Margherita Pisoni Archives - A Path For Europe (PfEU)

Access to Covid-19 vaccines for asylum seekers, migrants and refugees

Posted on May 4, 2021 by A Path for Europe

Since the end of December 2020, most European Member states have started carrying out vaccination campaigns following specific orders of priority. European countries have defined targeted groups who should get priority in these vaccination campaigns. For instance, apart from health care and frontline workers, older persons over 80 years of age or essential staff working in schools and universities were identified as categories that should have priority access to vaccines. […]

Intersectionality between migrants and people with disabilities

Posted on March 8, 2021 by A Path for Europe

Migrants and asylum seekers with disabilities often encounter and experience difficulties associated with the social, environmental and political barriers societies create and impose onto them. This adds up to the already existing challenges any migrant faces within the contemporary landscape. […]

Migration: A Wrap Up of 2020

Posted on February 16, 2021 by A Path for Europe

2020 has proven to be a year of great challenges for the European Union and its member states and citizens. While COVID-19 has spread across the Union, important policy developments have been brought forward by the European Commission in the policy field of migration. […]

The perpetuation of fear and disinformation around migration by the media in the EU

Posted on December 21, 2020 by A Path for Europe

Images and videos of French police officers employing violence against migrants protesting in Place de la République in central Paris were broadcasted to the world on November 23. The protest in Paris was organised by humanitarian organizations to claim against the unjust displacement of hundreds of people and alert the public to the plight of migrants and refugees. […]

How have some European Member States reacted to the New Pact on Migration and Asylum?

Posted on December 1, 2020 by A Path for Europe

After almost two months since the launch of the New Pact on Migration and Asylum, questions arise on the possibility for European Member States to leave past controversies behind and move towards a more coherent and cohesive approach to migration and asylum. […]

Memento Moria – The urgent need for reforming asylum in Europe

Posted on September 28, 2020 by A Path for Europe

The recent fire outbreak in the largest Greek migrant camp on the island of Lesvos accentuated the harsh reality many migrants and refugees have been facing over the past years. Images of people running from the fire, sleeping on the streets and walking amid the burned camp should reawaken the European conscience and responsibility to act in front of a dangerous threat for human rights and individuals’ dignity. […]

How has COVID-19 changed migratory movements in Europe and in the world? – The social and political controversies behind migration

Posted on September 10, 2020 by A Path for Europe

COVID-19 has posed several challenges on migratory movements. At the end of June, among the 11,300 people who had tried to cross the sea from Libya, 50% had been sent back and disembarked in Libyan ports. […]

The protection of migrant workers from exploitation in the EU

Posted on August 19, 2020 by A Path for Europe

The European Union has developed a solid legal framework that clearly proscribes labour exploitation and promotes equal opportunities and access to the labour market. The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union prohibits slavery and forced labour (Art. 5). Further, it promotes fair and just working conditions to protect workers, their dignity, health and safety (Art. 31). […]

The Migration-Development nexus

Posted on August 6, 2020 by A Path for Europe

Some experts argue that European governments have played a central role in framing refugees’ and migrants’ arrivals to European countries as a crisis. This framing of the topic has often grabbed the headlines. This framing is strategically used by several right-wing parties to foster a stigmatized categorization of migrants […]