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Lampedusa might have objected that, though he had no remedies to propose, he was writing with an actively involved conscience, and that the glimpses he gives of southern misery, though few, have a ...
Social media posts have wrongly suggested 7,000 migrants arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa during the space of 36 hours in mid-March.
Lampedusa has seen an influx of migrants with 7,000 people arriving in two days, prompting its mayor and the United Nations refugee agency to warn the Italian island is becoming overwhelmed.
The tiny Italian island of Lampedusa should be a holiday paradise. The most southerly territory of Italy lies exactly between that country and north Africa.
On Lampedusa, there's sympathy for migrants — as long as they don't stay Some 12,000 migrants — more than twice the population of this island — arrived in a single week this month.
The United Nations refugee agency on Friday said it was imperative that the thousands of migrants who have arrived in recent days on the Italian island of Lampedusa be relocated because of its ...
On Lampedusa, the lucky few who made it across the sea live in misery Overcrowding, lack of food and police violence plague the people who fled to Italy praying for a better life.
Lampedusa's mid-20th-Century novel The Leopard became a bestseller, then a revered film – and is now a lavish Netflix series - why does it remain relevant today?
Thousands of migrants from North Africa have landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa. Italy has no clear plan for what happens next to them.
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen has pledged action to help Italy’s crisis-hit island of Lampedusa during a visit on Sunday, after the island was left struggling to cope with an influx of migrants.
European Union Commision President Ursula von de Leyen and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni toured a migrant center Sunday on the small Italian island of Lampedusa. The center was recently ...