Tag Archives: USA
The Arab Spring and beyond: human mobility, forced displacement and humanitarian crises
By Nando Sigona Migration in its various forms has been part of the popular uprisings that have spread across North Africa and the Middle East in 2011. First, the columns of vehicles escaping from cities and villages under siege in … Continue reading
Filed under migration and mobility, politics
Undocumented and unafraid
The fascinating story of Washington Post journalist and Pulitzer prize winner Jose Antonio Vargas between a successful career and the fear of being apprehended because undocumented on The Guardian
Filed under migration and mobility
Lead-contaminated Roma camps in Kosovo shut down
The EC and USAID are finally closing down the Roma camps in Mitrovica and constructing alternative housing in the so-called Roma Mahalla, the neighborhood in Kosovo from which Roma families were expelled during the war, Human Rights Watch reports: http://www.hrw.org/node/94528?tr=y&auid=7496343
Filed under Kosovo, people & space
Kosovo’s poisoned generation / Una generazione avvelenata
A small child is sweeping the yard outside her home – anywhere else the scene would be touching – but here in the Cesmin Lug refugee camp in northern Kosovo, it is tragic.
A Mitrovica, i rom vivono in campi avvelenati dai residui di un’azienda mineraria. Nel campo ce li ha messi la comunita’ internazionale. E ora di farli uscire! Continue reading
Filed under Kosovo, people & space, politics, urban spaces
