Syrians meet mainly two kinds of smugglers during their trip North: sea and land smugglers. The news usually cover traffickers when they talk about dangerous people gaining from the smuggling of human beings. Human smugglers are usually associated to forced prostitution or forced land working; we think of them as kidnappers who keep people working for […]

The majority of Syrians who have passed through Italy in the past year and a half have left Syria around 2011 and 2012. As we have seen, these people often richer, were able to take flights to Egypt and Libya and from here they decided, sometimes months or years later, to take the road by […]

Between 2012 and 2013 Sweden, declaredthat it would grant political asylum to all Syrians who would have applied for it. Other countries, like Norway, Germany, The Netherlands and France made a similar promise accepting a limited number of requests. To ask for political asylum means to ask protection and shelter to a state because of fear or […]

Most people think that who arrives in Italy through the sea does it because they do not have enough money to pay for an airplane or because they want to try escaping controls at the border. Let’s prove these myths wrong right away by saying that a one-way ticket from Egypt or Libya to Northern Europe […]

In moschea a Catania incontriamo cinque ragazzi tra i venti e trent’anni provenienti da Homs. Stanno seduti sulle panchine della piazzetta davanti alla moschea in calzoni e ciabatte, in una mano la sigaretta nell’altra un bicchiere di tè caldo. Provano uno skateboard abbandonato nei giardinetti accanto, cadono, ridono. Tra chi fugge dalla guerra è raro […]