We Are Incapable of Welcoming

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Not even at Christmas! Even now we are not capable of welcoming those in difficulty, having lost the fundamental values of civil life, of respect and of care for others. Over the Christmas period, which is synonymous with the moment in which we are able to “lay a place at the table”, we are continuing […]

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Immigrants, hotspot opens in Trapani

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Giornale di Sicilia – The second Italian “hotspot” opens in Trapani and is a centre for identification and first assistance to immigrants (the first one is on Lampedusa). This has been communicated by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi who indicated, “the government keeps its commitments”. The hotspot of Trapani will be situated in a compound in […]

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Visit to a community for unaccompanied minors in Mazara del Vallo

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On August 24, the Italian ship Vega carried 548 people who had been rescued at sea to Palermo. The majority of those aboard were women and children. Amongst them were many unaccompanied minors; 130 on arrival. Yet after the identification procedure had been carried out, that number somehow had gone down to 45. On August […]

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So much hypocrisy and confusion, only one certainty: death – Trapani

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Our trip continues to Trapani, where confusion and hypocrisy are not less than elsewhere. The city’s prefect repeats that the optimal system would be that of having small centres with few presences, although after the closure of the Cara* in Salinagrande – which took place more than two months ago – he determined to let […]

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We are stealing the hope – No welcoming in the area of Trapani.

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La strada per arrivare alResidence Marino. “I find myself closed in this place, waiting for a document to get me a job that will give me the opportunity to send money home; I find myself thinking entire days about my family that I have disappointed and have not seen for more than a year; why […]

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Exploitation and neglect in the Trapani region

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If you want a good idea of how the government manages immigration, just take a trip to the province of Trapani. As we have often said and reported, Trapani is the experimental laboratory in which the government tests out firsthand its policies towards migrants (since the Serraino Vulpitta). As well as the Milo CIE and […]

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Reception conditions in Trapani? From one gym to another.

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They have been in Italy for over a month and all that they have seen are the four walls of the gyms where they have been held. This is the cruel fate of the 44 migrants who have been since 28 August moved from one gym to another in the city of Trapani. Transferred each […]

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The Milo CIE (Immigration Detention Centre): the horror continues

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On 19 February some members of the associations borderline-europe and Borderline Sicilia visited the Immigrant Detention Centre (CIE) in Milo, a short distance from the city of Trapani.The situation which we met was deeply unsettling. This is largely as a result of the psychological and physical conditions into which streams of migrants are “typically” finding […]

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Trapani 2013: the racism bus

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Com.Unità Proposal from local councillor: Trapani buses for black immigrants from the Cara (Hosting Centre for Asylum Seekers) only. But what do the immigrants think? Frank is from the Ivory Coast, he has been in Italy for seven months and when I ask him what he thinks of the councillor’s proposal to have a bus […]

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Doctors for Human Rights (MEDU): the situation inside the Milo CIE (Immigration DetentionCentre) is explosive

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(AGI) – Trapani, 6th Nov. – “There is an explosive situation in Milo which up until now has not been seen in other CIEs (Immigration Detention Centres). In the three hours which we remained inside the structure there were 10 escape attempts. Tensions and unrest are prevalent, the police are having to work in anti-riot […]

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