There is an emergency in Italy: in a 48-hour span during the first week of October, 11,000 migrants were rescued from the Mediterranean by the Italian Navy and NGOs, including Doctor Without Borders. Twenty-eight dead bodies were also pulled from the water. More than 132,000 people have arrived on the Italian coast in 2016, and only the 40 percent have been given recognized refugee status. This is only a small part of the problem, and those who aren't recognized as refugees become invisible.
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The Emergency of Being a Migrant in Europe
There is an emergency in Italy: in a 48-hour span during the first week of October, 11,000 migrants were rescued from the Mediterranean by the Italian Navy and NGOs, including Doctor Without Borders. Twenty-eight dead...
by Associazione Antigone
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