1 July 2021

Johan Leman

Refugee Migrations in(to) Europe: June 16-30

June 16. A little under 700 people arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa early on Tuesday. The reception facility on the island, designed to accommodate around 250 is full […]

16 June 2021

Johan Leman

Refugee Migrations in(to) Europe: June 1-15. EU invests in discouragement.

June 1. Young sub-Saharan migrants wait to disembark from a ship in the port of Arguineguin on the island of Gran Canaria on 28 May 2021. Crédit: REUTERS/Borja Suarez. (InfoMigrants_fr) […]

1 June 2021

Johan Leman

Refugee Migrations in(to) Europe: May 16-31. The Ceuta crisis.

May 16-17. The German ship Sea-Eye 4 has rescued about 330 migrants within the past few days. The latest operation overnight brought 99 people on board: most were reportedly from […]

16 May 2021

Johan Leman

Refugee Migrations in(to) Europe: May 1-15. The Mediterranean sea: Succeed or Perish. Quousque tandem?

May 1.In the period of 25 April – 1 May, 818 migrants were rescued/intercepted at sea and returned to Libya. (IOM_Libya) May 3. The Greek coast guard says it has […]

3 May 2021

Johan Leman

Refugee Migrations in(to) Europe: April 16-30: Europe (Frontex) let 130 human beings drown

April 16. At least 41 people have died after their boat sank off Tunisia’s coast as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to reach the Italian island of Lampedusa. (InfoMigrants) […]

16 April 2021

Johan Leman

Refugee Migrations in(to) Europe: April 1-15. Every boundary is subject to attempts to cross it.

April 1. Five people have died and more than 500 have been returned to Libya in separate incidents in the central Mediterranean in the space of two days. (InfoMigrants) April […]

1 April 2021

Johan Leman

Info Refugee Migrations in(to) Europe: March 16 – 31

March 17. A 2-year-old child in a serious condition was among 10 people who were hospitalized for hypothermia after they were rescued from a boat off the Canary Islands. 52 […]

16 March 2021

Johan Leman

Refugee Migrations in(to) Europe: March 1 – 15. EU tries to facilitate repatriations.

March 1. Between Friday and Sunday, some 550 migrants were rescued in the Central Mediterranean. While the private rescue organization Sea-Watch said it saved some 450 people, a Libyan patrol […]

10 March 2021

Johan Leman

Telling Brussels… MMM Academy

At its inception, the MMM museum took the initiative to have Brussels brought by its inhabitants. They tell about themselves and at the same time bring up the lives of […]

1 March 2021

Johan Leman

Info Refugee Migrations in(to) Europe: February 16-28, 2021

February 17. “Italian authorities arrested three people #smugglers on Monday as part of an investigation sparked after about 100 #migrants were found the previous night, in an area north of […]

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Johan Leman is a social and cultural anthropologist and president of Foyer VZW since 2003, where he was director from 1981 to 1989. He is an expert on integration policy and the fight against racism. From 1989 to 1993 he was chief of cabinet of the Royal Commissioner for Migrant Policy and from 1993 to 2003 he was director of the Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism.

In this blog, he gives his opinion and views on current events in and around Molenbeek.