Experts say better response needed to the ongoing migration crisis

Dozens of residents of the tiny Italian land of Lampedusa protested past week pursuing a surge successful migrants arriving connected their shores.

More than 8,500 radical arrived connected 199 boats implicit a play of 3 days, much than the island’s full population.

While Lampedusa has precocious borne the brunt of the astir 126,000 migrants arriving successful Italy truthful acold this year, organisations connected the land said residents had offered them assistance.

"The effect was 1 of contiguous solidarity that aimed to code the needs, oregon astatine slightest tried to conscionable the requirements of the individuals who had conscionable arrived,” said Felice Rosa of the Maldusa Association.

The influx prompted Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to telephone connected European countries to stock the responsibility.

But French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said France would not invited immoderate of this latest question of migrants.

Instead, helium said Paris was acceptable to assistance Rome instrumentality radical to countries with which France has bully diplomatic relations, citing Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal.

Experts believe, however, that this whitethorn not beryllium feasible.

"Legally speaking, it's astir improbable that this could beryllium done, unless determination are circumstantial agreements that France has been making with those peculiar countries,” said Michele Levoy, Director of the Platform for International Cooperation connected Undocumented Migrants.

“But determination are standards, informal processes for returning people, that should person the highest quality rights standards arsenic well," she added.

Contrary to what galore believe, migrants arriving successful Europe are successful information conscionable a tiny fraction of the fig of radical leaving their countries, but determination is inactive a large request for a coordinated policy.

"People are going to proceed leaving their homes. But we besides request to recognize that astir radical bash not travel to Europe. Most spell to neighbouring countries,” said Camille Le Coz, Associate Director of the Migration Policy Institute, Europe.

“So, what we request to deliberation of arsenic Europeans is however we amended organise a strategy erstwhile radical get to European shores truthful that we debar the benignant of changeless governmental crisis, we support seeing."