Equity

Almost ten years have passed since around 600 people lost their lives in two shipwrecks, on 3 and 11 October 2013 off the coast of Lampedusa.In the 11th attack, at least 60 minors lost their lives, so much so that it was defined as "the massacre of children".Since 2016, the Day of Remembrance and Reception has been established on 3 October, as a warning that such tragedies should not be repeated. Since 2014, almost over 26,000 people have disappeared in the same way in the Mediterranean Sea while trying to reach European shores, according to the data provided by the Missing Migrants project of the World Organization for Migration (IOM). via Missing Migrants Project The last massacre took place at dawn on February 26th:dozens of bodies were dragged by the waves of the stormy sea onto the beach of Steccato di Cutro, in Calabria, after the shipwreck of a fishing boat leaving from Izmir, Turkey, with over 200 people on board. Over 60 people have died of this latest shipwreck at t...

As has often happened in recent years, the Cutro shipwreck overnight turned the spotlight back on the massacres in the Mediterranean, but not on the authoritarian and repressive contexts of the countries of transit or departure.According to the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, and the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, the solution would be simple:“They shouldn't have left,” they said, without taking into consideration that the sea journey is only the latest in a long series of risks that migrants take, most of them before embarking.Minister Piantedosi's statements to the press confirm the tendency of Italian politics to re-propose a formula that has already demonstrated its limits, and which is based on the allocation of more funds to the countries of departure in exchange for a tougher border control policy .Demonstrating why this recipe doesn't work is one of the main starting countries, into which Italy has injected more funds:Tunisia. In recent weeks, the poli...

The recent ones resignation of the executive director of Frontex, Fabrice Leggeri, represent only the last piece of a mosaic of complaints, journalistic investigations And investigations on the work of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, accused of very serious violations of human rights. The step back of the 54-year-old French politician, head of the agency since 2015, would have been due to contents of a report confidential of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF).The investigation, reportedly from an internal Frontex source, “identifies precise responsibilities of the agency and Leggeri for some rejections that occurred in Greece” and indicates “a direct link between the meeting in which the disciplinary measures were to be decided and Leggeri's resignation”. The Director General of OLAF, Ville Itälä, commenting on the investigation with some MEPs, he would have defined Leggeri as "disloyal towards the EU” and responsible for a “poor staff management”. European sources prese...

Of Andrea Braschayko A few weeks ago I went to my grandmother, who lives alone – the rest of the family is in Ukraine – in a town near Caserta.Like many women from her country, she arrived in Italy representing, with pride and dignity, the poverty of the post-Soviet "wild nineties" which forced a generation of women into a life of caregiving and remittances.Although she never fully learned the language, my grandmother blended comfortably among Italian provincialism;here the nineties were, on the contrary, roaring.A stereotypical example was the husband from Caserta, who had gently aged on bread and Berlusconism. By force of circumstances, having got used to the television preferences of her now deceased partner, about twenty years later my grandmother and I found ourselves following the debates on the war in Ukraine on one of the most watched networks in that house, and for her the main source of information since February 24. I was obviously aware of what I was getting into.Apart from...

Irina is 35 years old and originally from Kropyvnytsky, a town in central Ukraine.Fifteen years ago, after completing her studies, she arrived in Italy, in Perugia, to join her mother, who had already been in our country since 2000.«My mother came out of need, to work, like many other Ukrainian women did.For twenty years she has been assisting the elderly and disabled, she is a carer, as you say - she states -.He worked in many families, then, when he could, he had us arrive:first my brother then me." A path completely similar to that of the family of her partner, Oleksy.«My mother also left our city, Starokostjantyniv, twenty years ago, first to work as a family assistant, then as a social-health worker.After a few years, when she stabilized, we arrived with a family reunion.But today our thoughts are more than ever in Ukraine."Irina and Olesky are struggling to sleep these days, their cell phones ring constantly, the horror of war arrives on WhatsApp in a constant flow of images, vid...