Debate with Nancy Porsia, journalist
This is the second event in the international project “Controversies in
European migration politics – providing protection vs. border security” (KideM).
The European Community and Italy have made agreements with Libya for
years. Already in 2009, Berlusconi and Gaddafi, the former leader of the Libyan
regime, signed an agreement which promised the payment of millions of Euros in
compensation for Italian colonialism, while asking at the same time,
nevertheless, that Libya halt the “flow of migrants”.
In 2011, during the so-called “Arab Spring”, Gaddafi's regime fell and,
along with it, also the wall set up to stop the flow of migrants. Today,
despite the fact that there is still no Libyan state, the EU is attempting to
establish agreements in order to stop those migrants who are leaving from the
African coastlines.
What do we really know of the current situation in Libya? Who is governing it, between military and government forces?
How does this situation affect migrants?
Who are the people organising the voyages of hope and who are the
“presumed smugglers”?
We will discuss all of the above with NANCY PORSIA, an Italian freelance
journalist who lives and works in Libya. During the discussion images and
videos of the situation in Libya will be projected.
Contributors: Lucia Borghi (Borderline Sicily), Doc. Andrea Norzi
(Deputy prosecutor, Trapani) and Judith Gleitze (borderline-europe).
Moderator: Fulvio Vassallo Paleologo (ADIF)
Nancy Porsia is a writer and documentary producer, and a specialist in
the Middle East and North Africa. She is currently working on politics,
security and “irregular” immigration in Libya.
Information: jg@borderline-europe.de,
borderline-sicilia@libero.it,
phone.: 340 980 21 06
Translation: Richard Braude
