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How a child dies in Venice
11-year-old Afghan boy dies to avoid controls by the border police
He was fifteen years old. No, he was twelve. Maybe, in reality, he was only eleven. As the day progressed, his age changed several times, turning increasingly younger. In any case, he was a boy. He was found dead in Via Orlanda in Mestre, Venice, run over by the lorry under which he had hidden to escape the checks by the border police. Why, one would wonder, does an Afghan minor, a figure that is well protected by international conventions, by the ECHR, and even by the Bossi-Fini law [on (...)
[ 12 December 2008 ] |
Emmanuel - beaten up and insulted in Parma by the municipal police
Reporting of the man stopped outside his school
A Ghanian student was stopped and taken to the commander of the vigili urbani of Parma with the accusation of drug dealing. An article appeared today on the La Reppublica website reporting the event in detail, in the words of Emmanuel, who had contacted the press. Stopped by people in civilian clothes, he spoke of running away, frightened, and being followed. Handcuffed and beaten, he was taken by car to the commander of the vigili urbani. “I saw two men behind me talking on their mobiles, (...)
[ 3 October 2008 ] |
European delegation for rom blocks the access to Palazzo Madama to Everyone group
Everyone: “Serious violation to freedom of expression supporting racist groups. We will report to European mediator”
With an unprecedented decision, the President for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs of European Parliament Gérard Deprez communicated, a few minutes before the beginning of the official meeting among European MP delegation in Rome to verify rom conditions in Italy and the organizations which handle human rights, the exclusion from the meeting - previewed for Thurday September 18th at 6PM - of Everyone group delegation, invited a few days ago, formed from leaders (...)
[ 19 September 2008 ] |
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Lettera all’UNHCR dei Rifugiati Politici e dei Possessori di Protezione Umanitaria che si trovano nella struttura dell’ex- scalo merci “Porta Romana"
novembre 2007
Dear Sir or Madam,
We are the spokesmen for about 300 people who have been granted Refugee Status or Humanitarian Protection by the Italian government.
We live in Milan, where local authorities, in the last years, have not helped us find safe and dignified living accommodations.
Local authorities have also failed to provide both linguistic and vocational courses, much needed in order to attain our socio-cultural and economic integration in this country (where we are (...)
[ 27 June 2008 ] |
Reggio Emilia - May 01 2008. Irregolar work, extreme precariusness, working men’s death: Stop!
We are the women and men who succeed to don’t suffocate in a container on a truck. We are the women and men who did not drown into the sea. We are the women and men who crossed the frontiers in search of a better future. We are the women and men who work in big cities. We are those who fill the pockets of the illegal part of the economy because for us there is no other possibility to survive. We are obliged to spend a part of our lives lined up in front of the prefecture and now also at (...)
[ 22 March 2008 ] |
Immigration Flows 2006 - Toll free number in Venice
Information service by calling Sportello Unico Immigrazione in Venice
This number is dedicated only to the law for immigration flows (Decreto flussi 2006), which regulates the number of foreigners admitted to have working visa for heach kind of occupation.
Monday 9:00 – 12:00 Tel: 041.5221469
Wednesday 9:00 – 12:00 Tel: 041.5042085
Thursday 9:00 – 12:00 Tel: 041.5221469
It is possible to ask informations about procedures. The public office Sportello Unico, is situated near to Ufficio Territoriale di Governo di Venezia, in Venice - S. (...)
[ 27 March 2007 ] |
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The border right through us
CPTs and new safety devices in our cities
Closing the CPTs has become a priority in the political agenda since 1998, the year in which they were instituted by the Turco Napolitano immigration law.
Melting Pot has followed the issue from 1998 up to today with many reportages and campaigns.
From Bologna to Trieste, through Milan, Turin, Bari Palese, Lampedusa, Modena, Brindisi, Gradisca, every place, every city, every territory in which the rebellion against the CPT took place became our own.
We always called the CPTs “lagers”, (...)
[ 14 March 2007 ] |
Usa - Immigration Reform Surprise: Hard-Liners Lost, Pragmatists Won
From NewAmericaMedia
Editor’s Note: Immigration restrictionists lost badly in the midterms, sending a message in favor of sober, pragmatic reforms that officials must heed, writes Frank Sharry, executive director of the Washington-based National Immigration Forum. IMMIGRATION MATTERS regularly features the views of the nation’s leading immigrant rights advocates.
