From Tripoli to Ciminna: The Women in an Emergency Reception Centre in the Province of Palermo

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A Report from the Sportello Sans Papiers – ARCI Porco Rosso Two weeks ago we visited the residents of the Extraordinary Reception Center* in Ciminna. The centre opened a few months ago, located behind a cemetery on the outskirts of a small town in the province of Palermo. Years ago the building used to house […]

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Smugglers by force

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from Internazionale.it

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An Illustrious Intruder

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Three days’ ago, our editors received the latest anonymous report relating to the working methods of a certain reception centre. More than in the past we have asked ourselves how to utilise this report, and what importance to give a series of facts that seem to go beyond the dramas of a TV soap opera.

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Homeless and Rightsless

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In Italy, the malfunctioning of administrative procedures represents a continuous source of bureaucratic dragging, demeaning periods of waiting and vicious downwards circles. One of the greatest problems relates to the police stations’ request for official residence documents and/or hospitality documents in order to be able to process the issuing or renewal of permits to stay, […]

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Happy birthday little one

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Everyone who has had experience in the immigration “sector” – no matter what role that covers – will have had at least once in their life, said, heard and/or nodded to the phrases “in reality there is no emergency”, “…we’re talking about a structural problem” or even “the emergency serves to construct other discourses.” Foucaultians […]

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The story of Joy, a victim of trafficking and of Agata who accepted her into her home.

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Redattoresociale.it – In the Palermo Cathedral a vigil was held for the International day against the trafficking of human beings. Bishop Lorefice: “The concrete report of this woman who has welcomed a young Nigerian woman helps us understand that in the middle of the clamorous bad there is also the silent good.”

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New arrivals in Sicilian harbours, while deaths continue at sea.

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In the last few days, around 1500 people have been rescued in the Mediterranean. Two days ago, some of those people were taken to Palermo and Catania. Yesterday in Pozzallo the ship Open Arms also recovered three bodies: those of two babies and a twenty year old boy.

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Tunisian Homeless found dead in Palermo. Third decease in 3 months

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Redattoresociale.it – He was found yesterday under a porch, near the port of Palermo. The associations are outraged about a phenomenon that sees several migrants in difficulties, left out of the reception circuit. ‘They are lonely people, forced to live in conditions of complete social invisibility’.

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Not Everyone Has Something To Celebrate

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Even in the festive season we have the task of observing hypocritical statements, mere methods of saving face for our politicans, from Minniti to Gentiloni. At the same time, Italian politicies have been condemned numerous times in the space of a single months, first by the High Commission of the United Nations and then by […]

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Peoples’ Court To Be Held in Palermo. The Accusation: Crimes Against Migrants By the Italian Government and the EU

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Press release – We understand that the Minister of the Interior, Marco Minniti, has been invited to a celebration in Palermo organised by the newspaper La Repubblica, in order to discuss migration and reception. This all while a vast number of men, women and children are tortured and left to die in Libyan prisons, left to […]

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