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Lampedusa and the migrant crisis - ethics, representation and history

open access: yesMobile Culture Studies. The Journal, 2016
The tiny Italian island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean has become notorious in the early twenty-first century through a series of migrant disasters which, until the events of 2015, came to typify the scale and horror of forced migration on a scale not
Tony Kushner
doaj  

REVISIONE PRELIMINARE DELLA BIODIVERSITÀ ENTOMOLOGICA DELL’ISOLA DI LAMPEDUSA (SICILIA - ITALIA) PRELIMINARY REVISION OF ENTOMOLOGICAL BIODIVERSITY IN THE LAMPEDUSA ISLAND (SICILY, ITALY) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Lampedusa è un'isola appartenente all'arcipelago delle Pelagie, che è particolarmente interessante per l'aspetto faunistico, in quanto crocevia tra la fauna Europea e Africana.
Li Causi, F   +2 more
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Urgent need for preservation of grapevine (Vitis vinifera L. subsp. vinifera) germplasm from small circum-Sicilian islands as revealed by SSR markers and traditional use investigations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Since the last decades grapevine germplasm is undergoing a process of rapid genetic erosion. This process is of particular concern in minor circum-Sicilian islands, because of the sharp reduction of the cultivated surfaces and the shift of their economy ...
Carimi, F.   +7 more
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The presence of abandonment: Left to live at the borderland of Lampedusa

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 126, Issue 4, Page 622-634, December 2024.
Abstract Drawing from the extensive literature on the anthropology of borders and border death in and beyond Europe, this article ethnographically explores the processes through which irregular migrants and locals at the borderland of Lampedusa (south of Sicily, Italy) are left to live and die in abandonment.
Alessandro Corso, Nayanika Mookherjee
wiley   +1 more source

Cross-sectional survey of canine leishmaniasis in Pantelleria island in Sicily

open access: yesVeterinaria Italiana, 2020
Dogs are the major reservoir of Leishmania infantum, the causative agent of canine visceral and cutaneous human leishmaniasis in the Mediterranean basin.
Fabrizio Vitale   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Acacia cyclops A. Cunn. ex G. Don (Leguminosae) in Italy: first cases of naturalization [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Linosa (Pelagie Islands, Strait of Sicily). A decade later, this alien plant should no longer be considered as a casual, since a very intensive process of self-sown regeneration has been observed in some plantations on Lampedusa, the major island of ...
BADALAMENTI, Emilio   +2 more
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Tsunami propagation and flooding maps: An application for the Island of Lampedusa, Sicily Channel, Italy

open access: yesEarth Surface Processes and Landforms, Volume 49, Issue 14, Page 4842-4861, November 2024.
The graphical abstract summarizes the tsunami inundation risk assessment for Lampedusa Island. It highlights the study area (Hellenic Arc and Lampedusa), the high tsunamigenic risk of the Hellenic Arc and socio‐economic importance of Lampedusa. The modelling methodology includes the adoption of DELFT‐3D, MIKE 21 FM and HEC‐RAS software.
Laura Borzì   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recent Arrivals of Migrants and Asylum Seekers by Sea to Italy: Problems and Reactions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The Italian government’s answer to the mass arrival of undocumented migrants and asylum seekers since the beginning of the present wave of political turmoil in North Africa must be seen in the context of both domestic political issues and international ...
Monzini, Paola
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The Bostrichidae of the Maltese Islands (Coleoptera) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The Bostrichidae of the Maltese Islands are reviewed. Ten species are recorded with certainty from this Archipelago, of which 6 namely, Trogoxylon impressum (Comolli, 1837), Amphicerus bimaculatus (A.G.
Abivardi   +291 more
core   +3 more sources

Historical and contemporary factors generate unique butterfly communities on islands [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Vodă, Raluca et al.The mechanisms shaping island biotas are not yet well understood mostly because of a lack of studies comparing eco-evolutionary fingerprints over entire taxonomic groups.
Dapporto, Leonardo   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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