2015 and which brought European and ...

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The confiscation of assets from asylum seekers in Denmark: Only a symbolic tip of the iceberg

On Tuesday January 26th the Danish Parliament passed a bill which aims to alter the whole Danish asylum system. The ...

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“On the migration issue, Member States are hiding behind each other’s back”. An interview with Malin Björk

Malin Björk has been a Swedish Member of the European Parliament since 2014. She belongs to the European United Left/Nordic ...

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“Securitization is not the answer, it’s largely part of the problem.” A chat with Pamela DeLargy, Special Advisor on migration at the UN

Pamela DeLargy is currently the Special Advisor for the UN Special Representative on Migration, Peter Sutherland, and has previously worked ...

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testo

The voice of the European Parliament on Migration: An interview with the MEP Cécile Kyenge

Asylum Corner: As co-rapporteur of the Initiative Report for Migrations in the Mediterranean Sea at the European Parliament, what do ...

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The European Asylum Support Office: a dialogue with the Spokesperson Jean-Pierre Schembri

Following our first article on the structure and main tasks of the European Asylum Support Office, we interviewed Jean-Pierre Schembri, ...

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The European Asylum Support Office: what it is and how it works

EASO — short for European Asylum Support Office — is the agency of the European Union based in La Valletta, ...

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Principles and evolution of the European legal framework on asylum and migration

On November 4th, the French association France Terre d’Asile (FTA) hosted a symposium to discuss the state of asylum law ...

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Digital Humanitarianism: time to scale it up?

2015 and 2016 will probably be remembered as years fraught with astonishing technological innovations addressing the various needs of the ...

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“From Europe to local: Migrating Solidarity”

Very often, TVs and newspapers deal with asylum and migration as something that relates to the highly political spheres, such ...

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Anti-migrant violence, hatred and sentiment in Europe in 2016

Written by ENAR, the European Network Against Racism, member of the Asylum Corner Network On the occasion of World Refugee ...

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Asylum seekers in Hungary: an update on a very difficult situation

Written by our partner Migszol, the Migrant Group Solidarity of Hungary Many people are still passing through Hungary every day, ...

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Muslims in Europe: Questions and Answers

Written by ENAR, the European Network Against Racism, member of the Asylum Corner Network As anti-Muslim manifestations increase in Europe, ...

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“Europe’s Gatekeeper”. Amnesty International’s insight on asylum seekers’ detention in Turkey

At the end of the year 2015 the European common migration policy has been dominated by the stiff conviction that, ...

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Bringing the voices of the refugees to Brussels: the work of the Jesuit Refugee Service Europe

Since 1980 the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) has worked on the dual commitment of providing relief to refugees all over ...

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Legal Entry Channels for asylum seekers to be boosted according to FRA Report

The deaths of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea have reached record numbers in 2014, topping 3.000 casualties during the year ...

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An International Opinion Tribunal for the migrant victims in the Mediterranean Sea

“We must work on the institution of an International Opinion Tribunal for the new desaparecidos of the Mediterranean Sea”. This ...

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The Asylum Diaries

Ahmad Liath: “I left Iraq because I long for freedom”

Written by Enrique Tessieri from the Migrant Tales Blog, member of the Asylum Corner Network Ahmad Liath was twelve years ...

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Mental health support to asylum seekers: what kind of support is most needed?

Imagine the (now nearly emptied) Calais “jungle” and mental healthcare services in one single sentence: your reaction would probably sound ...

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What will it be like without the volunteers? The case of Soup and Socks in Greece’s refugee camps

If you often wonder how so many people can survive without starving in the makeshift camps of asylum seekers in ...

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Manufacturing fashion: an opportunity for asylum-seekers

This year, the European Development Days 2016 that will take place in Brussels on June 15th and 16th will pay ...

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“We Are in Europe, We Have Rights” – Field Report from Idomeni

Written by the Greek Forum of Refugees, member of the Asylum Corner Network. “Crossing the Border is forcing people to ...

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“No one in the street” claims the Belgian Government, but is it really so? An interview with Nicolas Jacobs from Fedasil

The current European migration crisis has not left any country unscathed. Today we will focus on Belgium and in order ...

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Reception and Living in Families (RLF) for Unaccompanied Minors

Written by Liedewij de Ruijter de Wildt, member of staff of our partner Nidos, the Dutch national organization for unaccompanied ...

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Guardianship for unaccompanied minors in the Netherlands: the role of Nidos

Political framework and general context In the Netherlands guardianship is arranged by a specific organization, Nidos, which is responsible for ...

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Beyond the wall: Solidarity with migrants in Hungary

The voice of Migszol rises like a spark of solidarity in the night of the political and social xenophobic trends ...

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The cost of asylum seekers’ reception: Know the figures to avoid political manipulation

“Most boats and dinghies shipping migrants through the central Mediterranean Sea land on the Italian shores. The first and second ...

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Greece today: not only crisis

The Greek Forum of Refugees (GFR) is a network of refugee communities in Athens, Greece. It was founded in 2010 ...

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When the migrants land on the Sicilian shores: from the docking to the relocation

We hear about the landings of migrants on Italian shores every day in the news but nobody really knows how ...

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Integrating refugees in the Dutch society: the role of Humanitas

With a population of around 16,8 million, in 2014 the Netherlands received 24.495 asylum applications and approved 18.900 of them ...

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Fedasil Reception House in Rixensart (Belgium): A history of integration

Rixensart is a small town of around 20,000 inhabitants in the prosperous Belgian province of Walloon Brabant. The town hosts ...

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