We tried, but it didn't go well. The story of Samir, Lutfi and Omar is one of three economic migrants, of three young Algerians that through different routes have infiltrated themselves among refugees in order to get to Europe, among those who have escaped wars and bombing, from thirst and the dead, to the desperate search for a future that continues to slip out of their hands. They live in an old silos that is just ten meters squared. The roof has holes in it, eroded by the rust that floats in the air and gets everywhere. They escaped difficult living conditions in the South of Algeria: the motive therefore was not war, but social rebirth. Now what the call "home" is a rancid storage tower on the outskirts of town, where they live like squatters without running-water and electricity in the No Border Social Centre of Mytilene. In a compound of a ruined building blocks and old abandoned factories live around two-hundred squatters entrenched in arranged accommodation and in make-shift tents, these migrants and refugees escaped from refugee camps in the north of the island of Egeo.

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Mytilene. On the island of Lesbo, the hotspot "Moria" located around ten kilometers north of Mytilene. The agreement for the control of refugees that was signed in March 2016 between Europe and Turkey transformed it into a center of detention under military custody, in the "Guatanamo of Lesbo" as exposed by the recent media debate on the subject. Today, the same media have access to the structure.

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"For two years now, here in Chios, we have slept with the door open. Nothing ever happened, because we know everyone. Today however almost everybody has alarm systems or insurance on their house: we're afraid of what we can't see and what we can't control. In the few months we have suffered violations and theft from refugees who aren't escaping any war. The island of Chios used to be a beautiful place to live or spend a holiday. But not anymore. This cruel game between Turkey and Europe has transformed our island into a filtering system for migrants and refugees." This is not the voice of a mayor, an assessor or a politician: these words are from ordinary people, the couple Nanà and Giorgios Agios who live in the Old Town of Chios. Report by Luigi Avantaggiato and Benedetto Sanfilippo

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The third millennium, awaited as no other century ever before with a thrill of futuristic hope in the power of modernity, all-out technology and progress, has instead brought us into a feverish and unexpected era: that of Exodus. The Exodus is desecrating and overwhelming the frontiers, the structures of a world where models taken as absolutes are collapsing or trembling on their hinges. 

On the one hand there are people, the refugees, driven either by their last shred of hope or maybe an extreme reaction to eternal despair, who make a long journey towards their destiny.

On the other there are the places that become lands of arrival, havens, like Uganda, the world’s 163rd poorest country, for decades confined to the margins of the globe, but today a leading player on the contemporary scene.

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