Giulia Lagana leads the Open Society European Policy Institute’s analysis and advocacy on E.U. policies on migration and asylum. Previously, she was a senior adviser on migration, asylum, the E.U. and international affairs to the president of the Italian Chamber of Deputies in Rome. She spent four years with the United Nations, working for UNHCR and the U.N. development program (UNDP) in Italy and Brussels, respectively. https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/contributor/giulia-lagana/rss en Crises & Conflicts Laws & Policy Wed, 28 Mar 2018 03:00:00 +0000 Giulia Lagana https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2018/03/28/a-reply-to-pragmatists-on-mediterranean-migration-be-more-realistic https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2018/03/28/a-reply-to-pragmatists-on-mediterranean-migration-be-more-realistic In response to a recent proposal on how Italy can combine effective migration control with human rights, policy expert Giulia Lagana argues that the plan lacks the very political realism that it accuses the human rights community of neglecting. Crises & Conflicts Laws & Policy Tue, 12 Dec 2017 11:22:34 +0000 Giulia Lagana https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/12/12/europes-hypocritical-response-to-reports-of-slavery-in-libya https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/12/12/europes-hypocritical-response-to-reports-of-slavery-in-libya Despite outrage over recent slavery reports, there is nothing new about migrants suffering in Libya. The E.U. has pushed to bring down their numbers regardless of the human cost, says policy expert Giulia Lagana, calling for the response to go beyond migrant returns.