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Alcamo and Campobello di Mazara: The Exploitation Continues In the Sicilian Countryside
/in Trapani/Milo /by Borderline SiciliaA few weeks after our last visit to Campobello, we returned to see our contacts living in the informal camp at Erbe Bianche. The tent city has grown hugely: more than 400 people now live there, awaiting the imminent commencement of the olive harvest.
Campobello di Mazara: Precarious Agricultural Labour and Discrimination
/in Trapani/Milo /by Borderline SiciliaCampobello di Mazara is one of the most important stops in the cycle of seasonal labour in Sicily. Between September and December each year around 1,300 farm workers come to the area in order to work in the olive harvest, the majority of them originally from Subsaharian Africa. The situation is complicated. Although workers have […]
The Reception System in Agrigento, Trapani and Palermo: Between Disorganisation, Chaos and Abandonment
/in Agrigento/Lampedusa, Palermo, Trapani/Milo /by Borderline SiciliaThe deadly game does not stop. Europe has found a way out, and the only consequence will be the death of an entire society. The refrain we hear everyday is of an “invasion” and “help them in their own countries”. These phrases have contributed to the return of a regurgitated racism, spreading out across our […]
Trapani: Landings, Monitoring, Encounters
/in Trapani/Milo /by Borderline SiciliaThe air was tense in Trapani last week, due to the landings and the overall situation in the province. We were there to visit two reception centres in Marsala: Borgo della Pace and the former welfare home Giovanni XXIII. The Vos Prudence in port at Trapani The week began with the landing of 558 […]
Letter From a Mother
/in Trapani/Milo /by Borderline SiciliaThe barbarism which befalls the vast majority of migrants, people simply searching a dignified life, leaves deep and indelible wounds on their psyches, exacerbated by the violence which the Italian reception system so often inflicts upon them as well. Every day, people tell us about their tragic experiences in Libya, in the desert, on the […]
Miss, I’m Sorry, But I Have To Inform You That Your Son Has Been Killed
/in Messina, Trapani/Milo /by Borderline SiciliaThere have been too many, far too many phone calls over the last week. Too many messages from mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters looking for information about their loved ones, prisoners of our war on migrants. A battle which claims its victims every day: the last ones – if only they were truly the […]
A Future Deferred: Visit to an Extraordinary Reception Centre in the Province of Trapani
/in Trapani/Milo, Uncategorised /by Borderline SiciliaAs you enter the “Vulpitta” CAS* in the Province of Trapani, it feels a little disturbing knowing that this was once the “Vulpitta” Temporary Stay Centre (CPT*), one of the first detention centres for migrants. It was here that, 17 years ago in December, six Tunisian men died in a fire which tore through the […]
Hard to Accommodate: Trapani
/in Trapani/Milo, Uncategorised /by Borderline SiciliaThree landings in one week are too many even for Trapani, where there is no prospective for anyone who arrives, only unsurpassable walls. More than a thousand people in three landings put the Hotspot’s mechanisms to the test, a centre which usually works better than the others. More than 16,000 people have been transferred through […]
The Extraordinary Reception Centre for Women in Poggioreale: Vulnerabilities Left Unprotected
/in Trapani/Milo, Uncategorised /by Borderline Sicilia13 women, one with a 1-year-old child. 13 women, about whom no one speaks. 13 women, of whom 3 are pregnant. 13 adult women along with 3 young girls. We are talking about the women housed in the only Extraordinary Reception Centre (CAS*) for women in the Province of Trapani, situated in Poggioreale and managed […]
From the Sea to the Countryside, Passing Through Our Cities
/in Palermo, Trapani/Milo, Uncategorised /by Borderline SiciliaWhat do a young Ghanaian woman, a middle-aged Nigerian man and a Senegalese teenager have in common? Beyond the colour of their skin, without a shadow of a doubt, they share an experience of violence and exploitation, and the fact that they have been killed by our laws. This system has decided to sacrifice migrants […]