ASTALLI 2019 REPORT: "The choice of inclusion”.
"Every dead person at sea, either through torture or violence, is an offense to the entire human race": this is how the president of the Italian bishops, Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, submitted the Annual Report of the Astalli Center, on 4 April, in Rome, at the Argentina Theatre. The Astalli report primarily manifests an increase in precariousness. The abolition of humanitarian protection (which was granted in many cases precisely as a result of the occurrence of health or social vulnerability), the complication of procedures for obtaining a residence which is a basic right and more generally, the multiplication of bureaucratic obstacles at all levels result in excluding a growing number of migrants from receiving local services, the president of the Centre, Fr. Camillo Ripamonti stated. The demand for basic services (canteens, showers, food parcels, clothing) is strong in all areas: about 4,000 are making use of the canteen in Rome, more than 900 new migrants are going to the day center in Palermo.
An important turning point in 2018, according to the report, was the security decree which was then legalized. This is a measure that, "slows down the process of integration and risks creating more irregularity and insecurity", says Fr. Ripamonti.
This is the reason the service which supports clients to build their autonomy has been strengthened. «The projects carried out by Centro Astalli during 2018 were largely focused on strengthening services and activities aimed at social inclusion, with particular attention being given to forced migrants who are in a particularly vulnerable condition: minors who are not accompanied, single-parent families, people with serious injuries ».
The report also presents a series of good local practices in Palermo, Catania, Trento, Vicenza, Padua and Rome, where the study on Constitution and Citizenship of the Italian school culminated with the visit of the students to the Constitutional Court.
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