Finance police arrested ten people in the southern region of Puglia on charges of aiding and abetting illegal immigration and fraud. The suspects allegedly issued fake job contracts to over 400 migrants so they could secure stay permits.
A 35-year-old from Gambia has died in a fire at a camp of migrant farmworkers in southern Italy. The man is the tenth person to die in a fire at a camp in the Foggia area since 2016.
The Italian police have arrested four people and carried out 70 searches in dismantling a criminal network involved in forging Italian documents for undocumented foreigners in the country.
UNHCR has said that two million refugees will be in need of resettlement next year. That's 36% more than the number of those in 2022, the UN agency said.
Eighteen EU countries and three associated countries have agreed on a 'temporary mechanism of solidarity' to respond to migration challenges faced by Mediterranean member states.
Former Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini faces defamation charges because he called ex-Sea-Watch captain Carola Rackete a 'rich and spoilt communist', among other things. Now, the court wants senators to decide whether Salvini's comments were protected by parliamentary privilege.
The Italian chapter of UNICEF has released a handbook to help young migrants and refugees find work or the right schooling in Italy. The goal is to support the thousands of teens who arrive without their families each year.
Nearly 30% of people working in agriculture in Italy are migrants and refugees, according to Italian farmers confederation Coldiretti. While most of them are farmworkers, there are reportedly 17,000 foreigners who own agricultural businesses in Italy too.
The Italian ombudsman for detainees said that migrant arrivals in Italy have seen a large increase in recent years and that they "will not decrease in the next few years". Spaking to the country's parliament he urged for legal pathways to the country.
The Serbian authorities reported in late June that there were just over 7,000 refugees in the country, a 55% increase over the same period of the previous year, mostly due to the war in Ukraine.
Nearly 950 undocumented Tunisian migrants, including 354 minors, arrived in Italy in the month of May, reports an NGO in Tunisia. That's an increase of more than 50% on last year's numbers.
This is the story of Nazifa Noor Ahmad, an Afghan woman who arrived in Italy as a child in 2008 to be treated for a severe form of Hodgkin lymphoma. The young woman died at age 20 on Wednesday (June 15), only a few days after a lung transplant she had undergone.