In the months leading up to Tuesday’s election, the conventional wisdom in Washington, D.C., was that immigration would be a powerful wedge issue that (...)
[ 10 November 2006 ] |
US-Mexico border fence
Will There Be a November Surprise?
Past October 26th, president George W. Bush signed into law a controversial bill authorizing construction of a fence along the U.S.-Mexican border, shining the spotlight on illegal immigration 12 days before the U.S. midterm elections.
At a White House bill-signing ceremony, Mr. Bush said the law, which allows for the creation of a 1,100-kilometre-long fence along a third of the U.S. border with Mexico, would make the frontier more secure.
He called the bill "an important step toward (...)
[ 30 October 2006 ] |
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Rights at risk at port frontiers
Interview to Francesca Cucchi, Venice Cir manager
Let’s interview Francesca Cucchi, manager of Venice Cir, a service which operates at the port and airport frontier pass of this city.
This interview is part of an in-depth path that Melting Pot far-back started on migrant treatment ways at Venice port. People arrive here after a trip where often they loose their life. Many of them come from war zones or particularly problematic territories and are in need of international protection.
But also when the migrants manage to reach the Venice (...)
[ 11 September 2008 ] |
Death at the CPT of Turin: interview to lawyer Gianluca Vitale visiting the structure
Delays in reliefs and revolt of prisoners in the CPT of last generation
Lengthen the stay in a CPT to 18 months?
Remind that a man was found death in10 days in the CPT of Tourin!
A tragic inauguration for the new centre of temporary detention in Turin; this new centre, costed 12 milion of euros, was defined by the prefecture “more safe and civil” and started working, in secret, monday morning.
On this first period of organization, the persons hosted in the centre were 60, but another 70 rooms are under contruction.
At 8 o’clock of saturday morning, in the (...)
[ 27 May 2008 ] |
Decree Law on deportation and the "war against the last"
Marco Revelli interviewed by Melting Pot Europe
Translate: Zmag.org
A Decree Law on the expulsion of [European] Community citizens. European space, European citizenship. We interviewed Marco Revelli, a historian and sociologist who teaches at the East Piedmont University.
D: For one barrier fallen - that which has seen Romania and Bulgaria make their way into the European Union - it seems like other, newer barriers have to be mounted. The politics, the mass media, the community laws, all seem to have short-circuited. You have described this situation as (...)
[ 9 November 2007 ] |
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Australia - Long term detainees finally walk free
From Melbourne Indymedia
On Friday three detainees walked free from immigration detention. All came out of psychiatric hospitals after years in detention. The longest was 6 years. According to Pamela Curr of the Melbourne Asylum Seekers Resource Centre, "Six long hard years of soul destroying, spirit breaking detention for no moral reason. One permanent protection visa and two temporary visas in the Vanstone lottery."
As Refugee Week approaches the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre are doing an audit of long termers (...)
[ 14 November 2006 ] |
Usa - Fighting To Be Legal
From CYMC
Chawntel Stitts, 16, uses the video camera to document the immigrant rights movement in San Francisco through the eyes of the young people demanding change.
Watch the video.
[ 5 October 2006 ] |
UK - Campsfield detainees on hunger strike
From Indymedia Uk
Over 120 people detained at Campsfield removal centre near Oxford have gone on hunger strike in protest at their indefinite detention (without trial) and the conditions they face.
"...Most of us have been here for a long while now. There are people who have been detained for up to two years and down to three months. We are cramped in here like animals. We are treated like animals and moved around different detention centres like animals. The immigration service have taken husbands from (...)
[ 28 June 2006 ] |
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Citizenship for housewives too
Immigrant housewives will be granted Italian citizenship if husbands demonstrate to possess the adequate means of maintenance. It is laid down in a circular issued by the Ministry for Home Affairs, introducing new significant aspects. For example, it enshrines that the income declared by the applicant is to be “updated” before denying citizenship due to inadequate income. Underage children adopted by an Italian can become Italian nationals if the adoption sentence was issued when they were (...)
