#Immigration

UK barge for asylum seekers. The Church’s condemnation: “An affront to human dignity”

The ‘Bibby Stockholm’, a large metal barge meant to accommodate hundreds of asylum seekers, has arrived in the south coast…

Peace. Card. Zuppi: “Let’s not allow hatred to prevail”

“We don’t realise or have forgotten what it’s like to live under constant shelling, to see our parents being killed.…

Eurostat: immigration to EU, “flows intensify”. Germany, Spain and France top destinations

COMECE. Msgr. Crociata: “Our commitment towards unity and peace – the major challenges facing Europe today”

“The EU was born as a peace project. Our experience today, and in this year in particular, is a sad…

Bazan (COMECE): “Saving lives at sea is an obligation. But relocation schemes are not working”

“A port is safe if, once they disembark, migrants are not subjected to persecution and if their life and freedoms…

Reasons for taking in migrants: a global emergency?

Data released by international institutions active in the area of human mobility – especially dealing with situations of emergency linked…

Right of Asylum: 103 million refugees across the world. Over 296,000 in Italy, including 171,000 Ukrainians

In 2022, more than 4.4 million Ukrainian refugees were granted temporary protection in Europe. A total of 10 million refugees…

Immigration. Caritas/Migrantes: “Fewer foreign nationals in Italy due to demographic decline and the pandemic”

The findings of the 30th Report on Immigration released by Caritas Italy and Migrantes Foundation, “Towards an increasingly greater us”,…

Albanians in Italy thirty years later. They were not “invaders”

Thirty years ago, 20,000 Albanians boarded the Vlora vessel, landing on Italian shores in search of their very own America.…

Organizing migrant reception: the added value of humanitarian corridors 

The Covid-19 pandemic keeps making headlines, and rightfully so. However, the international arena is facing additional major challenges. Migratory flows…

George Floyd reaction in Europe. Msgr. Antoine Hérouard (France): “Here racism targets strangers”

“The situation in France, and in Europe as a whole, is significantly different. Here discrimination is not based on skin…