News from Italy - Scirocco Nr. 3 2025

Scirocco [ʃiˈrɔkko-Scirocco] is a southeasterly, hot strong wind that carries dust and sand across the Mediterranean Sea to Sicily and the north of Italy for often only a few hours. This short info is published since March 2021, currently every month.

The current issue (in English available soon) of Scirocco deals with the first transfer of migrants to the converted CPR in Albania, the newly launched repatriation programmes to Algeria, Tunisia and Libya and the restrictive nature of the new ‘security decree’. We also provide information on the precarious living conditions of refugees in Italy - in particular homelessness in Palermo.