In Limine

The main focus of the project was the collection and dissemination of data on human rights violations against migrants in the Lampedusa reception centre and the identification of strategic legal cases that could be used to make complaints and advocacy actions towards policymakers and institutions to improve migration policies.  

The Italian island of Lampedusa hosts one of the few national hotspots built to manage the inflow of foreign people arriving through the Mediterranean sea. Despite the structures was designed to host migrants for maximum 3 days, in fact they cannot leave the island and are forced to live in the hotspot for many months due to delays in the asylum application process. Several institutions and associations as well as the National Guarantor of the rights of persons detained or deprived of liberty have denounced that migrants and asylum seekers, including vulnerable groups (children, women and sick people), have been victims of human rights violations and were forced to live in inhumane living conditions at the Lampedusa hotspot.