Nick O’Connell
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nick@migrantsofthemed.com
www.migrantsofthemed.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Beyond Blog Launches For Expanded
Migration Coverage
The new, centralized platform launches in 2020 with
expanded Humanitarian Storytelling coverage to Asia-Pacific.
NEW YORK 4 February 2020 – The Beyond, the official blog from Migrants of the Mediterranean (MotM) launches, creating a centralized platform for stories, news and analysis in migration, with newly expanded coverage to Asia-Pacific to further the Humanitarian Storytelling footprint.
The Beyond, was conceived as a platform that goes beyond borders, to publish work from its established correspondents in Italy and the EU who are dedicated to sharing the human stories of some of the world’s most vulnerable. Archived stories can also be accessed on the blog, dating back to early 2017.
Further, MotM welcomes Taiwan-based journalist Ying-Yu Alicia as Asia Correspondent in 2020. Her articles and essays can be found on the blog. Later in 2020 Chen will share migration journey stories from the Asia-Pacific region, expanding the existing historical archive. With this precedent, MotM is only set to grow more.
Readers can visit the blog now and subscribe via email for content alerts.
Migrants of the Mediterranean enters its forth year of humanitarian documentation and is proud to share the launch of The Beyond with readers new and old––an initiative that strengthens the MotM mission to square the migration discourse in human terms.
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About Migrants of the Mediterranean
Migrants of the Mediterranean (MotM) is an online Humanitarian Storytelling publication that documents the individual journeys of people who have crossed continents, countries, desert and sea from their countries of origin to the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, where they are brought post-rescue after escaping Libya. They are also greeted in some instances across greater Italy and the EU, and now in Asia-Pacific.
The primary mission of MotM is to give dignity to the world’s most vulnerable, and to ensure a platform where they may be seen and heard. MotM creates an account for the historical record, and tracks its subjects (some since 2016), documenting all issues of the migrant experience in an effort to inform public policy, scholars and the media, and to provide a stable platform for migrants––the most marginalized of people––to find voice and, finally, home.