More Vulnerable People, Less Protection. Prolonged Detention in Pozzallo and Augusta.

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Fifteen migrants dead at sea, including women and children. The notices of death in the Mediterranean are ever more frequent and standardised, and the images of rescue missions and the disembarking leave only a minimal functional space to call into question European responsibility and to commend Italian work. Faces and bodies quickly disappear, usually destined […]

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Those Who Die, Those Who Arrive and Those Who Remain: The Overcrowded Hotspots at Pozzallo

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“What Europe just doesn’t understand is that for migrants arriving in Libya it’s less risky to try and escape across the sea that to try and go back to their home countries”, says A., a young Senegalese man who arrived in Italy two years ago. Like many of his countrymen, he’s following the rescue operations […]

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“Half a Human”

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It is already 7 pm but the sun is still blazing. Not a single shadow on the highway that leads from the tiny city center of Marina di Modica to the heartland. In front of us, S. rides his bicycle with his backpack on. He is soaked in sweat and forced to to cover the […]

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The Extraordinary Reception of Unaccompanied Minors: The Ragusa Prefecture Looks to Open New Centres

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At the end of July, the Chamber of Deputies approved the legislation of a new decree related to urgent financial measures, proposing “extraordinary measures for the reception of unaccompanied foreign minors”. These emergency measures have a a decidedly unconstitutional aspect, as ASGI* has also observed in an open letter, and which practically gives a free […]

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The Parliamentary Commission Fails The Pozzallo Hotspot: New Minors Accepted Yesterday

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On June 23rd the parliamentary commission for the inquest into migrants visited the Hotspot of Pozzallo, in order to investigate the reception centre given over to official identification. The inspection revealed a critical and concerning situation within the centre: structural inadequacies, problems with the water supply, violations and privacy and prolonged detention of unaccompanied minors. […]

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Minors in the Pozzallo Hotspot. On the “unwelcoming” road.

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“I arrived a month ago, after having been in Sudan and for months in Libya. On arrival I was locked in a large room with hundreds of other people, many of them my age, others older. There were also women and children. They gave me a change of clothes and a telephone card, saying that […]

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From Pozzallo to Mineo via Ventimiglia. Migrants detained, deported and isolated.

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The images which arrived from Ventimiglia and Genoa this week are images of a police state: beatings, evictions, raids, deportation flights and forced identifications imposed on around a hundred migrants, including pregnant women, children and vulnerable persons. Identifications, barracks detentions and deportation orders have also been distributed to a large number of activists and citizens […]

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Unaccompanied minors at Pozzallo: for weeks inside the hotspot

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The last disembarking at the harbour of Pozzallo dates back to February 24th with the arrival of 313 migrants on board of the ship Diciotti belonging to the Coast Guard. Amongst these there were 33 unaccompanied minors who added up to a lot of others arriving in the previous days, in a week that has […]

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Reception in Pozzallo becomes more and more militarized

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Today, the second boat within four days has arrived at Pozzallo. On Wednesday, January 17th not less than 367 refugees where brought to the seaport aboard the navy boat Cigala Fulgosi, whereas another 105 migrants have arrived aboard Siem Pilot, a norwegian navy boat making part of the Triton/Frontex programme. Although they arrive on navy […]

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Visit to the extraordinary reception centre run by the “Arc en Ciel” cooperative in Acate

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February 8th took us to the extraordinary reception centre (CAS) situated in Acate (Ragusa), managed by the cooperative “Arc en Ciel”, which already manages other CAS in Giarratana, Ragusa and Modica. Our visit was authorised by the Prefecture and through a spoken agreement with the employees of the managing body. The building is situated along […]

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