Abstract
Abstract Migration has been and will continue to be one of the key issues for Europe in the coming decades. Fundamental developments such as economy, climate change, globalization of transport and communication, war and instability in the neighbouring regions, are all factors that continue to drive people to come to Europe, in search of shelter and a better life or to reunite with their families. In recent years, vulnerability of forced migrants has been exacerbated by worsening conflicts in their home country, which make repatriation less and less a viable option, and by mounting intolerance within local communities. A growing number of potential refugees attempts to escape transit countries to reach the European Union by embarking in dangerous journeys to cross the Mediterranean Sea and illegally enter the European Union. Within the European Union resettlement represents a 'durable solution' for vulnerable forced migrants alongside local integration and voluntary repatriation, a protection tool for potential people whose lives and liberty are at risk. In Italy, a group of institutions from civil society and the Italian Ministries of Foreign Affairs and of Interior signed a Protocol of Agreement for the establishment of Humanitarian Corridors to ensure the legal and safe resettlement of asylum seekers. Our article will show how these Humanitarian Corridors proved to be a successful multi-stakeholder engagement to support safe and legal pathways to protection as well as durable solutions for third country nationals in need of protection.
Highlights
The European Union (EU) has faced many challenges and conflicts since its beginning
The unstoppable movement of refugees, asylum seekers, and other migrants across the securitized European southern borders have instigated a debate about the limits of obligation, acceptation, human rights, national sovereignties, or the European values, precipitating and contributing to the ongoing European humanistic crises
Humanitarian Corridors was born as a pilot project at the end of 2015, it was a risky investment in financial and human terms
Summary
The European Union (EU) has faced many challenges and conflicts since its beginning. The level of disagreements and distrust deriving, in particular but , from a not well management of migration flows, are presently high. Humanitarian corridors in peacetime as a (local) civil society response to a EU’s common failure massive influx of asylum seekers. This is anomalous but shows very well the Catch-22 of EU countries faced between national sovereignty and European integration policy. As Monish Bhatia points out “the urgency of the language of ‘crisis’ disguises years of restrictionist policies and sheer political inaction to resolve a complex humanitarian situation. The decision of British citizens to leave the EU has added another unprecedented disruption whose effects remain all but settled In our view, it is not a crisis but a new structuration of power relations in the neighbourhood areas of the EU. Migration is just a consequence and not a source of the crisis
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