Racist Laws and Daily Discrimination. Scenes of Every Day Violence in Eastern Sicily.

The Italian government is implementing a policy of racism and border of closure: deals with Libya, distinctively discriminatory official circulars, and the recent decree which was approved yesterday by the Council of Ministers. The decree introduces new measures for “speeding up the procedure to grant asylum to refugees”, clearing the way for the “utilisation” of migrants for unpaid labour on public works, and increasing the number of complexes for identification and “permanent” repatriation, centres which from today will be classed as Repatriation Centres (CPR*) instead of the old Identification and Expulsion Centres (CIE*).

Extraordinary Reception Centers, the Case of Palermo. Borderline: “Some make a profit from the invisibility of the migrants.”

Source: MeridioNews

Alberto Biondo has visited some extraordinary reception centers in the region's capital for Borderline: “The asylum seekers are frustrated by the bureaucracy. The reception system has no beginning and no end and is purposefully conceived in a way that leaves people hanging.”

Photo: Alberto Biondo