Equity

Of foreigners residing in Italy at least half they are women;in 2021, approximately 2.6 million women with foreign citizenship were registered, a number equal to 50.9% of the entire foreign population resident in our country.Since the 1970s, women have begun to arrive in Italy with an emancipatory migration project in mind.To date, however, the well-being and rights status of foreign women in our country are seriously compromised, as illustrated bylatest report of the Idos Study and Research Center. To understand women's rights in Italy today, an intersectional approach is necessary, that is, having to consider the multiplicity of aspects that are part of our identities and the ways in which these intertwine, creating disadvantages or privileges.Intersectionality is based on the assumption that discrimination against non-white women, LGBTQIA+ and disadvantaged class subjects is multiplying;it was the African American activists who forcefully stated that there are multiple hegemonic...

Eight years have passed since the image of little Alan Kurdi, found dead on the beach in Bodrum, Turkey, together with 12 other people fleeing the war in Syria, went around the world. We wondered on whether or not to publish the photo of the 3 year old child's body.Those who had done so said they were convinced that that image would represent the point of no return: “If these images don't change Europe, what will?”, had headlined several newspapers.To hold those who govern to their responsibilities.That photo, it was written at the time, was the iconic representation, the "consequence", of political choices. This year the tenth anniversary was remembered of the Lampedusa shipwreck.It was October 3, 2013, when at least 368 people died in front of the island of Lampedusa, mostly Eritreans, fleeing from Libya.Even then, the images of the coffins lined up, white and small, shocked public opinion.Then, eight days later, there was “the shipwreck of the chil...

“The right advances”.“The European People's Party wins by a landslide”.“The real dark wave is yet to arrive.”These are some of the newspaper headlines that tell the outcome of the European elections on Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 June.The results were expected:the right and the far right increased their consensus, but did not obtain an absolute majority in the European Parliament.The three main right-wing parties (the more moderate European People's Party, the Conservatives and Reformists, which includes the Brothers of Italy, and Identity and Democracy, which includes the League) have different positions on many issues but they all agree on a point:the need to clamp down on migration in Europe, pushing towards an increasingly restrictive policy towards people arriving on the territory of the Union.“We want to stop uncontrolled migration,” was the slogan printed in large letters on the election posters of the European People's Party. Alre...

  'I have my mother and three little brothers in Kabul who depend on this trip, failure was not an option.'Ahmad (not his real name) is 16 years old.It comes to Europe from Afghanistan and tries ten times to jump over the wall of the port of Patras in Greece.He is also bitten by the guards' dogs.But in the end he succeeds.And while he does it, he films himself with his cell phone. Feet, black sneakers, faded pants of the same color, a blue thread passing over one foot.The legs are leaning on a metal bar, there is an intense noise, it could be that of a plane or a ship.The mobile phone picks up, but it's still not clear where we are, an iron skeleton and the air flowing, for a moment it seems like we're in flight.The phone is lowered and it is finally clear what is happening in this video:the asphalt flows fast and the wheel of a truck turns at the same speed.The cell phone returns to the bars under the truck and the camera turns towards the person holding it:the head bent in a...

Deaths:399.Missing:487.It is the tragic toll of the shipwrecks that occurred in the first six months of 2024 on the central Mediterranean route, according to the data published by the International Organization for Migration (IOM).Yet, while hundreds of people continue to die at sea trying to reach our coasts, in Italy it is increasingly difficult to account for shipwrecks:journalists are kept away from the ports and the press has to face a series of obstacles in reporting these events, which now end up being surrounded by an impenetrable rubber wall. The problem is not new:for years, the difficulties faced by reporters in accessing the ports have been compounded by the impossibility of coming into contact with the survivors, which makes it practically impossible to independently reconstruct the truth of the facts.Added to this is the scarcity of official communications, and the continuous request for authorization to approach the dock.“Before, reporters could access ports to...