Italy’s overseas migrant centres

Italy has opened the first of two controversial migrant camps in neighbouring Albania –
a move it hopes will reduce the number of illegal sea crossings to its shores


Italian PM
Giorgia Meloni

Cost to Italy: Believed to be upwards of €650 million

Albanian PM Edi Rama


Two camps: Operate under Italian and EU legislation as if on Italian soil

Florence
ITALY
Rome
Naples
Tyrrhenian Sea
Sicily
Adriatic Sea
Tirana
ALBANIA 
100km 60 miles


Gjader: Accommodation for 3,000 deportees – OPENING DELAYED

Adriatic Sea

Shengjin: Quarantine area – OPEN NOW

ALBANIA
10km 6 miles


SHENGJIN QUARANTINE CENTRE
50m 160 ft

Habitation
Screening and processing
Italian police


Number of migrants crossing into Italy, 2023: 153,000

Number of migrants Albanian centres can process: 36,000 per year

Why Albania is allowing scheme: To boost its image overseas as it negotiates for membership of European Union


Sources: BBC, Reuters, Times 
Pictures: Getty Images, Google Earth Pro 
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