Lampedusa immigrant reception center
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The Lampedusa immigrant reception center, officially Reception Center (CDA) of Lampedusa, has been operating since 1998, when the Italian island of
History
Since the early 2000s, with the onset of the ever increasing
By 2006, many people were paying people smugglers in Libya to help get them to Lampedusa by boat.[4] On arrival, most were then transferred by the Italian government to reception centres in mainland Italy. Many were then released because their deportation orders were not enforced.[5]
In 2009, the overcrowded conditions at the island's temporary immigrant reception centre came under criticism by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The unit, which was originally built for a maximum capacity of 850 people, was reported to be housing nearly 2,000 boat people. Most of them were from Ghana, Mali and Nigeria and were working illegally as seasonal farm workers.[6] A significant number of people were sleeping outdoors under plastic sheeting.[7] A fire started during an inmate riot destroyed a large portion of the holding facility on 19 February 2009.
In 2011, the
In October 2013, the center accommodated the survivors of the
In 2014, 170,100 migrants arrived in Italy by sea, a 296% increase compared to 2013. 141,484 of the travellers ferried over from Libya. Most of the migrants had come from Syria, Eritrea and various countries in West Africa.[14]
See also
- Refugees of the 2011 Libyan Civil War
- Terraferma (film)
- April 2015 Mediterranean Sea migrant shipwrecks
- Fire at Sea
- Pietro Bartolo
References
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- ^ European Parliament resolution on Lampedusa, 14 April 2005
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- ^ Bitter harvest, The Guardian, 19 December 2006
- ^ "Assistance For Illegal Migrant Workers in Italy". Médecins Sans Frontières. 23 January 2009. Archived from the original on 21 June 2010. Retrieved 10 October 2013.
- ^ Refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for. "News". Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ "Hundreds more migrants reach Italy from Africa". Reuters. 14 May 2011. Archived from the original on 17 May 2011.
- ^ a b "Gaddafi planned to turn Italian island into migrant hell". Archived from the original on 27 September 2016. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
- ^ Guterres, António (9 May 2011). "Look Who's Coming to Europe". The New York Times.
- ^ https://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jYWyqZanCi2M7i3Z_qsl0FmHlBkA?docId%3D6562488. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
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- ^ "Lampedusa boat disaster: Aerial search mounted". BBC News. 5 October 2013.
- ^ "Analisi: Paolo Gentiloni". Pagella Politica. 22 February 2015. Archived from the original on 21 September 2015. Retrieved 22 April 2015.