After the Latest Eviction: An Update on the Camp at Pian del Lago

In mid-March the police yet again evicted the camp at Pian del Lago (Caltanissetta). All this achieved was the temporary removal of some of those who had found a precarious sanctuary under the motorway overpass. After the police operation had been carried out at dawn, some of the migrants were taken in by the reception centre at Caltanissetta, while many others – not having anywhere else to go – had no option but to reconstruct the camp-site the very same night.

Caltanissetta: The commitment of the Counter for Immigrants, the market for residency and the administrative procedures for the renewal of the residence permit.

Established 10 years ago and carried on by the commitment of 4 volunteers, the Counter for Immigrants of Caltanissetta activated the service for enrolment into the civil registry for people without a fixed home of the municipality of Caltanissetta in 2013, with the intention to hinder and combat the market for false residencies which had established in town – especially by some citizens who speculated on the necessity of foreigners to register for the renewal of the residence permit. Citizens of Caltanissetta who probably are part of those who are against the welcoming of migrants, who applaud the xenophobic comments of local and national politicians and who are always ready to move between institutional voids hat open spaces to illegality and to the exploitation of the most vulnerable.