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critical refugee studies, Mediterranean migration, testimony, crisis | @BrownUniversity Italian @CogutInstitute | poet |🎙host @CornellMig https://t.co/wEXWTYqW9v
Sep 30, 2021 16 tweets 6 min read
Sentence is in for #MimmoLucano, former mayor of Riace (Calabria) & a leader in migrant reception & solidarity practices in Italy: 13 yrs 2 mos, nearly twice what prosecutors requested.

It's a harsh statement against migrant solidarity. Background 🧵:
ilfattoquotidiano.it/2021/09/30/lex… As ⬇️ explains, Lucano's trial (2019 - now, based on investigations concerning 2014-2017) has always been viewed as a political trial 2/
infomigrants.net/en/post/32333/…