Month: April 2020

River

Miguel Angel García’s Cap Anamur Odyssey

On 21 June, the German ship “Cap Anamur” sailed near Lampedusa, with a cargo of supplies for the hospital that the humanitarian organization that owns the vessel operates in Baghdad. He spotted a dinghy in the open sea with 37 people without water or food, the engine in a pan and a half-deflated air chamber.…
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Mixed Marriages a Primary Dimension of Interculture

As has already been pointed out several times in recent years by the Caritas Dossier, which is an important reference for those who deal with immigration, an important reference point for those who want to realize the state and the migratory dynamics in our country, immigration is a structural dimension of our society, both in…
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European Community Action to Combat Discrimination

In Italy, since 1998, there has been legislation recogniseing on racial, ethnic, national or religious grounds and providing for the possibility of civil action against such discrimination. The document presented here sets out the main lines of the two directives issued by the Council of Europe: Directive 2000/43/EC, which implements the principle of equal treatment…
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Bossi-Fini Law the Declaration of Unconstitutionality by the Consultant

The Constitutional Court, with two judgments filed on July 15, 2004, declared the “Bossi Fini” law unconstitutional in two elements that undermine its foundations. The first element, identified with the No. 222, consists in the fact that it does not provide that “the validation judgment must be carried out in a contradictory way, before the…
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Interviews With Workers

There are a total of 30 foreign workers interviewed, all employed. Of these, 5 found work through the counter, 1 through an interim employment agency (and subsequently permanently hired), 21 were hired after an internship and three showed up directly at the company. The range of nationalities is extremely wide (14 countries), but only four…
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Training/Internship Experiences

The first detail that is striking, reviewing the results of this second set of interviews with companies, is the clear preponderance, in all the territorial areas considered, of positive assessments of the training experiences hosted, which in many cases recorded by the interviewers (and probably in others with respect to which this is not noted)…
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Experience of Using Counters

Without prejudice to the considerations set out on the common characteristics that emerge from this group of interviews with companies, it is nevertheless possible to detect some differences between the results that concern respectively the Emilian and romagna focused areas. Firstly, although in all cases, for the purposes of finding the companies to be contacted,…
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Interviews With Enterprises

There are a total of 56 interviews with companies. The companies were first identified on the basis of information provided by Employment Centres, trade union confederations offices, training bodies. Since it has been found in several cases that the companies found in this way did not appear to have been the scene of work experiences…
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Interviews With Officials

As mentioned above, the talks aimed at having a more precise picture on the regional scene regarding the problem investigated concerned institutional entities operating in the provinces of Bologna, Forlì-Cesena, Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Ravenna, Reggio Emilia, Ferrara and an official of the regional administration. To these must be added the interviews with union officials in…
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The Main Results of the Surveys

The following pages refer to the results obtained in the two phases in which the interviewers’ work was structured. A first paragraph is based on recordings of interviews with provincial and regional officials during the first phase. The second and third paragraphs examine the interviews carried out in the second phase, respectively, with companies in…
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