Pushed Back, Pushed Around Italy's Forced Return of Boat Migrants and Asylum Seekers, Liby's Mistreatment of Migrants and Asylum Seekers
- Document number
- 2691
- Date
- 2009
- Title
- Pushed Back, Pushed Around Italy's Forced Return of Boat Migrants and Asylum Seekers, Liby's Mistreatment of Migrants and Asylum Seekers
- Author/publisher
- Human Rights Watch (HRW)
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Irregular Migration, Feminization of migration, Economic migration, Labour migration, Free movement, Undocumented migrants; Undocumented labour;
- Summary
- This report looks at the burgeoning relationship between Italy and Libya, which has as one of its principal components an agreement to cooperate to stop the irregular flow of third country nationals through Libya and into Italy. Italy's interdiction regime came quickly on the heels of a new treaty with Libya, "The Treaty of Friendship, Partnership and Cooperation between the Italian Republic and Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya" (the "Friendship Pact"), signed on August 30, 2008. The Friendship Pact called for "intensifying" cooperation in "fighting terrorism, organized crime, drug trafficking and illegal immigration." The two parties agreed to strengthen the border control system for Libyan land borders (50 percent funded by Italy with funding for the other 50 percent to be sought from the EU), and to use Italian companies in this endeavor.
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