migrants in italy

• Italy

An app has been launched in Italy's southeastern city of Foggia for agricultural workers in rural areas nearby to reserve a place on a free bus. It will also help to counter labor exploitation.

• Italy

Eleven foreign citizens filed an appeal against the provisional ranking recently approved by the Municipality of Genoa for access to public housing, claiming it is discriminatory.

• Italy

Civil society associations in the Agro Pontino area of Lazio, central Italy, have released a 'Manifesto for Inclusion,' calling for a better treatment of migrants in the region.

• Italy

Many migrants do not have access to state support and health care in Italy because they cannot register their residency, according to Action Aid. The NGO is demanding local authorities end the practices that exclude many migrants from city registries.

• Italy

Baobab Experience said that authorities cleared its makeshift facilities at Rome's Tiburtina station, for the '41st time in six years'. The organizations provides aid to homeless migrants in the area.

• Italy

A 25-year-old Nigerian man was sentenced to 19 years in prison by an Italian court for killing another Nigerian after a fight in the informal camp of Borgo Mezzanine, in the southern region of Puglia, in October 2020.

• Libya
• Italy

The Ocean Viking arrived in Sicily on Friday morning to disembark over 500 migrants it has on board. The crew and migrants had been waiting for a week to be assigned a safe port. Food and water were about to run out when they were assigned a port on Thursday evening.

• Italy

The Kick Off Day project gives young migrants in Italy the possibility of playing in front of professionals who could help them start a career in football. This weekend, the first tryout is being held in Rome.

• Nigeria
• Italy

In Italy, thousands of Nigerian women are being forced into prostitution. The Nigerian mafia is suspected of being behind it. Insiders warn of the dangers of this 'new mafia' – with connections to Italian organized crime gangs.

• Italy

Foreign-born taxpayers in Italy have paid four billion euros in IRPEF personal income tax, according to the Venice-based Leone Moressa Foundation think tank.

• Italy

The Italian "Instruction Manual for Integration" has been updated. It contains answers 250 questions frequently asked by migrants about things such as stay permits and work in Italy. The goal: To provide support on the path to integration and inclusion.

• Italy

A fundraiser has been launched to complete the construction of a cemetery for migrants in Tarsia, in the southern region of Calabria. The appeal was launched to Italian and European institutions and to Pope Francis, to complete a "great project of civility."