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Migrant detention in Covid-19 times

July 20, 2020 - Flaminia Delle Cese

What is the point of holding foreign nationals in immigration detention centres at a time when the limitation of international mobility prevents returns? Does it make sense to deprive of their personal liberty individuals who have not committed a crime and who in 50% of cases will be released from detention centres as irregular migrants? What sense is there in providing for quarantine periods on ships for persons landed on the Italian coasts, when the thousands of people arriving by air or across land borders are no longer obliged to undergo this measure? With its dossier, the Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights aims to demonstrate the ineffectiveness, inutility and huge cost - in human and economic terms - of places of detention for foreigners.

Bergamo and the Seriana Valley, the solidarity of foreign communities in the Covid emergency

May 21, 2020 - Ilaria Romano

Three communities from three different corners of the globe, three different religious creeds, three different cultures, united by the health emergency that has affected the country where they have decided to live. Ilaria Romano tells us about the sympathetic response of foreign communities from the Seriana Valley - Bergamo.

Rome: the invisibles of Piazzale Spadolini

May 7, 2020 - Serena Chiodo

Piazzale Spadolini was an empty space, then it was turned into a parking lot in 2011, when the railway station was renovated. It is now a hub for those travelling on the underground or trains, who leave their cars parked there. The area was isolated even before the Covid-19 emergency, and it is practically invisible now: much like those living there, at least for institutions. Serena Chiodo and Valerio Muscella visited the people who are forced to take shelter around Tiburtina railway station and the volunteers who help them.

The agriculture emergency in Italy: three proposals to solve the crisis and protect everyone’s rights

April 23, 2020 - Sara Manisera and Janos Chiala

During the health crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, much was said about “essential workers”, meaning those people whose job cannot be halted without serious repercussions on society. This category includes farm labourers, the invisible people who, often times exploited, work in Italian farmlands to ensure an uninterrupted supply of fruit and vegetables. Sara Manisera and Janos Chiala, from the Taurianova ghetto, explain how this crisis could be solved protecting everyone’s rights.

Regularisation of migrants. One step forward, but much more could be done

May 18, 2020 - Andrea Oleandri

The impression that many gathered from the proposed measures to regularise foreign workers is that it they are targeting more “us” and our needs (fruit and vegetables that risk staying unpicked in the crops, the elderly and the sick who will need assistance when the people they live with go back to work), than “them” and their right to dignity. It is one step forward, that is for sure, but with how many missed opportunities? Andrea Oleandri analyses them.

Coronavirus in reception centres, between lack of space and fear of infection

June 5, 2020 - Romina Vinci

In Airuno, the spotlight was turned on roughly three weeks ago, when the guests in a reception centre held a peaceful protest. The straw that broke the camel’s back was the arrival of an ambulance that took one of them to the hospital and the following diagnosis: it was a case of Covid-19. Romina Vinci tells us how the pandemic is managed in dorms of 5, 6 or even 8 people.

Migrants’ detention will not stop with the pandemic

May 27, 2020 - Giacomo Zandonini

Detention of irregular migrants is still the main instrument used to track down and repatriate unwelcome people, even when - like during a pandemic - this is not allowed. Giacomo Zandonini tells us how the Coronavirus emergency in Europe is leaving migrants’ detention unchanged.

Libya, quarantine under the bombs

May 22, 2020 - Nancy Porsia

Relatively few coronavirus cases have been recorded in Libya, but the conflict between the two factions that keep fighting for control over the North African country does not seem to be scaling down: on the past 6th of April, the Al Khadra hospital – chosen by the Government of National Accord to treat Covid-19 patients – was bombed by Haftar’s troops. The country portrayed by Nancy Porsia in her second reportage is governed by militias and foreign players, and unity and efforts for collective health appear to be way less important than the conquest of power.

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Analyses

Migrant detention in Covid-19 times

Bergamo and the Seriana Valley, the solidarity of foreign communities in the Covid emergency

Rome: the invisibles of Piazzale Spadolini

The agriculture emergency in Italy: three proposals to solve the crisis and protect everyone’s rights

Regularisation of migrants. One step forward, but much more could be done

Coronavirus in reception centres, between lack of space and fear of infection

Migrants’ detention will not stop with the pandemic

Libya, quarantine under the bombs

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