Lampedusa
Violence erupts in a Rome detention center
...to be sent to a temporary holding center for foreign nationals on June 13, 2005, in Lampedusa, Italy. Lampedusa Island, in the Mediterranean Sea between Malta and Tunisia, is one of the...
Vatican criticises racism in Italy
...in clashes with the Camorra, the Neapolitan Mafia. Last February, immigrants set fire to a detention centre on the island of Lampedusa where many had been held awaiting deportation.
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Race Riots Grip Italian Town, and Mafia Is Suspected
...the Neapolitan Mafia. Last February, immigrants set fire to the detention center on the island of Lampedusa, where many had been held awaiting deportation. There are 4 million...
Open City: Designing Coexistence - Part 2, Refuge
...Kilpper opened the section Providing Refuge with a poetic and burning appeal to build A Lighthouse for Lampedusa! Providing Refuge explores how architects respond to the need of temporary...
"Searches are under way, but for the moment we have recovered no bodies," an official with the customs coastguard service in Lampedusa said.
Italy searches for 73 migrants feared dead Taipei Times | 6 months ago
World press photo exhibition
...migrant boat from Libya after hours of search, Mediterranean Sea, Italian waters around the island of Lampedusa, Italy, July 30, 2008. Just off the coast of Tunisia, Lampedusa forms...
We can do better than Italy's warehousing on Lampedusa
"They did not drown. They died of thirst", the UN worker on Lampedusa told me. In the busy shipping lanes of the Mediterranean, 75 Eritrean men, women and children died of thirst in an...
The World from Berlin: 'Italy's Refugee Policies Should Be Put on Trial'
...went one step too far in trying to curb illegal immigration between Libya and the Italian island of Lampedusa. In 2008, 36,952 boat refugees arrived on Italy's shores, with the lion's...
Fighting the tide
...Italy has refused to accept migrants, even when they have been intercepted closer to the Italian island of Lampedusa than to Malta. It says that under international maritime law,...
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Migrants moved to Italy after standoff with Malta
...Monday. Twenty more who were ailing, as well as a pregnant woman, had been taken to the Sicilian island of Lampedusa late Sunday, port authorities said. The Turkish ship Pinar had been...
Italy Agrees to Take Migrants, Ending Standoff With Malta
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said that the injured had been taken to Lampedusa, an Italian island, and the others were being taken to a reception...
Row strands saved migrants at sea
Each year thousands of migrants try to enter the EU through Lampedusa A group of 140 migrants is spending a fourth day stranded on board a Turkish cargo ship as a row rages over which...
Lampedusa is gateway to Europe for Africa's migrants
With its flat-roofed houses, couscous restaurants and spiky cactus hedges, Lampedusa has a distinctly North African look and feel. By Nick Squires on Lampedusa Last Updated: 3:59PM BST...
