Situation of refugees and migrants in Italy
Here you will find information and updates about the situation of refugees and migrants in Italy.
Scirocco-Timeline: News in Brief (from June 2025)
The "Scirocco" is our brief info from Italy, inspired by the southeasterly wind that regularly blows across the Mediterranean to the north, our Scirocco brings the latest news from the south. Since June 2025, weare reporting in a new format: Instead of once a month, our new Scirocco Timeline provides timely information on the latest political and social developments in Italy relating to migration.
Scirocco Timeline - Quarterly Recap (June-August 2025)
Scirocco - News in brief 2025 (until June 2025)
Scirocco - News in brief 2024
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Scirocco - News in brief 2023
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Pubblications in the year 2025
- ‘Unwanted’ - extraterritorialisation of border procedures and tightening of deportation regulations in Italy. Is resistance still possible?, april 2025
- Power play: how Italy's government uses migration and judicial reforms to dismantle democratic checks and balances for shaping international law, march 2025
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Streiflicht Italien: Verlorene Leben, unerzählte Geschichten, march 2025 - english version coming soon
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Welcomed? An intersectional feminist account of the migrant reception system in Italy. A report by Arci Porco Rosso. October 2025
Publications in the year 2024
- Searching for a home: A travelogue from the islands of migration in southern Italy - pax christi, Issue 03/2024 - Text only in German
- From Tripoli to Sicily: Impressions of a migration policy conference in Mazaro del Vallo, 29.-30.11.2024 - 18.12.2024
- ‘Detention, illegalisation and the so-called CEAS reform in southern Italy - monitoring the situation of refugees in the light of the European migration pact’ - November 2024
- The first tour - The failure of Italian externalization policy in Albania - 24.10.2024
- Prozess Open Arms gegen Salvini – Massive Drohungen gegen die Justiz - 09.10.2024 - Text only in German, translation will follow
- Artificial Intelligence at the EU's external borders: Human rights are non-negotiable - 19.06.2024
- “An incurable phenomenon of systematic, murderous and political violence” - The manipulation of information in Italy, 31.05.2024
- The shipwreck of Cutro: One year after - A report by Arci, 06.03.2024
- In the ruins of the Deportation Detention Centre of Trapani-Milo: voices from inhuman detention, 07.02.2024
Publications in the year 2022/23
- Arrivals in Lampedusa: Solidarity and resistance in the face of Europe's reception crisis!
- “La Sicilia non dimentica - La situazione dei migranti e dei rifugiati alle frontiere esterne dell’Europa”, Rapporto sul progetto 2022 (Italian)
- Joint Press release: Landmark court ruling shows Italian coast guard and navy responsible for deaths of 268 refugees, January 2023
- Reporting on the local elections in Sicily - June 2022: Sicily's local political line is experiencing a significant shift to the right. The election is marked by various inconsistencies and a record low election turnout.
- Basta navi quarantena! - Marzo 2022 (Italian): March 2022: Two years after the establishment of the quarantine ships, we call on the government to put an end to the system of quarantine ships and to put in place procedures that guarantee security, the right to asylum, personal freedom and a dignified reception of persons arriving on Italian territory.
- Privato invece di stato: L'efficacia dell’assistenza a richiedenti asilo e beneficiari di protezione in Italia
Our publications of the past years can be found here.
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