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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 ] |
Usa: Fearing a Knock at the Door - The Black Undocumented Life
From NewAmericaMedia
Michele sits up startled in her full-size bed. Her heart is thumping. Her mind races with fear as she peers at the glow of the digital clock in the dark. It’s near midnight. Who could be knocking at her door at this hour?
She crawls from her bed and tips slowly across the carpeted floor of her efficiency apartment, horrified at the prospect of who could be awaiting her. She holds her breath as she nears the door. Peering through the peek hole, she sighs with relief. It’s only a fireman.
The (...)
[ 26 October 2006 ] |
USA - Turning Immigrants Into Citizens, Marchers Into Voters
From NewAmericaMedia
EDITOR’S NOTE: Hostile signals from the GOP-controlled Congress are spurring immigrants to become voting U.S. citizens, and a national campaign is being launched to help them.
With one week’s notice, nearly 100 eligible immigrants gathered in a school administration building in Phoenix, Ariz., on a Sunday to begin the process of becoming U.S. citizens. Organized by the Arizona Coalition for Migrant Rights and the Center for Community Change, this was just the first of a series of (...)
[ 5 July 2006 ] |
A new detention centre on Christmas Island and the Pacific Solution 2
Damian Spruce [damian.spruce at studio.unibo.it]
Amid talk of a new "Pacific Solution", where the extraterritorial immigration detention centres created in response to the 2001 Tampa incident are now being reactivated, the Australian government has also nearly completed a massive new detention centre within Australian territory: the remote settlement of Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, which is in fact closer to Indonesia than the Australian mainland, is the site of a new closed immigration centre capable of housing 800 people, (...)
[ 5 July 2006 ] |
USA - "Hagel-Martinez:" Repackaging the Sensenbrenner Bill
by Justin Akers Chacon
In the wake of the biggest protests in U.S. History-for the human and political rights of immigrant workers-Congress has been jolted into a position of having to react directly to the actions of working people. The response has fractured the political parties amongst their traditional and sectional allegiances, but united those most committed to Corporate America to work out a compromise; one that can unite enough liberals and conservatives to pass an immigration bill they hope will head (...)
[ 24 May 2006 ] |
Planned massacres: how measures against clandestine migrations become death instruments
by Fulvio Vassallo Paleologo, Università di Palermo
The massacre that took place September 10th night in front of Sicilian shores near Gela, the drowning of dozens of migrant citizens coming from Horn of Africa again show the failure of the policies that try to contrast illegal immigrations. These citizens were all potential asylum seekers and they had to try to reach Europe through boat people. Actual laws violate human rights. There are thousands of migrants that die in the attempt of reaching Europe: they are the victims of the system (...)
[ 3 October 2005 ] |
Reclaiming another Europe!
The resolution on mass expulsions - voted at European Parliament – is a very important act. It does not only refer to what happens between Lampedusa and Lybia but it also refers to all other European Union countries. This resolution represents an “invitation” to abstaining from mass repatriations and expulsions of asylum seekers and irregular migrants. The resolution was enforced thanks to one single vote.
European Parliament’s directive stands in a European horizon that is complementary (...)
[ 19 April 2005 ] |
Global fortresses, denied rights
There are no precedents to what is happening nowadays in Italy and in Sicily: migrant citizens forcedly repatriated right after their disembarkment at Sicilian shores, these are real mass deportations. There are no precedents in Italy but there are somewhere else in the world: in places and areas where market and command strategies produce laws that clash with the laws of humanity and they therefore re-draw geography. In Australia, for instance, the government cancelled dozens of islands (...)
[ 21 October 2004 ] |
Europe - Limited asylum right
In the past days EU in Bruxelles discussed on the “The Council directive that introduces minimal EU rules on the recognition and withdrawal of refugee status”.
This a juridical passage that should be enforced before May 1st (the day of the enlargement of European Union) and it is to provide for some strict restrictions for the recognition of refugee status. The applicants must be coming from countries that are considered objectively risky. Asylum seekers may also be repatriated to a “safe” (...)
[ 7 April 2004 ] |
The right lo vote – The government warns municipalities against the changes in the council statutes
By Rosanna Marcato, Immigration services and citizenship rightd promotion - Venice
The Ministry of interior affairs, Central electoral services, sent out a memorandum which shows the ministry’s worries about right lo vote enlargement. The memorandum object is “Passive and active (note: it means the right to vote and to run for elections) electoral vote enlarged to non EU citizens”. The ministry finally understood that civil society, differently from politicians, has the need to move from slogans and words to facts. Civil society does not anymore talk about the right to (...)
[ 26 February 2004 ] |
Migration flows in Italy
By Caritas/Migrantes « Immigration statistical dossier »
2002 regularization, after the managing of 704.000 application forms, remains an everyday matter. The problem we today face is how to have new entries and how to have them regularly live here. Minister of interior data help focusing on such a matter. 2,500,000 migrant citizens regularly live in Italy. Romenian citizens are the most, Morocco and Albania come right after: each of the quoted countries have 250,000 of their citizens living and working here. Ukraine comes fourth (120,000). (...)
[ 18 February 2004 ] |
Asking for asylum! A journey through out assistance and lodging services
Rosanna Marcato - Immigration services (Venice)
December 12nd the Refugees services (Council of Venice) held a workshop open especially to social, health care, school operators and collegues who work in centres giving assistance to asylum seekers in the territory.
The workshop gave for granted that giving assistance is correct and just, it wanted to talk about rights and how to build and increase them, it wanted to share experiences and working methods. We try to sustain asylum seekers, but services offered in our centres need to be (...)
[ 18 December 2003 ] |
The hypocrisy of housing policies: the Treviso case
Rosanna Marcato, Immigration and Citizenship rights promotion services (Venice)
Treviso’s facts again show the extreme precariousness and crazyness which migrant citizens are forced to live in. It has never happened that that workers are left without a place where to live. In the rich and wealthy Treviso, but also in many other cities and territories, migrant workers have to find a place where to live without anyone helping them. they often have to live in dirty, abandoned places far from racists and unintereted people. There are in fact many who do not care about (...)
[ 26 November 2003 ] |
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