Lifeafterhell-22

Lifeafterhell-22

An asylum seeker lying on his bunk bed in a reception centre in Bergamo (Italy).

Of the over 500,000 migrants who reached Italy embarking from Libya since 2014, around 270,000 thousands filed an asylum request, and as of the end of 2016 around 100,000 are waiting for a decision on their status. This volume of requests, combined with the endemic slowness of the Italian judicial system, has prolonged the waiting time to roughly 2 years.

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