Posts tagged Italy
Editorial: Migrants' psychosocial health: cultural and religious resources through resilience and coping

The Research Topic, Migrants' psychosocial health: cultural and religious resources through resilience and coping, is published in Frontiers and addresses how resilience and coping strategies are expressed among the most vulnerable communities, and how they are bearing the burden and enduring the most dire consequences of recent crises, not the least the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak. People with migrant backgrounds, refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants, who were already experiencing multifaceted repressions and discrimination, now find themselves in an even more vulnerable situation ranging from immediate....

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MIGRATION GOVERNANCE IN ITALY: THE URGENCY OF SUBSTITUTING STOPGAP MEASURES WITH A STRUCTURED AND SYSTEMIC REFORM

RESPOND Policy Brief [2020/10]

Authors: Prof. Dr. Veronica Federico, Dr Paola Pannia - University of Florence

Since 2014, Italy is receiving the highest number of non-EU citizens looking for economic opportunities and for international protection in its recent history. In 2019 there were more than 6 million foreigner residents in the country. Despite this high surge in number, the backbone of the national migration legal framework dates back 1998, when Italy counted little more than one million foreigners. Since then, the Italian Consolidated Law on Immigration (Legislative Decree No. 286/1998), the pillar of the system…

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WHAT RESPONSES TO PROTECTION SEEKERS? THE ITALIAN WAY (BETWEEN FALLS AND ASCENDS)

RESPOND Policy Brief [2020/9]

Authors: Prof. Dr. Veronica Federico, Dr Paola Pannia - University of Florence

After decades of emigration, Italy has become the gateway to the European Union and a destination country itself. However, Italian government’s attempts to manage sizeable migration flows did not result in an efficient national system of migration governance. Conversely, mirroring a broader European trend, the Italian response has increasingly followed a security-based and regressive approach, culminated in 2018 with the Salvini Decree (No. 113/2018). The Decree introduced a number of restrictions, further narrowing down the legal entry channels in the country. Amongst those restrictions…

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