[ 8 March 2007 ] |
Immigrants, the homeless army
One million people without stable housing or in overcrowded houses
from Repubblica on line, 31st January 2007
The enquiry of Repubblica dealt with housing. Only 11.8% of immigrants own their houses. 72% rent a flat, often in unacceptable conditions
Rome – Some live in their garage. Some on a camp bed in their work places. Some share a room with other nine people. Some are content with just a “shelter for their heads”. Many are the immigrants with housing problems in Italy. One million regular immigrants. The illegal immigrants are invisible for statistics.
House emergency, reported by yesterday’s (...)
[ 31 January 2007 ] |
Sleeping in turn for 150 euros: the pillow-place of immigrants
from Repubblica on line, 30th january 2007
Repubblica inquiry / Crowded together in dirtiness in the centre of Rome
Asiatics and Africans: 60 of them sharing 150 square metres in the Pigneto area
by Emilio Radice
CISSÈ, Mohammad, Azar, Abdou, Bathie, Babacar, Sammadi, Sikdar, Sow, Melick... sixty men packed in 120 square metres. Mattresses on the ground, bare floor, latrine next to the kitchen, cables hanging in clusters from the ceiling and from the bare boxes of the switches. An hidden place, even not that secret, in a roman (...)
[ 30 January 2007 ] |
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Leaving and re-entering Italy while waiting for the renewal of the visa (Permesso di Soggiorno) – The old rules will become effective from the first of April.
The transitory rules established by the Ministerial Memorandum from the 12 December 2007 will expire the 31 of March 2008.
Once again, facilitations to leave and re-enter Italy for visa holders waiting for renewal (those who hold only the receipt testifying that the application for the renewal of the visa has been submitted), are un-understandably destined to expire.
The Ministerial Memorandum from the 12 December 2007 stating that visa holders waiting for renewal are allowed to cross (...)
[ 28 April 2008 ] |
South Europe hesitant on Romania and Bulgaria workers.
From December18
Italy is hesitating whether to let in Romanian and Bulgarian workers from January or follow the UK and Ireland in curbing immigration from the EU’s two newest member states.
Speaking at a conference on migration on Wednesday (25 October), Italian prime minister Romano Prodi said "We will examine this issue closely, because the Romanians make up the biggest foreign community in Italy."
"I have supported an open door policy but this case is complicated as many European countries have (...)
[ 26 October 2006 ] |
Flows Decree 2006
Flows decree 2006 should be enforced very soon, this means that application forms are to be given in during that time. Whereas if you are a new-EU citizen you can start applying to flows decree from February 3rd on. What is “flows decree”? How can non-EU citizens hope to be regularly moving to Italy?
Italian Immigration Act (Bossi-Fini law enforced back in September 2002) provides for that non-EU citizens can regularly enter Italian territories only if they manage to find employment when (...)
[ 3 March 2006 ] |
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Residency cards – Does the law require a certificate of occupancy (certificato di idoneità all’alloggio)?
I am writing from Vicenza. I am a Romanian citizen and I have had a valid residency permit for eleven years. My husband and I have applied for residency cards for us and our son who was born in Italy six years ago. We found out that our applications have been suspended because our home does not conform with the regional requirements of Veneto. Our house is 44,5 square meters and the minimum area required to obtain a certificate of occupancy valid for three people is 46 square meters. We (...)
[ 2 October 2006 ] |
Flows decree - Converting seasonal labour permits to subordinated labour permits
Question - Dearest editorial staff, I always look through your web-page. It is an incredibly important help to migrants. My question is: I wish to employ a seasonal worker. This citizen is in Italy on basis of seasonal labour, she lives in Trentino whereas I live in Emilia. She works in a restaurant. Can I apply to have her permit converted from seasonal to subordinated labour? She would be employed as a janitor. Is this possible?
Just another brief question: can a citizen that comes to (...)
[ 2 February 2006 ] |
Flows decree – Numbers are being drawn, can more than one application form correspond to one number?
Decreto flussi – Durante il sorteggio è ammissibile che a un numero estratto corrispondano più domande presentate?
