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Brescia: per evitare espulsione scappa e muore
Era stato scoperto, per due volte, nel giro di sei mesi, e non ne voleva sapere di rischiare nuovamente l’espulsione, o forse anche la galera. Così, Ivan Pyreu, 47 anni, un immigrato irregolare proveniente dall’Est europeo, alla vista dei carabinieri ha cercato di fuggire, scavalcando una finestra, ed è precipitato nel vuoto morendo. È questa la ricostruzione dei carabinieri della Compagnia di Brescia di quanto accaduto intorno alle 23 di ieri in città. La vittima della disgrazia viveva in (...)
[ 7 July 2008 ] |
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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 ] |
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 ] |
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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 ] |
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 ] |
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 ] |
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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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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 ] |
No justice no peace! Riots in French banlieues
An interview with Alessandro Dal Lago
Rivolta nelle banlieues francesi: no justice, no peace!
What’s happening in France has little to do with Islam and with immigrants, as some stated here in Italy. What’s happening in France leads us to a series of reflections about Europe, where the real problem is social discrimination. Discrimination, racism do strongly exist in Italy as well.
We talked about this topics with Alessandro Dal Lago (Professor in cultural sociology at the University of Genoa – Department of educational studies).
We focused on what’s happening in France and we (...)
[ 18 November 2005 ] |
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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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South Europe hesitant on Romania and Bulgaria workers.
From December18
Italy is hesitating whether to let in Romanian and Bulgarian workers from January or follow the UK and Ireland in curbing immigration from the EU’s two newest member states.
Speaking at a conference on migration on Wednesday (25 October), Italian prime minister Romano Prodi said "We will examine this issue closely, because the Romanians make up the biggest foreign community in Italy."
"I have supported an open door policy but this case is complicated as many European countries have (...)
[ 26 October 2006 ] |
Flows Decree 2006
Flows decree 2006 should be enforced very soon, this means that application forms are to be given in during that time. Whereas if you are a new-EU citizen you can start applying to flows decree from February 3rd on. What is “flows decree”? How can non-EU citizens hope to be regularly moving to Italy?
Italian Immigration Act (Bossi-Fini law enforced back in September 2002) provides for that non-EU citizens can regularly enter Italian territories only if they manage to find employment when (...)
[ 3 March 2006 ] |
Flows Decree – Answers to FAQ
Flows decree enactment is about to come. The government is in fact to soon enforce the decree that will allow non-EU workers to come and work in Italy. Employment may be seasonal, subordinated and also as house-helper.
We everyday receive many questions, we are asked how to fill forms in, which are mandatory requisites, how application forms are to be given in.
We are well aware how precious information is: we therefore chose to try to publish everything we know about next flows decree in (...)
[ 2 February 2006 ] |
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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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PDS renewals: 65% of all applications submitted through the Post Office system is incorrect or incomplete
To that, waiting times for the electronic PDS and for the appointments at the “Questura” need to be added
In the past few days, there has been a meeting for all officers (patronati, associations, communes questura) at the Padua Prefettura, in order to update them about the situation of the PDS processing.
It is fair to say that most officers are not satisfied with the service that Poste Italiane is providing the customers and the Questuras as well.
The most discouraging fact is that 65% of all applications submitted so far through the postal system is incomplete or incorrect. Maybe because (...)
[ 7 February 2007 ] |
Cassation - Neither arrest nor expulsion for the immigrants without a renewed residence permit
The Court of Cassation (sentence 31426) has established that the immigrants, who don’t obtain the renewal of their residence permit, after having asked for it, cannot be punished by arrest or by expulsion.
The Supreme Court has so rejected the appeal of the Palermo Public Prosecutor’s Office.
The Supreme Court has so rejected the appeal of the Palermo Public Prosecutor’s Office against the order of the monocratic court, who denied the validation of the arrest against Rachid Z. – a (...)
[ 12 October 2006 ] |
Social security - Benefits guaranteed only to those holding an indefinite permit to stay
Awaiting the decision of the Courts regarding this discriminatory law
Numerous are the email inquiries that we receive regarding social security benefits. On this subject, we draw attention to the communication issued recently by the National Social Security Institute (INPS), which reconfirms that disability allowance, like other social security payments, is only payable to those who have an indefinite permit to stay.
This is an issue that we have dealt with many times in the past, especially regarding finance law no. 388 published on 23rd December 2000, (...)
[ 9 June 2006 ] |
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Leaving and re-entering Italy while waiting for the renewal of the visa (Permesso di Soggiorno) – The old rules will become effective from the first of April.
The transitory rules established by the Ministerial Memorandum from the 12 December 2007 will expire the 31 of March 2008.
Once again, facilitations to leave and re-enter Italy for visa holders waiting for renewal (those who hold only the receipt testifying that the application for the renewal of the visa has been submitted), are un-understandably destined to expire.
The Ministerial Memorandum from the 12 December 2007 stating that visa holders waiting for renewal are allowed to cross (...)
[ 28 April 2008 ] |
Leaving and re-entering Italy while waiting for the renewal of the visa (Permesso di Soggiorno)
Practical instructions updated the 14th of December 2007
Temporarily, until the 31st of March, 2008, visa holders waiting for renewal are allowed to cross terrestrial, maritime, or aerial borders within the Schengen area.
The Poste Italiane receipt (given to a visa applicant upon submitting an application for visa renewal) will be sufficient in order to exit and re-access Italy.
This right had been granted by a directive of the Interior Ministry from the 5th of August 2006. There are further and more specific ministerial memorandums.
First (...)
[ 28 April 2008 ] |
A information guide for market mendors
Consequences from penal and administrative point
A information guide for market mendors.
"Risk a street vendors takes when working without a licence"
Index :
1°The consequences from all the administration point of view
1.1 What possible actions can be taken against the administrative sanctions
1.2 Practical advise to follow if administrative sanctions are incurred
2° Consequences from penal point of view sales of imitation goods, cd, dvd, bags ect.
2.1 Consequences from the penal point of view with respect to migrant citizens with a (...)
[ 5 October 2006 ] |
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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 makets which caracterises our times doesn’t coincide with a real globalization.
An ever growing pression from migratory flows produced by civil wars and by the desire or the will to find better conditions of living, is not matched by politics of control of the migrant workforce, which respond with the militarisation of frontiers and the (...)
[ 15 June 2006 ] |
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