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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 ] |
The CPT costs 6000 euros per day. The police is investigating on the contractors
Fixed costs and terms of contract are being verified
from “La Repubblica” (Bari), January 25th 2007
The Bari CPT costs as much as a four stars hotel. The fixed costs are around five thousands euros per day which, if you consider an average of fifty people per day, corresponds to about one hundred euros per person. That’s a lot. And that’s what the Bari police is focusing on. The vice-attorney general, Francesco Bretone, has been investigating for a few months already on the Misericordia, the contractor the Prefettura put in charge for 2006.
The local governmental offices are not (...)
[ 25 January 2007 ] |
Sheen unites with migrant farm workers
From Times on line
He is the oldest undergraduate at Galway university, but it will come as little surprise to his professors that in between lectures Martin Sheen has become embroiled in radical student politics.
The star of Apocalyse Now and The West Wing is sponsoring a campaign on behalf of “exploited” mushroom workers in Ireland. The mostly female workforce is said to be exposed to dangerous chemicals, can be paid as little as €2.50 an hour, and face harrassment or dismissal if they complain.
“As a (...)
[ 27 November 2006 ] |
Mexico faces challenges protecting refugees in mixed migratory flows
New Report Highlights the Plight of Migrant Construction Workers
From Alertnet
Assistant High Commissioner for Refugees Erika Feller has said Mexico faces a major challenge protecting refugees as the country becomes more important as a migration route to North America.
Feller, who flew out of Mexico City on Thursday, discussed refugee issues and challenges posed by mixed migration flows during a five-day visit. At an international conference here earlier this week, she praised Mexico’s long record of providing asylum to refugees while noting that in the 1980s, when (...)
[ 14 November 2006 ] |
Janitors’ Union, recently organized, strikes in Houston
The New York Times, November 3, 2006
Last year, more than 5,000 janitors in Houston decided to form a union, giving organized labor one of its biggest victories ever in the South.
But now the janitors are locked in a new struggle. They have gone on strike because five Houston cleaning companies have rejected their proposal for a salary increase to $8.50 an hour, up from the current average of $5.25 an hour.
The companies say the proposal for a 62 percent increase, along with health insurance, is unrealistic.
The janitors, who (...)
[ 6 November 2006 ] |
Russia - Needs More Migrants, But Will Not Have Them
From IPS News
Quite abruptly, potential migrants have been told they may not be as welcome in Russia as they had come to expect.
In his state-of-nation address in May this year, President Vladimir Putin said it was necessary to reverse the declining population by encouraging skilled Russian-speaking foreigners from ex-Soviet republics to seek employment in Russia.
"Our policy remains to attract our compatriots from abroad," he said. "We need to encourage skilled migration to our country, encourage (...)
[ 1 November 2006 ] |
Malta - Pregnant woman, man die after rescue of 19 migrants
From The times of Malta
A pregnant woman and a man died on their way to St Luke’s Hospital yesterday moments after being rescued from the sea when a boat packed with illegal immigrants capsized.
Another four are reported missing. Throughout the day, two Armed Forces of Malta rescue helicopters scoured the area eight nautical miles east off Delimara in the hope of recovering them.
The army’s search did, however, yield three badly decomposed corpses, probably those of illegal immigrants from another unfortunate (...)
[ 26 October 2006 ] |
Usa - Terror Suspect in US Caught in Legal No Man’s Land
Investigative Reporting, Camille T. Taiara
From NewAmericaMedia
Editor’s Note: Disappeared in America is a new, regular feature profiling immigrants who’ve been detained or deported and whose cases illustrate unjust or inhumane features of the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration and detention systems. The second report chronicles the federal government’s use of flimsy evidence to label Massoud Hosseini, originally from Iran, a terrorist. Now he faces execution at home – and indefinite detention in the United States. Camille T. Taiara is editor (...)
[ 11 October 2006 ] |
Wave of Local Laws against Undocumented Sweeps Country
From El Diario/La Prensa
In the wake of Congress’s failure to pass comprehensive immigration reform, local and state governments are building their own "silent fence" through local ordinances against undocumented immigrants, reports New York’s Spanish-language newspaper El Diario/La Prensa. Local laws, fines and lawsuits against businesses hiring the undocumented represent the latest way to attack the rights of undocumented immigrants, according to the report. Twenty-seven states currently deny undocumented (...)
[ 11 October 2006 ] |
US border fence signed into law
From Bbc News
US President George W Bush has signed a controversial bill into law that will pay for a 700-mile fence (1,125km) fence along the border with Mexico.
The barrier, equipped with hi-tech surveillance equipment, will be built in areas where many illegal immigrants cross over into the United States.
Mr Bush has also suggested a temporary guest worker programme to allow immigrants to work legally in the US.
But Republican congressmen have argued against the idea.
They said it would be an amnesty (...)
[ 5 October 2006 ] |
Sensenbrenner Portfolio — Does Congressman Profit From Undocumented Labor?
From New America Media
Editor’s Note: A look at Congressman James Sensenbrenner’s stock holdings shows investments in companies that benefit from the work of undocumented immigrants, as well as firms contracted to build new border security measures. Roberto Lovato is a New America Media writer based in New York.
When President Bush signed into law on Oct. 4 a bill authorizing the construction of a 700-mile wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, the man who stood to reap the greatest political profits did not join the (...)
[ 5 October 2006 ] |
European policy defines Swiss immigration laws
From WorkPermit
Supporters of a plan to further restrict immigration in Switzerland, to be voted on in a referendum next weekend, cannot be accused of xenophobia, an expert says. Historian Thomas Gees says the debate on the issue is marked by fundamental differences between the left and right in Switzerland and fails to take account of European integration.
Opponents often forget that any law on immigration is discriminatory by definition, says Gees who worked for a commission of eminent historians on the (...)
[ 27 September 2006 ] |
Australia plans immigrant tests
From Bbc
Australia is planning a radical strengthening of immigration laws that would require prospective citizens to take tough English language tests as well as a quiz on history and culture.
Critics have said the plans are patronising and insulting.
The government has responded by insisting that it is "common sense" to encourage new citizens to achieve a decent level of English to make sure they contribute to society.
Prime Minister John Howard said the compulsory tests would help to create a (...)
[ 23 September 2006 ] |
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