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What's happening on Lampedusa – and what Europe needs to do now to manage migration

Editor’s note: “This is an adapted version of an article originally published in Spanish on the 28th of September, 2023. It takes in an EU policy development that occurred subsequent to the publication of the first article.

The Conversation

Refugees who died off Italy 10 years ago remembered as new crisis flares

A decade after two tragic shipwrecks that shook Europe, Lampedusa is at the centre of a humanitarian crisis again.

Al Jazeera

More than 2,500 migrants crossing the Mediterranean died or went missing this year

The staggering toll increased more than 60% from last year, when fewer migrants attempted the dangerous journey to Europe. This year so far, the majority of migrants are arriving in Italy.

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On Lampedusa, there's sympathy for migrants — as long as they don't stay

Some 12,000 migrants — more than twice the population of this island — arrived in a single week this month. Islanders showed compassion, but prefer that any newcomers leave as quickly as possible.

WEKU

On Lampedusa, the lucky few who made it across the sea live in misery

Overcrowding, lack of food and police violence plague the people who fled to Italy praying for a better life.

Al Jazeera

On Lampedusa, a familiar disillusion 10 years after its first refugee tragedy

Islanders lament how little has changed despite the crackdown promises of politicians – whom cynics accuse of chasing votes

The Guardian - UK

Here on Lampedusa, the crisis we face alone is a humanitarian one – not a migrant invasion

Thousands of desperate people have arrived, yet hostile Italian and EU leaders offer no help – to them or to islanders, writes former mayor of Lampedusa Giusi Nicolini

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From welcoming refugees to the crisis in Lampedusa, six years of French immigration policy

French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced on Tuesday that France would not be taking in any of the migrants who arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa last week. FRANCE 24 looks back at six years of French U-turns on immigration policies.

France 24

European Commission announces €127m aid to Tunisia to reduce migration as rescue groups warn of death toll at sea – as it happened

Commission says it is ‘cracking down’ on smuggling networks as NGOs say more assistance is needed from Europe’s leaders

The Guardian - UK

Giorgia Meloni: I won’t allow Italy to become Europe’s refugee camp

Prime minister says Italy ‘under incredible pressure’ from large number of arrivals from north Africa

The Guardian - UK

Ten years after tragedy, tiny Lampedusa at centre of migration crisis again

More than 11,000 people have landed on the island in recent days – a decade on from when hundreds were killed in a shipwreck

The Guardian - UK

Pope goes to Marseille to talk migration, but will Europe listen as it scrambles to stem an influx?

Pope Francis is travelling to the French port city of Marseille to join Catholic bishops in a meeting focusing on the Mediterranean and migration

The Independent UK

A flood of misinformation about migrants in Lampedusa

Thousands of individuals, predominantly from sub-Saharan Africa, have recently arrived on the small Italian island of Lampedusa, reigniting the discussion on the EU and European states' approach to handling illegal immigration. Amidst this context, people online have been sharing three deceptive videos with the intent of disparaging migrants arriving in…

France 24

Italian PM warns migration an issue for all of Europe on Lampedusa visit

Far-right Giorgia Meloni says crisis cannot be ‘just resolved within Italian borders’ on visit to island where 8,500 arrived in days

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The Independent UK

What's behind the surge in migrant arrivals to Italy?

Thousand of migrants reached the Italian island of Lampedusa on more than 100 boats this week

France 24

Italian island struggles to cope as migrant surge doubles population

A migrant reception centre in Italy’s southernmost island of Lampedusa was overwhelmed Thursday as authorities worked to transfer to the mainland thousands of people who arrived on small, unseaworthy boats in a 24-hour span this week.

The Independent UK

A flotilla of migrant boats from Tunisia overwhelms an Italian island and tests Meloni's policy

A flotilla of flimsy boats, crowded with migrants and launched from Tunisia is overwhelming a tiny Italian island south of Sicily

Al Jazeera

‘Don’t come back without your brother’: Anguished search for lost Tunisian

Rashid is on a desperate quest to find his brother Nader, lost at sea, who left Tunisia by boat to join him in Italy.

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The Independent UK

Italy probes a migrant boat disaster that left 41 feared dead. Four survivors tell a harrowing tale

Prosecutors in Sicily are investigating the capsizing of a boat that left 41 migrants missing in the Mediterranean Sea

The Independent UK

41 dead in migrant shipwreck according to 4 survivors who set off from Tunisia

Forty-one people are believed dead after a migrant boat capsized off Tunisia

The Guardian - UK

More than 40 feared dead after boat sinks in Mediterranean near Lampedusa

Four people rescued say vessel had set off from Sfax in Tunisia and had taken on water in stormy conditions

Evening Standard

Two dead and 57 rescued after migrant shipwrecks off Lampedusa in Italy

At least two people died and 57 were rescued after two shipwrecks off the southern island of Lampedusa in Italy.

Reuters

Banksy's migrant rescue ship seized by Italy's coast guard in Lampedusa

A rescue ship funded by British street artist Banksy was seized in Lampedusa on Sunday after Italy's coast guard said the boat had disobeyed its instructions to head to Sicily after carrying out a migrant rescue operation.

Reuters

Italy Coast Guard rescues 211 migrants off Lampedusa island

Italy's Coast Guard said on Friday it rescued 211 migrants off the island of Lampedusa, saving them from a ship struggling in rough seas.

The Guardian - UK

Baby among nine dead from cold and thirst on boat in Mediterranean

Survivors tell Italian authorities vessel carrying about 50 people lost its way trying to cross from Tunisia

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