Chronicles of ordinary racism 2011 - Cronache di ordinario razzismo

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Table of contents Introduction SECTION 1. THE POLITICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT Annamaria Rivera Two years of racism in Italy. Main actors and secondary players, victims and rebels Enrico Pugliese Immigrant workers during the crisis and institutional racism Grazia Naletto Institutional racism in the welfare system Maria Silvia Olivieri Reception buckles under the weight of “emergency” Sergio Bontempelli The country of forced evictions (and detention centres). Local policies on Roma and Sinti communities in Italy Giuseppe Faso e Alan Pona Getting to know yourself. Language tests: turning a blind eye Filippo Miraglia The future of citizenship and participation SECTION 2. REGULATIONS AND CASE‐LAW Andrea Callaioli Emergency as the norm. Institutionalised racism in the legislation on immigration from 2008 onwards Ilaria Traina Discrimination and access to the welfare system: lower court rulings SECTION 3. MIGRANTS AND MEDIA Grazia Naletto Immigrants and the media: one step forward, two steps back Paola Andrisani Sanaa’s murder Grazia Naletto The Rosarno riots Grazia Naletto The creativity of the Municipality of Adro Grazia Naletto The death of Maricica Hahaianu Giuseppe Faso The murder of Petre Ciurar Grazia Naletto A cruel diary SECTION 4. CHRONICLES OF ORDINARY RACISM Lunaria Racism in official statistics Lunaria Chronicles of everyday racism: number crunching. Paola Andrisani A 360° view Paola Andrisani Facebook: racism on the web Paola Andrisani The death of Yussuf Errahali Lunaria The suicide of Nourredine Adnane Serena Chiodo Rome drives its Roma community out. An opportunity for acceptance wasted Paola Andrisani “Gypsyville” and the other new terms in the land of fear Lunaria “Forced overboard” in Montagnana Lunaria The murder of El Kaalouli Imad Paola Andrisani An inventory of intolerance The authors Bibliography 2
Introduction The global economic crisis is producing devastating effects on society; social and economic disparity between and within nations grows greater every day. More and more frequently, civil and human rights are predicated on a financial standing, the decline of the welfare system leaves wide swathes of the population without essential social services while politicians are unable to provide satisfactory responses. At such a time, many may consider racism to be an issue of secondary importance. There are, in fact, many reasons why we must not write off the tales of everyday racism as minor events or, at the most, as acts and forms of behaviour stemming from the imbalance that the crisis of the neo‐liberist system creates within nation states. Indeed, it is precisely this ongoing crisis that, by acting as an unequivocal reminder of the world’s interconnectedness, should lead us to finally acknowledge that it is impossible to fight inequality if we remain attached to ‘national’ ideas of rights and citizenship. However, the policies that target immigrants, non‐EU citizens and the Roma community are moving, sadly, in the opposite direction. In 2008 and 2009, institutional racism found its most explicit outlet in the so‐called ‘safety package’. In the two following years, it gained an ever firmer hold over the decision‐making process of local administrators, who combined creative decrees in the field of public order and safety with rulings aimed at limiting social rights for foreign citizens. These are dangerous decisions that could easily be used in the future to justify inequitable treatment among Italians themselves. The breaching of fundamental human rights in Identification and Deportation Centres, the treatment reserved for Tunisian immigrants in the prison‐vessels set up in order to “free” Lampedusa, the fact that the press and unaccredited associations are denied admission to Cie and Cara centres, should alert us to the dangerous regression that the guarantee of civil rights is falling pray to. The instances of exploitation in the work place experienced by many immigrants who work in our fields, in the construction industry and even in the family and domestic care sector (which has the appearance of a deceptively sheltered environment), reveal a vast portion of our country’s economy in which a significant percentage of employees have short term or no contracts. The ease with which a verbal disagreement between a native and a foreign citizen can spiral out of control tells of social system that is fractured, divided and selfishly wrapped up in personal interests. In these pages we deal with all this and other issues, in the knowledge that the inequalities experienced by migrants and Roma form part of a process of erosion of rights (or, should we say, of the cultural values from which they stem) that affects us all. Between 15 July and 31 August 2009 we studied 861 cases of racism reported by the media or on the internet; we offer a selection of them, inevitably incomplete, in the inventory at the end of this volume. It is a long chain of verbal and physical violence, damaged property and discrimination carried out by individuals, groups and political or institutional leaders. On the basis of this first work of collection and analysis, we have singled out some cases that appeared to particularly stand out for the way in 3
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SECTION 3 IMMIGRANTS AND THE MEDIA
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law. A boom in honour killings (16
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The Rosarno riots Grazia Naletto Ro
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document the living conditions that
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ensuring equal opportunities for al
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in the same settlement witnessed th
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of the national press, member of a
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discrimination. 315 In 41.1% of cas
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Instances of racist discrimination
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An 360° view Paola Andrisani This
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private organizations against forei
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were, proved inadequate in the vast
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Roma community, Jewish or Muslim in
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Facebook: racism on the web Paola A
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“gypsy”. Yet another example is
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national press did not grant these
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children die in the fire that consu
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“Gypsyville” and the other new
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Pisapia become mayor of Milan. The
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“Forced overboard” in Montagnan
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21 July 2009 Naples (NA), Campania
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30 July 2009 Mantua (MN), Lombardy
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Ali Shadadi (37) is a Congolese cit
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dei Sardi. “We were resting in ou
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concussion, while his three friends
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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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Niang Boubacar, 42, a Senegalese tr
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3 September 2010 Zelo Surrigone (MI
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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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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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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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