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Meet the Gambian migrants under pressure to leave Europe

20 July 2017

Migrants who reach Italy are under increasing pressure to return home, but as one told IRIN: “Nobody wants to go back a loser”

Special Report

Italy’s migrant reception system is breaking
15 June 2017
Depriving desperate asylum seekers of healthcare is not the answer to Italy’s migrant reception crisis
Analysis

Explaining the Bangladeshi migrant surge into Italy
1 June 2017
Bangladeshis are suddenly second behind Nigerians in terms of new migrant arrivals to Italy. How come?

Italy and Germany step up measures to deter asylum seekers
13 January 2017 Analysis
Alpine migrant route into France a dead-end for many
30 November 2016 Feature
The problem of medieval villages and earthquakes
26 August 2016 Analysis

News

Cracks widen in “impossible” Italian asylum system
15 August 2016
The EU’s hotspot system has failed to alleviate pressure on Italy, which has resorted to summarily rejecting migrants to free up space in its overwhelmed...
Opinion

IS involvement in people smuggling is a red herring
5 August 2016
EU governments need to focus on how their own policies are contributing to irregular migration and people smuggling rather than blame so-called Islamic State.
News

What happens to teenage migrants in Sicily?
6 July 2016
This year has seen a spike in arrivals of unaccompanied migrant children to Italy which is overwhelming the country’s already stretched reception system.
News

How Italy’s flawed hotspots are creating thousands of “clandestini”
13 April 2016
In Italy, seven months after the first ‘hotspot’ for screening migrants and asylum seekers opened, critics say the system is seriously flawed
Feature

Prostituted, beaten and held for ransom
31 March 2016
As warmer weather brings calmer seas, more and more migrants are setting off again from the Libyan coast in smugglers’ boats bound for Italy. Eight...
Feature

Bye bye dreams
2 March 2016
Mohammed Lamin, a 26-year-old Gambian, spoke to IRIN last year from a rescue vessel in the Mediterranean about his hopes that Europe would change his...

How 150,000 people were saved in the Mediterranean
7 January 2016 Analysis
EU-Africa migrant plan raises worrying questions
12 November 2015 News
"We can do better"
5 November 2015 Opinion
Online media coverage of refugees in Europe
4 November 2015 Maps and Graphics
When did European media start noticing refugees?
4 November 2015 Maps and Graphics
Briefing: The EU refugee deal with Turkey
19 October 2015 Feature

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