In Germany, the Federal Ministry of the Interior has presented a draft law which, among other things, could penalize sea rescue with up to 10 years in prison. The paragraph is embedded in further tightening of asylum law. This must…
By Alarm phone Tunis In recent months, Tunisia has come under increasing scrutiny from European countries. Faced with the increase of crossings along the Tunisian route, particularly active between Sfax and Lampedusa, the EU and its member states have stepped…
Italian government’s dream, migrants’ nightmare, harassment of the Civil fleet By MEDITERRANEA Saving Humans At the very moment when the spread of the global state of war with the tragedy in the Middle East distracts public opinion attention from the…
By MEDITERRANEA SAVING HUMANS Three levels of interpretation must be considered in the face of the “surprise move” announced by Italian Prime Minister Meloni together with Albanian Prime Minister Rama November 6th in Rome. They presented a memorandum that envisages,…
By Sophie-Anne Bisiaux, Giuseppe Caccia, Chiara Denaro and Hagen Kopp The manufactured crisis and the solidarity response in Lampedusa In the week of the 11th to the 17th of September 2023, more than 11,560 people made it bravely to Lampedusa.…
by the migration-control.info project and Alarm Phone Tunis The economic crisis in Tunisia is worsening and racist attacks against Tunisia’s Black population are again escalating. Especially in Sfax, Black people are suffering from racially motivated violence. Systematic collective expulsions to…
Tunisian lessons on Lampedusa and ambivalences of an open situation in the Mediterranean By Mediterranea Saving Humans “The goal is for the Mediterranean to be a calmer sea, said the Italian Foreign Affairs Minister Antonio Tajani on the eve of…
By Mediterranea Saving Humans As accustomed as we are to the bizarre, inappropriate and sometimes offensive statements of the Italian Minister of the Interior, the sentence pronounced by Matteo Piantedosi last March 25th in front of the ‘School of Political…
Since February 2023, Tunisia has faced a strong escalation of racism and violence against black people both on an institutional level and from inside society. An increasingly dictatorial president is copying racist conspiracy theories of European fascists alleging “population exchange”…
By Mediterranea Saving Humans Exactly two weeks after the Cutro shipwreck, a new massacre. While, at the time of writing, the sea off the coast of Calabria has so far returned the bodies of 79 people, mostly women and children,…
