Maldusa is a cultural association aimed at facilitating freedom of movement, supporting existing infrastructures for migrant solidarity, as well as researching and documenting border violence, on land and at sea, on the Mediterranean routes.
Lampedusa has historically been narrated and understood merely as a border zone, with a binary representation between island of peace and island of violence. The spectacularization of crisis and emergency has oftenled to a lack of understanding of the local, continuous, daily struggles of people who inhabit and cross the island...
In Palermo, the Maldusa cultural association seeks to bridge a multitude of local and transnational realities that derive from anti-racist struggles, migrant activism and solidarity, as well as building bridges between communities on the move and their places of departure...
The Mediterranean Sea is a contested space, inhabited by a variety of actors who struggle for and against freedom of movement. Every day, people who cross the sea, authorities who surveil and abandon them, NGOs who search and rescue, fishermen and merchant vessels crews, either attempt to defy borders or, willingly or not, reinforce them...
NEWS and PUBLICATIONS
Mustafa al-Trabelsi died in the tragic flood in the city of Darnah.
"She can't say she's coming with 45million euros for Lampedusa that are actually for migrants," exclaims Martello, the former mayor of Lampedusa, inscribing Meloni and Van der Layen's catwalk as "yet another initiative that humiliates and demeans us."
Arrivals in Lampedusa: Solidarity and resistance in the face of Europe's reception crisis!
18/09/2023
Following the arrival of a record number of people on the move in Lampedusa, civil society expresses its deep concern at the security response of European states, the crisis of reception, and reaffirms its solidarity with people on the move arriving in Europe.
A few weeks ago, the owner of one of the bars in the old port, was talking about human trafficking and money laundering between institutions and NGOs in relation to what had happened during that day. It was the evening of Thursday 24 August and Lampedusa had been touched by yet another 'exceptional' event: 64 arrivals in one day. Tonight,...
After a few days of bad weather, with the return of calm seas, people on the move again started to leave and cross the Mediterranean from Tunisia and Libya.
Christ died of cold (1)
29/08/2023
The 65 landings on Lampedusa and the structural inadequacy of the hotspot system
FRIENDS
CIVIL MRCC
The Civil Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (CMRCC) is a coordination and documentation platform for people in distress in the Central Mediterranean Sea.
Ragazzi Baye Fall
Since 6 years in Palermo, a self-organised solidarity group of the Baye Fall diaspora.
Welcome to Europe
For freedom of movement: Independent information for refugees and migrants going to Europe.
Borderline Europe
Civil resistance against the European migration and border policy since 2007
Mem.Med
Searching and identifying missing migrants at the Mediterranean border.
Louise Michel
Solidarity and Resistance at Sea - combining lifeguarding with the principles of feminism, anti-racism and anti-fascism.
In Limine / ASGI
Addressing issues relating to borders control and access to international protection.