[EN] Mini-guide for those arriving in Italy on the shores of Sicily or Lampedusa: basic information, legal support, what to expect in the first moments after landing.
Maldusa is a cultural association aimed at facilitating freedom of movement, supporting existing infrastructures for migrant solidarity, as well as researching and documenting border violence, on land and at sea, on the Mediterranean routes.
Lampedusa has historically been narrated and understood merely as a border zone, with a binary representation between island of peace and island of violence. The spectacularization of crisis and emergency has oftenled to a lack of understanding of the local, continuous, daily struggles of people who inhabit and cross the island...
In Palermo, the Maldusa cultural association seeks to bridge a multitude of local and transnational realities that derive from anti-racist struggles, migrant activism and solidarity, as well as building bridges between communities on the move and their places of departure...
The Mediterranean Sea is a contested space, inhabited by a variety of actors who struggle for and against freedom of movement. Every day, people who cross the sea, authorities who surveil and abandon them, NGOs who search and rescue, fishermen and merchant vessels crews, either attempt to defy borders or, willingly or not, reinforce them...
BUILDING BRIDGES, BURNING BORDERS - MALDUSA ONE YEAR BOOKLET
'BURNING BORDERS'
We dedicate this slogan to the daily struggles of people, who in North Africa are called Harraga - "border-burners" - while crossing the border without a visa and burning their ID documents afterwards not to be deported.
In this booklet, we narrate the first year of Maldusa, its vision and its projects.
With one station in Lampedusa, a second station in Palermo, a boat at sea and dozens of informal and formal relationships with solidarity infrastructures and people on the move, we created solid platforms for monitoring and reporting border violence, as well as for supporting and facilitating freedom of movement.
NEWS and PUBLICATIONS
Chiara Denaro and Judith Gleitze
ECHOES n.14 - CIVIL MRCC
02/11/2024
Evacuation, not Externalisation
From June to now, we have seen a significant increase in arrivals compared to previous months.
ECHOES n.13 - CIVIL MRCC
27/07/2024
Summertime 2024: the frequency of civil fleet rescue cooperations in the Central Mediterranean is increasing again to almost a daily level. A Tunisian Search and Rescue Region is established to extend the EU push-back regime. After the Tories were voted out of office, the UK-Rwanda agreement is finally dead. The Meloni government counts on the...
In an important decision published on the 13th of June 2024, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe assessed that Italy had failed to adequately implement the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights J.A. and others v. Italy (Appeal No. 21329/18) regarding the detention and conditions inside the Hotspot of Lampedusa and called on...
FRIENDS
CIVIL MRCC
The Civil Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (CMRCC) is a coordination and documentation platform for people in distress in the Central Mediterranean Sea.
Ragazzi Baye Fall
Since 6 years in Palermo, a self-organised solidarity group of the Baye Fall diaspora.
Welcome to Europe
For freedom of movement: Independent information for refugees and migrants going to Europe.
Borderline Europe
Civil resistance against the European migration and border policy since 2007
Mem.Med
Searching and identifying missing migrants at the Mediterranean border.
Louise Michel
Solidarity and Resistance at Sea - combining lifeguarding with the principles of feminism, anti-racism and anti-fascism.
In Limine / ASGI
Addressing issues relating to borders control and access to international protection.
