A project called "Work at the Bar" in Italy's capital Rome, starting in late February, trains young migrants to work as baristas and waiters. The goal of the initiative is to give foreign minors and young adults the chance to achieve social and work independence.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte called, in his keynote speech in Strasbourg to the European Parliament, for a Europe for the people and by the people. He accused the bloc of having lost touch with what the people want and asked for more unity to address the many challenges the continent faces, including migration.
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini announced a new closure of a migrant center in Italy, this time in the province of Sondrio, where a hotel had been turned into a center for hosting foreigners.
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has expressed concern over the Italian law on immigration and security because contained within the decree is a concept which labels even children as a potential ‘social danger.’
Dunja Mijatovic, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, has called upon Italy to uphold the human rights of refugees in an open letter dated January 31. Addressed to Italy’s Prime Minister she declares she is "deeply concerned" about "some recent measures" taken in the country.
Migrants staying at the CARA reception center in Mineo, Sicily, Europe's largest hosting facility for asylum seekers, are being transferred to other locations because of plans to close the center ''by the end of the year'', Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has said.
At the inauguration of a new asylum seeker reception center in Rome, Italian President Sergio Mattarella said, "welcoming and integration are the answers to the reality of these stories of suffering, of conflicts, of difficulties in arriving and landing in Europe."
At the height of the migratory movement in 2015 and 2016, Cara di Mineo was Italy’s biggest reception center. Now it holds just over a thousand inhabitants. After it was reported that a Nigerian crime gang was operating from the camp, Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini announced it would be closed by the end of 2019. What effect might that have on Italy’s migration reception system?
A young Senegalese immigrant has become a hero in Padua, in the north-east of Italy, after jumping into a freezing cold river to save an elderly Italian man who was apparently trying to commit suicide.
The private rescue boat "Sea Watch 3" picked up 47 people on January 19 in Libyan waters. Since then, it has been trying to obtain entry to a safe port in Europe. Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini repeats that Italian ports remain closed. Meanwhile, the boat remains waiting at sea.
A new guide by the Italian Coalition for Freedom and Civil Rights (CILD) aims to help foreigners answer questions that have arisen since the recent passage into law of the Salvini security decree. The guide responds to inquiries such as how a foreign citizen can register in the civil registry and what possible repercussions a lack of registration could have on a migrant in terms of access to public services.
Controversy is swirling in Italy over the closure of the CARA refugee center in Castelnuovo di Porto, just north of Rome, as well as the eventual transfer of the nearly 500 migrants currently housed at the structure.