This research examines the immigration policy in Italy at the beginning of 2011, where people from North Africa began seeking shelter in Italy as a consequence of the Arab Spring. The country was unexpectedly not ripe to face this situation, leading to a frequent violation of some of the rights of the European Convention on Human Rights. This was demonstrated in an exemplary case lodged with the European Court of Human Rights in 2012: Khlaifia and Others v. Italy, where some migrants complained they had been irregularly detained in a reception center in Lampedusa and subsequently removed to...