Question - Good evening, I am writing because a relative of mine sent a flows decree application form in order to employ a non-EU citizen and have this person come to Italy from abroad. Past Monday we were invited to the extraction of numbers. The extraction had the aim of assigning last quotas available (how can it be that local labour department immediately finished the 150 quotas when our application was sent at 8.31 in the morning?). During the extraction (one employer, one number), (...)
[ 13 January 2006 ] |
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Flow Decree 2008 – 150,000 available quota
Colf, caretakers and special nationalities have the priority. Foreign employers holding the residence permit not later than the 10th of December.
On the 3rd of December 2008 the law concerning the Flow Decree 2008 has been signed. It has been published on the Official Journal n.288 of the 10th of December 2008.
On the 5th of December an information leaflet has been advanced.
Division of the quota
150,000 entries divided between:
44,600 domestic workers or workers belonging to different productive sectors, coming from countries which have already signed or are supposed to sign specific cooperation agreements involving migration (...)
[ 19 December 2008 ] |
Points for permit to stay – Remark on Lega Nord’s proposal
by Marco Paggi, lawyer
The proposal advanced by Lega Nord concerning the introduction of a new regulation for the permesso di soggiorno (permit to stay) based on a points system should be an even more rewarding method, and demoting towards certain behaviours too, as someone thinks.
The first opinions on this topic, as also reported by Italian newspapers, and as often happens in the Italian political environment, have been a leap into the unknown, namely without being aware of what the points system is exactly (...)
[ 7 November 2008 ] |
PDS renewals: 65% of all applications submitted through the Post Office system is incorrect or incomplete
To that, waiting times for the electronic PDS and for the appointments at the “Questura” need to be added
In the past few days, there has been a meeting for all officers (patronati, associations, communes questura) at the Padua Prefettura, in order to update them about the situation of the PDS processing.
It is fair to say that most officers are not satisfied with the service that Poste Italiane is providing the customers and the Questuras as well.
The most discouraging fact is that 65% of all applications submitted so far through the postal system is incomplete or incorrect. Maybe because (...)
[ 7 February 2007 ] |
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The telematic procedure (in brief)
Computer procedures to forward the applications
The telematic procedure introduced by Decreto Flussi (Flows Decree) 2007 enables the applicant to forward via PC the applications concerning: the Flows Decree (for temporary or permanent work), conversion of the permit to stay, requests for family reunification, as well as requests for authorization for out of quota (“fuori quota”) entry.
The submission dates for the different types of work entry (with the checking of the quotas ) are fixed from time to time by the Flows Decree.
Since the (...)
[ 19 December 2008 ] |
Practical instructions – Procedure for family reunification
Updated on the 5th of November 2008, when the law D. Lgs N.160 of the 3rd October 2008 came into force
The issue of the clearance for family reunification (ricongiungimento familiare), necessary to obtain an entry visa, is required by the Immigration Office (Sportello Unico) of your place of residence. The required forms are to be downloaded from the website of the Ministry of Home Affairs – nullaostalavoro.interno.it, and completed with the relevant software.
See the pratica instructions:
Online procedure for the application forwarding
Family Reunification (Ricongiungimento familiare)
The (...)
[ 19 December 2008 ] |
Practical instructions - Family Reunification (il Ricongiungimento familiare)
Updated on the 5th of November 2008, when the law D. Lgs N.160 of the 3rd October 2008 came into force.
[ 19 December 2008 ] |
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European Pact on Immigration and Asylum
In the last half-century, the political and civilisational project that underlay the establishment and deepening of the European Union has achieved considerable progress. One of the most remarkable benefits of this enterprise is the creation of a wide area of free movement that now covers most of Europe. This development has provided an unprecedented increase in freedom for European citizens and nationals of third countries, who travel freely across this common territory. It is also a major (...)
[ 16 October 2008 ] |
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Project "Melting Pot Europa"
For the promotion of citizenship rights
If social instabillity is a condition that caracterises our lives, the subject on whom its effects are bigger is the immigrant.
The globalization of makets which caracterises our times doesn’t coincide with a real globalization.
An ever growing pression from migratory flows produced by civil wars and by the desire or the will to find better conditions of living, is not matched by politics of control of the migrant workforce, which respond with the militarisation of frontiers and the (...)
[ 15 June 2006 ] |
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