Asylum seekers’ experiences on the migration journey to Italy (and beyond): Risk factors and future planning within a shifting political landscape

Ortensi, Livia Elisa; Kingston, Lindsey N.

doi:10.1111/imig.12849

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“…First, because of the traumatic experience they faced before and during migration, refugees have poorer mental and physical health than other migrants (e.g. Bratsberg et al, 2017; Connor, 2010; Hugo, 2011; Ortensi & Kingston, 2021; Ruiz & Vargas‐Silva, 2018). Second, other characteristics, in many cases unobserved, such as the reason for migration, help to explain differences between different categories of immigrants.…”

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Even worse than the undocumented? Assessing the refugees’ integration in the labour market of Lombardy (Italy) in 2001–2014

Ortensi

Ambrosetti

2021

International Migration

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The paper aimed to assess possible gaps in labour market integration or refugees compared with other migrants, including irregular migrants in the Italian region of Lombardy in 2001–2014. Despite the Italian labour market's remarkable capacity to integrate foreign workers, our findings support the results of studies carried out in other contexts on a ‘refugee gap’ in labour market integration. Our research shows that refugees have more considerable difficulties integrating into the labour market than other migrants and notably compared with their co‐nationals, including those undocumented that may be in refugee‐like situations. Refugees show higher unemployment levels, irregular employment and a higher incidence of very low monthly work‐related incomes compared with other regular migrants. At the same time, they show higher levels of unemployment compared with irregular migrants.

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Even worse than the undocumented? Assessing the refugees’ integration in the labour market of Lombardy (Italy) in 2001–2014

Ortensi

Ambrosetti

2021

International Migration

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“…If smuggling does not necessarily imply victimization (cf. Alagna, 2020, p. 309; Aloyo & Cusumano, 2021), the case of crossing the sea along the Central Mediterranean route should be regarded as widely victimizing for smuggled people (OHCHR, 2021; see also Ortensi & Kingston, 2022. Cf.…”

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From smuggled migrants to ‘alleged smugglers’: Empirical evidence and policy perspectives on the criminalization of people on the move in Italy

Alagna

2024

International Migration

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Since 2014, numerous people on the move have been accused of migrant smuggling in Italian courts for steering makeshift vessels or for assisting in navigation across the Mediterranean Sea. This is the case regardless of the fact that such behaviour was the result of coercion or threats. In this contribution, drawing upon extensive empirical research and following a socio‐legal paradigm, I first explore the criminalization of people on the move in relation to migrant smuggling charges in the years following the so‐called 2014–2015 refugee crisis and discuss the impact on their rights. Second, I tackle the issue from a policy perspective, considering three potential EU/national policy reforms and the ways in which they could successfully address an existing policy problem. Such reforms vary in scope, from a damage limitation logic to a fully fledged change of paradigm, and the three can be described as follows: alignment of EU and national frameworks with the United Nations Protocol against migrant smuggling; a more significant differentiation between migrant smuggling and the facilitation of undocumented migration; and an explicit exoneration from criminal liability for people on the move accused of migrant smuggling. This article presents innovative insights, providing on the one hand an up‐to‐date empirical understanding of this form of criminalization of people on the move and, on the other, extensive reflections on the way in which policy reforms could prevent it.

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Socio-economic Inclusion of Migrants in the Adriatic-Ionian Area: Dynamics, Policies and Challenges

Bianchini,

Cittadini,

Zoppi

2024

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Asylum seekers’ experiences on the migration journey to Italy (and beyond): Risk factors and future planning within a shifting political landscape

Abstract: The Mediterranean migration 'crisis' 1. garnered renewed international attention in the summer of 2018, beginning when the Aquarius -a search-and-rescue vessel operated by Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders)

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Even worse than the undocumented? Assessing the refugees’ integration in the labour market of Lombardy (Italy) in 2001–2014

Even worse than the undocumented? Assessing the refugees’ integration in the labour market of Lombardy (Italy) in 2001–2014

From smuggled migrants to ‘alleged smugglers’: Empirical evidence and policy perspectives on the criminalization of people on the move in Italy

Socio-economic Inclusion of Migrants in the Adriatic-Ionian Area: Dynamics, Policies and Challenges

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