Chronicles of ordinary racism 2011 - Cronache di ordinario razzismo

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Lastly, the simplistic (and misleading) laying of the blame for the “Journeys of Hope” on criminal organizations who deal with the trafficking of human beings has become commonplace, resulting in the identification of the “pilots” as the only guilty parties in the tragedies at sea. This process is anything but naïve, being perfectly functional towards legitimizing a prohibitionary trend that immigration policies in Italy and Europe have been following for decades. It is hardly surprising that the exchange of opinions on the street or at school shares in this “siege” syndrome. 309 “We cannot provide for them”, “I am not a racist but there’s simply too many of them”, “The government spends more money on them that on us”, “We must think first and foremost of ourselves”. 310 On our coasts we find “illegal individuals”, “who ‐ records show ‐ commit more crimes than Italians”. News which dominates the front pages and is at the centre of public statements, passes through the filter of these representation and is thus distorted. The people who continue to wash up on our shores vanish into thin air: photos, videos and headlines that speak of a an emergency of biblical proportions obliterate faces, stories, hopes and expectations. In the wake of tragedies involving immigrants, grief, regret and indignation advance inexorably and are felt, no doubt, by a large proportion of Italian citizens. And yet, more often than not, they go hand in hand with some inevitable caveats that somehow manage to make events less dramatic by putting them into perspective and making the victims invisible. The emotional turmoil surrounding the death of so many men, women and children does not seem to lessen the conviction that Italy is not prepared to deal with the “biblical exodus” described by our Interior Minister. Hence the conclusion that the right course is to put a stop to these landings and “send them back home”, whatever the expense in terms resources and even human lives. The warnings, the deliberate and disastrous lack of management with regard to the Lampedusa situation, the equally conscious and indefensible decision to bundle hundreds of migrants into tents or improvised structures in disgraceful conditions of sanitation and hygiene, are only the most recent cynical and twisted outcomes of an immigration policy based on the demonization foreigners, commonplace now for over twenty years. Thus the 4,8 million immigrants who regularly reside in our country and, up until now, have “cost us” very little, become a “burden” that can no longer be endured. Not enough of an effort is made to explain how expensive it is to try and fortify national borders, build and run the CIE, enforce deportation orders, patrol our coasts. 311 But most of all there are fewer and fewer people who are not prepared, at the drop of a hat, responsibilities of the Italian government) 14 February 2011, http://www.terrelibere.org/terrediconfine/fuga-dalla-tunisia-leresponsabilita-del-governo-italiano; A. Rivera, Un mare di guerra, (A sea of war) il manifesto, 7 April 2011; G. Marcon, La fortezza Europa contro i diritti umani, (Fortress Europe against human rights) “Il Manifesto”, 9 April 2011. 309 This part is a revision of what was observed in the article Il razzismo giorno per giorno (racism day by day) published on www.sbilanciamoci.info, 8 April 2011. 310 These are the comments Lunaria was able to collect in the course of a series of workshops on racism held in ten classes of Roman secondary school students between January and March 2011. 311 On this particular aspect, continually absent from public debate even when it concerns itself with Identification and Deportation Centres, Lunaria, in association with the Sbilanciamoci! campaign, carried out a prolonged study. Cf. G. Naletto, “Quanto ci costa essere cattivi”, (The cost of being wicked) in “Spaesati”, supplement to “Il Manifesto”, 23 November 2010; G. Naletto, “L’utopia razionale” (The rational utopia) in I. Peretti (edited by), Shengenland, ediesse, 2011 and the reports from Sbilanciamoci! about the finance bills of the years 2004-2010 available on www.sbilanciamoci.org 122
to waive the guarantees placed on fundamental human rights for both natives and foreigners, asylum seekers or “simply” immigrants. 123
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Chronicles of Ordinary Racism Secon
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Introduction The global economic cr
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vote in administrative elections to
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aforementioned article, and in two
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clandestine)”, loaded with negati
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platitude, which Beppe Grillo 17 al
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petrol from his employer. We are no
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at dawn, the workforce marketplace
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substandard schools which offered f
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account only those immigrants regul
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Institutional racism in the welfare
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esponding to discriminatory behavio
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For example, the Caritas Dossier es
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Reception buckles under the weight
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eception process and to allocate fu
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with no access to public transporta
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The plan pursues three main aims -
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extend do people realise that recep
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The country of forced evictions (an
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Corato explained his rate of evicti
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Lazio. 104 With three Protezione Ci
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The second innovation is contained
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special fund for initiatives to imp
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and on the eradication of the princ
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hapless native who feels like a str
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The assessment of oral production a
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(a) It is not reliable because crea
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(e) points out that there is no emp
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The future of citizenship and parti
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However, some of the events of the
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To begin with the familiar, with co
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you look at it, against) foreigners
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3. Law 94/2009 The following year a
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3 December 2009 Teramo (TE), Abruzz
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Among the housing requirements, the
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long standing in Villa d’Ogna”.
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The EveryOne group reports an assau
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8 March 2010 Ventimiglia (IM), Ligu
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countrymen. After two days, this ho
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The A Buon Diritto association publ
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As the flames start to spread the t
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Niang Boubacar, 42, a Senegalese tr
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3 September 2010 Zelo Surrigone (MI
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contracts have already been signed
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questioning, the young man confesse
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A young north African woman arrives
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the needy is a good deed, discrimin
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2011 1 January 2011 Mestre (VE), Ve
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22 January 2011 Naples (NA), Campan
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council Danilo Narduzzi, Italian wo
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two youths approach her, grab hold
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house immigrants in northern region
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with whistles, shouts and racist in
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23 April 2011 Rome (RM), Lazio The
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a minaret. ‘We’ve gone for a st
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Islamic centre, at a rally held by
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that’s left for the two Senegales
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20 June 2011 Casarano (LE), Puglia
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houses, belonging to simple people,
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A few days after the Constitutional
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shouting ‘nigger, bl‐‐dy nigg
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