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Migrants descend onto Italy's Lampedusa

2012-07-27 48 Dailymotion

Following uprisings in Tunisia and Libya, more than 40,000 people have arrived in Italy since mid-January. Most of them have come to Sicily and the tiny island of Lampedusa.<br /><br />Many have already been deported.<br /><br />Lampedusa relies on tourism for its livelihood in the summer, and the influx of migrants has destroyed this year's tourism season<br /><br />But as Al Jazeera's Laurence Lee reports, the people there do not blame the refugees - they blame their government.

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