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There must be, somewhere, a secret manual on how not to behave in the face of incidents of discrimination, and everyone in Italian football must have read it.The episode of Francesco Acerbi and Juan Jesus is unfortunately just the umpteenth confirmation of a system which, despite numerous precedents, seems to react every time as if it were the first. Racism in football does not only concern Italy.The difference, however, lies in the response Monday 18 March was exemplary from this point of view.While the controversy surrounding the racist epithet allegedly addressed by the Inter defender to his Brazilian opponent had been going on since the previous evening, in the morning Acerbi's agent, Federico Pastorello, spoke at the TransferRoom Summit in Rome supporting that in reality there had been no racist insult, and that the story had been "badly reported".In the early afternoon, the FIGC he announced the exclusion of the player from the national team, currently involved in a co...

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...

Of Oiza Q.Obasuyi The narrative adopted by the main Italian information sources when talking about immigration, people of foreign origin and racism often tends to be divided into two typologies:the trivialization of systemic racism on the one hand, and the criminalization of people on the other.The latter occurs through buzzwords such as "emergency" and "security", which often emerge in mainstream newspapers, in particular when talking about landings or urban areas with a greater presence of foreign people.This way of telling the facts not only has a real impact on the audience, who in turn can adopt it hostile and discriminatory behavior towards anyone with a migratory background, but it is also a symptom of the lack of a plurality of voices of various origins within both the Italian media and editorial offices. Between criminalization and emergency Taking care of how a person's nationality or origin is inserted in the text does not mean polluting the truthf...

  The conflict of recent days in Ukraine, whose sovereignty is now hostage to Russian bombs, has forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee to seek shelter in surrounding countries.Faced with the ongoing humanitarian crisis at its borders, the European Union has said it is ready to provide assistance common answer, with a series of actions aimed primarily at ensuring the safety of the exiles. The first provides for an allocation in favor of neighboring European states:Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Romania, towards which the refugees are headed.Sums intended to cover humanitarian aid will also be given to Ukraine itself to deal with internally displaced people.Alongside economic contributions, the establishment of a European "solidarity platform" is being discussed, to coordinate operations in collaboration with community agencies, the European Asylum Agency and Frontex, which will deal with all aspects of the humanitarian crisis . The most significant element of this response is ce...

Of Laetitia Leunkeu The European football championships were, among other things, a celebration of symbols.Among these an image has spread which speaks more than the words one would like to force onto the skin of its subject:a black child immortalized while in a moment of joy he waves the tricolor to celebrate the hard-earned victory against the English together with the others.His body soon becomes a political symbol.On the profiles on which his image appears, there is talk of proof of integration, inclusion, belonging.“This is Italy!” they shout. The instrumental use of a child is paradoxical, as in the painting in which he is portrayed and in the way the image is told, he appears as an anomaly, an irregularity of an established order, a banner to claim a notorious normality.Paradoxical as well as explanatory of a rather disappointing reality. Yes, this is Italy.It is that tendency to "I don't see colors", said hastily to dismiss any discussion that tries t...