#Reception

The testimonies of persons fleeing the war

Mobile phones ring non-stop at every border crossing with Ukraine. People calling are mostly friends or acquaintances, sometimes friends of…

Ukraine: Caritas Romania ready for refugee emergency phase two. Fr Dunca to SIR, “we are getting ready to receive” those who flee the war

The days of the exodus

Precisely 75 years ago (February 10, 1947) the Paris Peace Treaty between Italy and the Allied Forces marked a point…

Migrant shipwreck in the English Channel. Sarah Teather ( JRS-UK): “How did we reach the point of giving no value to human lives?”

Sarah Teather, Director of the Jesuit Refugee Service in the United Kingdom, firmly denounces last week’s tragic death in the…

“Boomerang effect and aberration”: the Poland-Belarus wall in the eyes of host communities

“Africa is exemplary in its reception of refugees despite extreme poverty. It’s the continent that builds refugee camps instead of…

Belarusian-Polish border crisis: how did it reach this stage?

People are camped on Belarusian territory, guarded by the military. Reports from yesterday, November 18, suggest that the migrants have…

The military barrier stretches from northern to southern borders. So that no one may enter

Acting as “gendarmes” in place of their distinguished US neighbours. Or rather, “doing the dirty work”, in exchange for aids,…

Refugees: fewer reception network recipients in 2020. Increasing numbers of unaccompanied foreign minors

SIPROM/SAI annual Report, promoted by ANCI and Italy’s Ministry of the Interior, provides an overview of the migrant reception system…

The exodus of migrants, crisis at the borders of the Andean states. Cry of alarm from the Church

“Most of them are families, women, children, pregnant mothers, disabled persons, some in wheelchairs.” That’s what everyone says when asking…

Lesbos: EU Commission relocates 407 minors from Greek island. Refugees camping out on the streets. Schinas, European support to Athens

EU: international protection to 295,000 persons in 2019, mostly from Syria and Venezuela. Most welcoming countries: Germany, France and Spain