Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Italy: Informal Settlements and Social
OUT OF SIGHT Asylum seekers and refugees in Italy: informal settlements and social marginalization Nobel Peace Price 1999 Morire di parto Quando partorire diventa un'emergenza 1 Introduzione CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 A RECEPTION SYSTEM THAT EXCLUDES 3 INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS 8 INTRODUCTION Asylum seekers in open-air sites 8 © Sara Creta, Gorizia Refugees’ permanent settlements 9 Ponte Mammolo, Baobab and Casa Bianca: eviction as the only solution 10 édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Italy and are completely left to fend for THE INHABITANTS OF THE INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS 11 decided to work with forced themselves, due to the limitations of a Mmigrants in Italy, as well as in reception system which is plagued by a Asylum seekers: reception denied 11 other European countries, at the end chronic lack of shelters and emergency of the 90s, when we realized that the management processes. Refugees' marginality 12 same people we were treating and assisting thousands of miles away were Inside the informal settlements BARRIERS TO ACCESS TO THE NATIONAL HEALTH also in Europe, often living in unstable living conditions are unacceptable. SERVICE 14 and deprived conditions. Since 1999, These settlements include occupied MSF has provided medical assistance buildings, shacks and tent camps, to thousands of migrants who have in open-air sites, cities and the countryside, across the whole Italy. MOST CRITICAL INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS arrived on the Italian coasts and who © Giuseppe De Mola, Crotone train station TURIN 16 live in Italy, with the aim of providing In half the sites there is no water TRIESTE AND GORIZIA 17 access to treatment to vulnerable or electricity, even when there PADUA 19 populations as stated by Italian law.
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