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 ] |
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 ] |
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 ] |
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 ] |
Reggio Emilia: 1st May of Irregular Workers
Over one thousand migrants in Reggio Emilia to request a “sanatoria immediately”
More than one thousand migrants participated at the demonstration of the 1st of May organized by the Commitee of Irregular Workers. The procession of demonstrators crossed the streets and squares of the town, shouting "Enough with the speculations on our backs, sanatoria immediately".
On the occasion of the International Worker’s day, the Commitee of Irregular Workers, started up the the last 25th of March, arranged a meeting at the railway station of Reggio Emilia with those invisibles and (...)
[ 2 May 2007 ] |
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 ] |
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 ] |
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 ] |
For what it worthed the De Mistura’s Commission?
A comment to the conclusive relationship of the commission that has estimated the Italian CPT
The De Mistura’s commission has finally rendered the conclusions of its surveying public on Temporary Permanence Centers(CPT) and identification centers and attendance centers for immigrants on the Italian ground.
After months of visits inside of all structures on the territory, of questionnaires introduced to the local institutions and of data collection consulting some associations, the verdict has been finally emitted.
In the first place, before of relate to the content of the (...)
[ 5 March 2007 ] |
CPT: the Relationship of the ministerial Commission
Rendered famous from the Ministry of the Interior the relationship of the Commission on the CPT, started from the Minister Giuliano Amato in order to verify the conditions of the Centers of Temporary Permanence.
It unloads the Relationship of the Commission on the CPT
[ 3 March 2007 ] |
Africa as Europe: better letting them die than setting a precedent
In this moment there are 400 men in the middle of the sea without water nor food. Maybe there are more, but we know for certain only these 400. They are off Mauritania since four days, according to what Cinzia Gubbini writes in the article we published in our website on february 7th.
We tried to get some information, to glance all the newspapers, today such as yesterday, hoping that someone talked, if not about some news, at least about the event.
But not a word has been said about it, in (...)
[ 8 February 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 ] |
Left in the Desert: Hundreds of Refugees Arrested and Deported from Morocco
From Indymedia
Over 250 Sub-Saharan Africans have been arrested by the Moroccan authorities in raids that took place in different quarters of Rabat on December 23rd, 2006. Among the arrested were women and children refugees and asylum seekers. Six buses, accompanied by the army, then carried them to Oujda on the Algerian borders. At about 11pm, the buses crossed the border at 3 different points and the migrants were left in the middle of nowhere [see below for details]. Blockades by the Special Police (...)
[ 2 January 2007 ] |
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