IDOS Research and Study Centre, in collaboration and with the support of the IOM – International Organization for Migration, has issued the English version of the 2019 Statistical Dossier on Immigration, now available as a PDF at www.dossierimmigrazione.it. The video presentation of the 2019 Dossier can also be downloaded from the same website, both in English and Italian. This [...]
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The words are stones campaign is online
The international awareness-raising campaign Words are stones, promoted by Lunaria in collaboration with Antigone (Greece), SOS Racisme (Spain), Grenzelos (Austria), Adice (France) and Kisa (Cyprus), which will run until 29 February 2020, starts today with the online publication of the first video of a series of 5. Watch out for the words you use because they can [...]
Words are Stones. Hate Speech Analysis in Public Discourse in Six European Countries
The dossier Words are stones was presented today in Rome. Analysis of the hate speech in the public speech in six European countries edited by Lunaria, in collaboration with 5 European associations of Austria, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy and Spain.The dossier summarizes the contents of the six national reports edited within the Words are Stones project by Adice (F), [...]
The Fatal Policies of Fortress Europe: 36,570 Documented Refugee Deaths since 1993 Time for Change!
On World Refugee Day, 20th June, UNITED for Intercultural Action is releasing its yearly update of the List of Refugee Deaths. It is now - once again - more relevant than ever. In September 2015, the pictures of 3-year-old Alan Kurdi from Syria who drowned in the Aegean, washed up on a beach with his red shirt and blue shorts, were a shock to many. Nearly four years [...]
NEW NEIGHBOURS. A new project promoting intercultural media spaces
Migration policy is one of the hottest topics on the political agenda of the upcoming European elections on May 23-26, when up to 400 million EU citizens will select their representatives in the European Parliament for the next 5 years. In a climate of increasing populism and disinformation, the New Neighbours website, launched today, aims to provide factual information [...]
Being Black in the EU: II European Union Survey on Minorities and Discrimination
di Milena Massini Relying on the data collected in the survey EU-MIDIS II, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) published the report “Being black in the EU” last November. The report is meant to shed light on the various forms of discrimination and racism that are currently affecting people of African descent and immigrants from sub-Saharan countries. The s [...]
Racism in Italy in 2018
Institutional racism was a constant in 2018, it was sprinkled in every way and with the use of all the possible tools on the Web and, in a more tangible way, in real life through administrative deeds, directives and new rules such as those contained in Law 132/2018. We have written about this in two different reports during the year (available here in Italian: [...]
Cases of “ordinary” racism December 2018
Some documented cases 01-12-2018, Latina (LT) - Lazio Source: sostieni.cronachediordinariorazzismo.org Two brothers, 14 and 15, born in Italy from Congolese parents, were assaulted, first verbally with racist phrases because of their skin colour, then physically. A group of young Italians, between 13 and 15 years old, beat them brutally.The rapid response team [...]
Cases of “ordinary” racism November 2018
Some documented cases 01-11-2018, Crema (CR) - Lombardy Source: bresciasettegiorni.it A group of far-right militants, activists of 'Loyalty and action', of 'Veneto front of skinheads' and of 'Casapound Cremona', coming from various locations in northern Italy, have improvised, undisturbed, a parade at the Maggiore Cemetery. An actual patrolling of the streets in the [...]
Cases of “ordinary” racism October 2018
Some documented cases 03-10-2018, Genoa (GE) - Liguria Source: Il Mattino In the evening, four young people robbed and beat an Ivory Coast citizen, while insulting him with racist phrases ("Go back home working in the fields!"). According the police reconstruction of facts, four young men surrounded the victim, 31, and after having taken the little money he [...]
Cases of “ordinary” racism September 2018
Some documented cases 01-09-2018, Bagheria (PA) - Sicily Source: bagherianews.com Near the ice-cream bar Anni 20 in via Mattarella,a 30-year-old Nigerian man was the victim of a racist aggression carried out by a 25-year-old Italian with previous criminal records, who is still out on bail. A quarrel broke out between the two men for futile reasons and some [...]
