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- Title
ITALY AND THE AQUARIUS: A MIGRANT CRISIS.
- Authors
Larkin, Alexandra
- Abstract
Italian journalist Indro Montanelli once wrote, "[w]e Italians are tolerant and civil with all those who are different. Black, red, yellow. Especially when they are far away, at a telescopic distance from us."1 In recent years, Italy had a resurgence of nationalist and far-right political leaders, who have taken an anti-immigration stance.2 Public interest in migration of refugees and asylum seekers is due both to media coverage of their stories3 and to litigation4 before international courts.5 One high-profile story that made headlines in the summer of 2018 was Italy's treatment of the Aquarius, a rescue vessel operated by the German non-governmental organization SOS Méditerranée and Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières. This comment will focus on what the international community currently does to protect migrants at sea and what role international law has played and could play in the future. Part I will analyze whether Italy violated Article 33 of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) 1951 Refugee Convention. Part II will analyze whether Italy violated the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) Article 1. Finally, Part III will be a brief discussion of other legal avenues that might be available to refugees.
- Subjects
ITALY; POLITICAL refugees; INTERNATIONAL law; CONVENTION Relating to the Status of Refugees (1951); EUROPEAN Convention on Human Rights; EMIGRATION &; immigration; SEARCH &; rescue boats; IMMIGRATION opponents
- Publication
Pace International Law Review, 2019, Vol 32, Issue 1, p137
- ISSN
1553-7897
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.58948/2331-3536.1397