‘Do-gooders’ no more: Lampedusans turn against refugee tide as patience wears thin

The Italian islanders have turfed out the mayor who offered a haven to migrants, and now they want other Europeans to share the burden

Anyone looking for an insight into the growing disillusionment of ordinary Italians as their country is left to deal alone with a summer surge of migrants on its southern shores should contemplate the fate of Giusi Nicolini, the former mayor of Lampedusa.

Earlier this year Nicolini won Unesco’s Félix Houphouët-Boigny peace prize for the “great humanity and constant commitment” with which she has managed a migration crisis that began in earnest during the summer of 2011, as the Arab spring turned north African societies upside down.

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