Cases of “ordinary” racism August 2018
Some documented cases 02-08-2018, Naples (NA) - Campania Source: it.notizie.yahoo.com The 22 year-old Senegalese street vendor, Cissé Elhadji Diebel, was shot and injured in the Vasto neighbourhood near the Central Station. The young man was on the street with two friends around 10 pm, when two people riding a scooter shoot him with several gunshotswithout [...]
Racism in Italy. The chronicle that speaks for itself
Still violent attacks on the streets, in the days just passed, to the detriment of foreign citizens, presumably "guilty" of the sole fact of having a different skin color. It happened in Lercara Friddi (PA), where a young dancer of 23 years, son of Mauritians but born in Italy and adopted after birth, Davide Mangiapane, was beaten and offended with racist phrases ('dirty [...]
Cases of “ordinary” racism July 2018
Some documented cases 02-07-2018, Sassari (SS) - Sardinia Source: ilmessaggero.it «I'm first! You go back to your country». A Nigerian girl was beaten while standing in line at the ATM and was accused of not respecting the line. The boy grabs her card violently and breaks into two, then he took her phone and threw it on the ground, breaking it. T [...]
Cassola: Cape Verdean worker wounded by a shot
July 27th 2018 Another shot started from the balcony of a private home, this time in Cassola (Bassano del Grappa) and hit a 33-year-old Cape Verdean employee, an employee of an electrical installation company, while he was working on a scaffolding, about 7 meters of height. The man was hit in the back. The author of the shot said he wanted to hit a pigeon. Now he is [...]
If the injury of a Roma child is just a “mystery”
19 July 2018 The Carabinieri who investigate will shed light on the dynamics of what happened. What the parents report is that Cirasela, their 15-month-old daughter, was injured in the back by a shot fired by an air gun, while walking on the street last Tuesday. Now she is in critical conditions at the Bambino Gesù hospital in Rome. It would not be the [...]
Venice: aggression in front of the station
"Abusive! Negro! What are you doing? "Then a head, a kick and a fist to the ribs. The victim is a twenty year old Ghanaian who has offered to transport the luggage to two women in front of the Venice Station. The attackers are two "authorized" carriers of thirty-seven and forty-one years, apparently already known to the local police. The news is reported by Corriere del [...]
Cases of “ordinary” racism June 2018
Some documented cases 02-06-2018, San Calogero (VV) - Calabria Source: La Repubblica Sacko Soumayla, the twenty-nine-year-old Malian man union activist of USB, was killed by a shot from a long distance shotgun(60 meters) last night. The victim had got into the “Ex-Fornace”, an abandoned brick factory, together with two other compatriots, Madiheri Drame, 30, and M [...]
The return of the race
Racism preceded and followed the national election in Italy of 4 March under the banner of "return of the race". We report this in a new dossier edited by Lunaria, starting from the 169 cases of discrimination and racism that we documented between January 1 and March 31, 2018, trying to highlight the most worrying trends, the most serious racist violence , the virality of [...]
Cases of “ordinary” racism April 2018
Some documented cases 01-04-2018, Pieve di Soligo (VI) - Veneto Source: oggitreviso.it Two young Bengalis were attacked and beaten in the city centrearound 3 am. According to a first reconstruction of the facts, a car was located just behind them as they were returning home and started to honk the horn. The car driver got out of the vehicle and took one of t [...]
Cases of “ordinary” racism March 2018
Some documented cases 05-03-2018, Florence (FI) - Tuscany Source: sostieni.cronachediordinariorazzismo.org Roberto Pirrone is a 64-year-old man from Florence, with no criminal record and a regular firearms license for sporting use. Around 8.30 am he left his home in Viale Aleardi, after an umpteenth discussion with his wife, bringing a gun with him. Wandering thr [...]
Shots on immigrants: racist raid in Macerata
A racist raid took place around 11 am in the city centre. A woman and five African men were hit by gun shots in the upper part of their body. Two of them have undergone surgery, one is in intensive care , the one more has a guarded prognosis. The perpetrator of the raid is Luca Traini, 28 years old, he is a skinhead and he has the tattoo of the far right group 'Third P [...]
