such as solidarity groups working with migrants and refugees both in Italy17 and in Greece18 and people who have managed to reach Italy and have not be returned back to Greece19, in order to exchange information and confirm the findings collected to that point and evaluate the changes that might have occurred over the past years regarding the relevant practices followed both by the Greek and Italian authorities on the sea border. Patras (15.5.2012) 17 In Rome (5.4.2012) we visited the Centro Astalli whose employee follows up one of the two Afghans readmitted back to Italy from Greece and met with many activists in the field of refugees’ rights, in Venice we met with researchers in the field of human rights and interviewed Afghan refugees. We also met with COGES an italian NGO which is implementing a project at the Port of Venice concerning legal counseling and cultural mediation at the Italian port (17-18.4) as well as with the workers of the Centro Boa in Tessera Venice (18.4) ran by the same NGO. In Ancona we met with members of the “Ambasciata dei Diritti”, (23.4) and we visited the GUS NGO (24.4) implementing partner of a project offering legal counselling to asylum seekers and refugees in the port of Ancona. In Bari we interviewed activists supporting migrants’ and refugees’ rights (25.4). We also met with a worker of the Rete Iside, the NGO working in the premises of Bari’s port, offering legal counseling also to those arriving from Greece (26.4). In Brindisi (27.4) we talked with persons who have managed to stay in Italy and visited a shelter run by Caritas where people from the South of Italy (Emergenza Nord Africa) are staying. On April 28.4, on our way back to Greece, we interviewed truck drivers on board of the ship about the controls on the greek and italian ports, the scanners in the italian ports, the procedure followed and who all expressed to us their preoccupation about the radiation to which they are exposed and the one-sided strict controls (upon arrival at the italian ports, but not upon return). 18 In Patras we met with the employees of UNHCR (11.05.12), Praksis (13.05.12) and Red Cross (11.05.12 and 13.05.12). 19 In Rome (6.4-12.4) we interviewed J., H., A., R., H., all of them afghan refugees who have been living in Italy from 3 to 10 years (practically, since the Bilateral Readmission Agreement was put into force), in Venice we talked with (16.4-18.4) Q., A., Y. afghan refugees who have also reached the Italian port city of Venice under trucks from 7 to 4 years ago, in Bari we had a thorough discussion with M. who has been staying in Italy for some months, but had been also readmitted back to Greece four years ago (25.4) and in Brindisi (27.4.2012) we interviewed Q. who had arrived in the city port of Brindisi as an unaccompanied minor 5 years ago. Interviews were held in Italian and all of them have also explained to us their previous readmission experiences and their voyage through the Italian asylum system once they finally managed to stay. 6