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Venezia - A scuola senza tetti. Basterebbe imparare dai bambini
Un altro appuntamento verso il primo marzo. Un giorno con tutti noi
Un giardinetto pubblico nel cuore del mercato, il primo sole primaverile dopo un inverno di neve e gelo, e tutto intorno il contesto di una piccola cittadina che vanta una delle più alte percentuali di cittadini di origine straniera nel Veneto: questi gli ingredienti di una bellissima mattina di condivisione e cultura.
Il prossimo appuntamento è per il primo marzo a Mestre, in Piazza Ferretto alle 17:00.
Dalle nove di Sabato 27 febbraio, Il Comitato Primo Marzo di Venezia ha portato in (...)
[ 27 February 2010 ] |
Primo Marzo a Venezia - Assemblea universitaria
Tratto da www.globalproject.info
Si è svolta nel pomeriggio di giovedì 25 febbraio l’Assemblea universitaria verso il Primo Marzo a Venezia. All’aula colonne di San Sebastiano, alla facoltà di Lettere di Ca’ Foscari, alcuni interventi hanno approfondito le diverse motivazioni che spingono il Comitato Primo Marzo all’organizzazione di queste iniziative.
Alessandra Sciurba, ricercatrice, redattrice di Melting Pot e autrice del libro Campi di Forza , ha accompagnato i partecipanti lungo un excursus sulla negazione storica di (...)
[ 26 February 2010 ] |
Venezia - Moni Ovadia presenta il libro sui respingimenti al porto
Sabato 23 gennaio, ore 11:00
Ateneo Veneto, Calle della Verona San marco, 1897 (Campo S. Fantin)
La rete di associazioni veneziane "Tuttiidirittiumanipertutti"
presenta il libro
Il porto dei destini sospesi
Intervengono:
Moni Ovadia, attore teatrale
Gianfranco Bettin, sociologo e scrittore
Luana Zanella, Assessora alle politiche giovanili e pace del Comune di Venezia
Luigi Gardenal, artista
per info: centropace@comune.venezia.it (...)
[ 21 January 2010 ] |
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CIE - Extension of Detention Period Rejected
The House has decided that art. 5 of the legislative decree providing for the extension of time of detention to six months be deleted
There has been a new CPT setback. During the debate on Bill 733 (the one containing among other things the abolition of the ban on reporting by doctors) the Senate had already eliminated the provision extending the period of detention of irregular migrants to one year and six months in detention centres.
But the Ministry of the Interior, unable retreat on the government of migration by imprisonment (supposedly pending deportation) had re-proposed a similar rule within the so-called (...)
[ 15 April 2009 ] |
Immigration quota decree (Decreto Flussi) and migrant landings - The Ministry of the Interior provides the numbers
Fulvio Vassallo Paleologo, University of Palermo
Contains:
Report of the Commissioner for Human Rights Hammarberg Council of Europe
Criticism of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
[ 19 March 2009 ] |
Patras – We Need Help
The direct testimony of the refugees in the Patras camp
Yasser ‘s voice seems to come from another planet: “Help us, we need someone fight for our rights”. Haji, the representative of the Afghan community in the Patras slum-camp, reports what happened during the rebellion.
Thousands of Afghan citizens, whose stories we have already reported, barricaded themselves inside the camp. Police doesn’t intervene, but keeps under surveillance the entire place. The refugees are afraid to walk outside the camp. They are terrorized by the policemen, but (...)
[ 17 March 2009 ] |
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Lampedusa - There are serious and imminent risk of widespread violations of the fundamental right of refugees and immigrants
An appeal to the institutions from many associations
Amnesty International Italia, Arci, Asgi, Casa dei diritti sociali-Focusa, Centro Astalli, Cir, Comunità di S.Egidio, Federazione delle Chiese Evangeliche in Italia, Medici Senza Frontiere, Movimento migranti e rifugiati di Caserta, Save The Children, Senzaconfine
The signatory associations and protection bodies express their very strong concern regarding some choices made by the Italian government in relation to the overall management of the arrival of foreign citizens in Lampedusa. (...)