Cases of “ordinary” racism February 2018
Some documented cases 02-02-2018, Monselice (PD) - Veneto Source: blastingnews.com Around 10:30 pm, three Moroccan drunk citizens disturbed the quiet neighbourhood of Monselice. Suddenly one of the three threw a glass bottle against a passing car breaking through the rear window. A local family was on board, namely: father, mother and the 17-year-old son. Luckily [...]
Racist attacks and discrimination January 2018
Some of the documented cases 10-01-2018, Castelnuovo (TE) - Abruzzo Source: ilmessaggero.it An asylum seeker from Cameroon, Sadar Bahar, known as Elia, wasverbally attacked while waiting for the bus to go home, the reception centre where he lives. He was waiting at the bus stop when four Italian citizensapproached him, got out of their [...]
Chronicles of ordinary racism. The Fourth White Book on Racism in Italy is on-line
Ordinary, legitimized and even flaunted; such is racism of the 4.0 age. The rhetoric of fear, instrumental politics, forms of institutional racism, misleading information, discrimination and widespread racist violence find in the net a space of encounter and mutual contamination. Stigmatizing and aggressive discourses encourage discriminatory acts and behaviors in the real [...]
Jo Cox Committee: Hate has a pyramidal development, it’s necessary to fight stereotypes
Stereotypes and prejudices create discrimination and hate speech, which prepare the fertile ground for hate crimes. It is a chain reaction the one represented by the Italian Commission on intolerance, xenophobia, racism and hate phenomena – called Jo Cox in memory of the British deputy killed on 16 June 2016 - in the final report presented on July 20 in Rome. A report that c [...]
Die at 24years-old for bad health care and racism
"A 24-year-old boy died yesterday in Naples, killed by racism and bad healthcare”: this is what reported on Facebook by the members of Ex Opg, a former psychiatric hospital, now abandoned and squatted by a goup of people in the Materdei district of Naples. The boy - Ibrahim Manneh, 24 years old- from the Ivory Coast, lived in Italy since 2010. He died in the night between S [...]
Europe: even more introverted, even less sympathetic
Support, resposability, solidarity. Detention, closure, rejections. Regarding the topic of migration, in European centers words mismatch facts. It isn’t a news: unfortunately it’s a leit motiv which already ecoes from years in institutional buildings and public speeches. A discrepancy between declared intents and token actions which emerged also today, during Tallin’s informal [...]
Die alone on the sidewalk. For “respectability”?
Yesterday in Rome a man died. His name was Niang Maguette and he was 54 years old. He was originally from Senegal. For thirty years in Italy, he worked as a peddler. He died on the sidewalk at Beatrice Cenci street, at the entrance to the Jewish Ghetto. He lost his life for causes to be clarified, during a city police operation against abusive trade, conducted in the area [...]
Migration and Asylum, what future for Europe?
The article that we report has been published by Sbilanciamoci.info within the collection 'Gli speciali di Sbilanciamoci': a series of discussions about the anniversary of the Treaties of Rome. In particular, this article is part of the thematic section on Fortress Europe. Deconstructing the mantra of ''unsustainable humanitarian emergency", from which we should try to defend [...]
Rimini, another racist violence
On the 22nd of March, around 7 p.m., in a little street next to Trieste St. in Rimini, in front of the A&O supermarket, a 39-year-old Italian man violently attack a 25-year-old Nigerian asylum seeker, who often helps people to empty the truck in exchange of few coins. Before the Italian man insults with racist phrases (like "Negro shi..., go back to your home"), then he [...]
“Relocation”, a missed goal
This article has been published by Sbilanciamoci.info within the dossier 'The specials of Sbilanciamoci': a series of analysis on the anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. Specifically, this article is part of the thematic section on Fortress Europe. "Relocation", a missed goal It should represent "a firm commitment to solidarity between the Member States", but in numbers and [...]
