After several road accidents involving migrant farmworkers, street lights in the plain of Gioia Tauro, southern Italy, are being repaired. The Italian interior ministry says it is working with local authorities on improving public transport in the area and providing migrants with items such as safety vests.
The enrollment of incoming first-year students in Italy for the 2021-2022 school year will close on January 25. Enrollment is also mandatory for foreign minors, regardless of the regularity of their parents' stay permit, according to regulations issued by the education ministry.
The farmhands' union Ubs in Calabria has denounced yet another road accident involving a migrant worker. The Union stressed that that the security of foreign workers is not safeguarded.
The coronavirus pandemic has brought challenges for people and countries all over the world. Some businesses however grew during the lockdowns – food delivery services is one example. Nigerian migrant James Osawe is one of Rome’s thousands of delivery riders. German TV channel ZDF accompanied him on a shift in Rome.
A group of migrants in the southern Italian city of Bari is being relocated after an abandoned building in which they had been living caught fire last week. The blaze raised concerns about the living conditions of the migrants and sparked tensions with local police.
UNHCR expressed satisfaction on the passage into law of the new migration decree in Italy. The decree modifies the Salvini decrees, and UNHCR called it a "positive step forward" for refugees in Italy.
There has been a reduction in news and headlines on migration in the Italian media in 2020, while on a lexical level the derogatory and legally incorrect term "illegal" has made a return. That's according to the 8th annual report on media and migration in Italy, "News in Transit", by the Carta Association of Rome.
The Tunisian Navy announced on Tuesday that it had intercepted 93 African migrants in the Mediterranean during an attempt to cross to Europe.
Italy's guarantor for the rights of detainees, Mauro Palma, on Monday visited the Center for Repatriation (CPR) in Gradisca d'Isonzo, and said the facility "shows the limits of all the CPRs: that of being an empty time in which one waits for a long time for a repatriation that may or may not happen."
Italy faces growing criticism following reports that it has returned migrants back across its border with Slovenia. Slovenia and the Balkans region at large have been facing accusations of violent pushbacks, which have been investigated by various human rights groups in recent years.
In recent years, tens of thousands of unaccompanied migrants have arrived in Italy, without their parents or family. These children and teenagers represent a particularly vulnerable category of immigrants. Their living arrangements and education are organised around a system that helps develop a personalised approach, including a legal guardian. Part of the local population also helps these youngsters integrate into Italian society. Our correspondents report from Palermo, on the southern Italian island of Sicily.
A Tunisian boy with substantial paralysis was moved to a children's hospital in Rome this week. The seven-year-old had landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa with his father in November.