[ 27 January 2009 ] |
Call for a mobilization against the law "Pacchetto Sicurezza"
17th and 19th January 2009
On January 19th in the Italian Parliament the voting procedure to approve the law "Pacchetto sicurezza" (DdL 733) will begin. This law will result in migrants facing greater segregation and increased racism. The new law will mean: - that migrants who go to hospital can be reported to the police if they do not have a residence permit
that migrants without a residence permit cannot legally recognize their children
that migrants must have the residence permit for two years before they (...)
[ 7 January 2009 ] |
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 ] |
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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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Health care and irregular foreigners: What are the prospects?
An analysis by the lawyer Dr. Guido Savio del Foro di Torino
With thanks to ASGI for the information
[ 3 April 2009 ] |
Security Package (Bill 733) approved by the Senate
Here are the main points contained in the approved text
The Permit to Stay Tax bill and the abolition of the ban on hospital staff reporting irregular migrants have been passed. The point relating to CPT detention time was stopped.
[ 9 February 2009 ] |
Security Package - Government defeated in the Senate over CPTs
No 18 month detentions. Votes against two other points.
Legal Decree 733, the so-called security package, suffered a setback in the process of approval, or rather it is still proceeding through Parliament, but some points, defined by Maroni as "qualifying" have been thrown out of class. The absence of some of the senators belonging to majority parties, and the bad mood of some members of the PDL party meant that the government has had to accept the Senate’s opinion relating to the extension of detention time to up to eighteen months. The Home (...)
[ 5 February 2009 ] |
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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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Security Package in the House - If approved it would not be possible for ’irregular’ migrants to recognize their children.
by Marco Paggi - Lawyer
The chamber of Deputies is now in the process of considering Bill 733. The bill has been before the Justice and the Constitutional Affairs committees since Tuesday March 11 prior to passing to the chamber.
The security package is almost entirely devoted to immigration, albeit under the definition of migration as only a security problem. The text considered by the Senate is worrying due to the consequences it may have.
If the version of the text already passed by the Senate was approved (...)
[ 10 March 2009 ] |
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 ] |
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Practical instructions – After the entry with a working visa
What to do once you have gotten the authorization
Requirements needed both from the employer and employee:
This procedure refers to workers authorized to entry on working reasons subsequent to the release of the authorization provided by the Flow Decree.
within 48 hours from the entry on the Italian territory, the owner of the accommodation where the worker is going to live has to forward to the authorities the host statement or, in case of loan for use and lease, the lease contract (Comunicazione di Cessione Fabbricato).
The form (...)
[ 11 March 2009 ] |
Flow Decree – What happens when the employer cannot hire anymore
Because of the long waiting times between the moment when the application is forwarded according to the procedures of the Flow Decree and the effective entry of the worker, the employer frequently, for different reasons, is no longer willing to hire the worker he/she had asked for through the authorization standing to the Flow Decree.
Cessation of business or death of the employer while the authorization is being released.
If the employer dies or the business stops operating before the (...)
[ 11 March 2009 ] |
INPS Social Allowance - The Amount for 2009
New amount: 5317,65 € annual
INPS (the National Social Welfare Institution) has fixed the amount for the social allowance 2009 at 409,05 €, equal to 5317,65 € annual.
The social allowance is a social assistance service provided by INPS to all persons over 65 years old at least and who do not reach an annual income of 5317,65 €. The allowance concerns the Italian citizens, Community and non-Community citizens holding a CE stay permit for long-term residents.
The amount of the social allowance is relevant under (...)
[ 24 February 2009 ] |
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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 markets which characterizes our times doesn’t constitute a true globalization.
An ever growing pressure from migratory flows produced by civil wars, and by the desire, or the will to find better living conditions, is not matched by the politics of control of the migrant workforce, which have responded with the militarisation of borders and the (...)
[ 15 June 2006 ] |
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