Tag: Rome ⁄ Open Migration

Covid pandemic jeopardizes burial for the Muslim community

April 30, 2020 - Daniela Sala

Under Italian law, a person may only be buried in the Municipality of residence or in the Municipality where he or she died. On top of that, Islam forbids its believers cremation and burial in a sealed casket: the body must be buried, with the face towards Mecca. But out of 8,000 municipalities, only some sixty have a cemetery area dedicated to Muslim worshippers. Daniela Sala tells us how the Muslim community in the Lombard provinces most affected by the virus is getting organized to bury their loved ones.

I would like to stay home. The emergency in the emergency of the homeless

April 16, 2020 - Daniela Sala

In Italy, around 50 thousand people live on the streets. Among them, an ever growing percentage of migrants who, deprived of assistance and left without the now dismantled SPRAR network, found themselves homeless. From Rome’s most well-known shelters, Daniela Sala describes the emergency in the emergency of those having to cope with minimal services and bureaucratic troubles.

The 10 best articles on refugees and migration 44/2018

November 20, 2018 - Open Migration

78 migrants on board the Nivin cargo ship face being handed over to the Libyan authorities in the port of Misratah. Dozens of vulnerable people have been sent onto the street following the evacuation of the Baobab camp in Rome. The Italian High Council of the Judiciary has ruled that certain sections on refugees and asylum seekers in the new Salvini bill are unconstitutional

The 10 best articles on refugees and migration 39/2018

October 16, 2018 - Open Migration

Hidden behind the neutral language of a municipal regulation lies the last discrimination towards foreign citizens. It happened in Lodi, where migrants’ children cannot access the school canteen in absence of proof - with documents from their country of origin - that their parents do not own any assets in their home country. Meanwhile, another hard blow to the Riace model: migrants under SPRAR projects could soon be moved somewhere else.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 26/2018

July 10, 2018 - Open Migration

In the same week the European Parliament voted against the criminalisation of solidarity, and the European Commission denounces repatriations to Libya as contrary to European values and international laws, there are no more rescue NGO ships left in the Central Mediterranean, and migrants’ attempted crossings from Libya are the riskiest since public recording started in 2016.

Where is my home? A journey through refugees housing occupations in Rome

December 13, 2017 - Eleonora Camilli

Selam Palace, Viale del Policlinico, and Via Collatina are places of historic housing occupations by refugees and asylum seekers in Rome, a European capital where immigrants are not the only ones affected by the housing crisis. In perpetual fear of eviction, these communities have a history and an identity, and are awaiting a better future. Eleonora Camilli and Federica Mameli were able to visit them and listen to the stories of their occupants.

The 10 Best Articles on Refugees and Migration 49/2017

December 12, 2017 - Open Migration

The hell of Libya and the one on Lesbos. The horrors of border deaths and deportations. These tragedies are unfolding right before our eyes, but we are choosing to ignore them. A reflection on the lessons we should learn, and a video to debunk all the myths and false stereotypes on refugees.