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The Violence Reproduced by Emergency
/in Catania/Mineo, Uncategorised /by Borderline SiciliaEmergency considered as the only possible response. It is the institutional reaction at an international, national and local level faced with this continuing, terrifying massacre. It is a response that is being invoked with ever more force in the context of managing the phenomenon of migration in Sicily. If we recall that an emergency is […]
Agrigento, Trapani and Palermo: Arrivals and Rejections
/in Catania/Mineo, Uncategorised /by Borderline SiciliaThe results of the landings in the port of Palermo, Trapani and Porto Empedocle on July 7th: 1,038 Palermo 658 Trapani 246 Porto Empedocle For the Italian state, these are only numbers and frequently it is only as numbers that the people themselves are treated. Sicilian structures are collapsing through overcapacity, subjected to a workload […]
So Many Arrivals, So Little Protection. Migrants In Ever Worse Conditions And Abandoned To Themselves.
/in Catania/Mineo, Messina, Palermo, Uncategorised /by Borderline SiciliaIn only a few days 4,500 people have been rescued and brought to the main Sicilian ports: Pozzallo, Augusta, Catania, Messina, Porto Empedocle and Palermo. The arrival of such a high number of migrants paradoxically corresponds to refugees’ extraordinary invisibility and the lack of protection for them. As always happens when there are various landings […]
Migrants, little water and no breaks during the transfers. A policeman: “If there is any problem, we’ll take care of it”
/in Catania/Mineo, Uncategorised /by Borderline SiciliaFrom MeridioNews “We can’t let anybody get off the bus, otherwise it will end up that everybody needs to go to the toilet”. This is the order of a police officer to the drivers of the 15 buses departing from the Port of Catania after one of the last landings in the Etnean Capital. “This […]
From Pozzallo to Mineo via Ventimiglia. Migrants detained, deported and isolated.
/in Catania/Mineo, Ragusa/Pozzallo, Uncategorised /by Borderline SiciliaThe 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 […]
Landings in Eastern Sicily: Everyone Who Arrives Has Witnessed a Continuous Massacre
/in Catania/Mineo, Uncategorised /by Borderline SiciliaThe week just gone by is being singled out as “one to forget” by the TV and newspapers which provide the continuous facts and numbers of disembarked migrants, the dead and the lost at sea. We have to ask ourselves how it is possible, indeed, that we continue to ignore, to have no memory of […]
Frontex meets with the Associations in Catania
/in Agrigento/Lampedusa, Catania/Mineo, Uncategorised /by Borderline SiciliaPress release On Thursday, 14th January, a meeting took place in the press room of the Catania police station between several associations, police representatives, Mrs Paglialunga and Mr Nicolao, the regional representative of Frontex. The meeting was attended by representatives from the Catanian Rete Antirazzista (Anti-Racist Network) as well as, by the network’s invitation, the […]
Fortress Europe’s Revolving Doors
/in Catania/Mineo, Uncategorised /by Borderline SiciliaThe image which comes to mind so often at the moment is that of a hotel’s revolving door, the kind in which children play endlessly, and when they do finally emerge from all the spinning end up back where they started, but with a dizzy head. For migrants, it’s the same thing but with dramatic […]
Meeting between associations and institutions in Catania on the issue of refoulement
/in Catania/Mineo, Uncategorised /by Borderline SiciliaIn front of the repeating practice of deferred refoulement that has occurred in several provinces of Sicily since the end of September, the association Borderline Sicilia became the spokesperson for numerous associations from Catania and asked for a meeting with the prefect and the superintendent in order to obtain explanations on what is happening. Present […]
October 3rd commemorated through illegal deportations
/in Catania/Mineo, Palermo, Uncategorised /by Borderline SiciliaWe have learned to our disdain that last monday, September 28, the police station at Ragusa gave notice for the rejection of 22 migrants from the CSPA* at Pozzallo. Among them are 9 women, of whom two have been identified as minors, and one is pregnant. Their nationalities: Madagascar, Comoros, Egypt and Somalia. Witnesses confirmed […]