Italy
The Orphans in a Legal Tug-of-War
Hundreds of Ukrainian orphans, many with physical and intellectual disabilities, were evacuated in 2022 from state-run institutions where abuse was common, and placed with foster families in Italy, where they thrived. Now, Ukraine has ordered them repatriated, and the foster families are challenging the order in court.
The Sicilian Migrants to Africa
Long before today’s migration debates, tens of thousands of Sicilians built new lives in Tunisia, shaping a shared Mediterranean culture now largely forgotten.
The Case Against a Carbon Credit Farm in Madagascar
What could be wrong with planting trees? In Madagascar, community groups in one region are fighting an Italian multinational’s attempts to turn their grazing grounds into carbon offsets. But a complicated legacy of land rights is standing in their way.
My Grandpa, the Fascist?
Leafing through an old family photo album led the author to a personal reckoning with Italy’s dark past in Libya — at a time when telling the often forgotten and sidelined story of the country’s fascist exploits abroad seems more urgent than ever.
A Day in Mohammad’s Life in Sicily
Around half the workforce employed in Italian agriculture are migrants. They are denied fair wages and exploited by employers. But in addition to this exploitation, workers are stratified by their country of origin and a new racial apartheid has emerged in one of Europe’s largest exporters of fruit and vegetables.