“State
of emergency”, “exceptional” and “extraordinary” measures:
those words so frequently associated with illegal practices carried
out without any check and controls, but which seem to be the only
method used for years to run the so-called “welcoming”
system in Italy. The Extraordinary Reception Centres (CAS*) are but
one example of this, another being the First Reception Centres (CPA*)
which for years now have become part of the “ordinary” character
of the migrant reception system. For ever more people, the
possibility of having professional figures throughout the procedure
for getting documents, and during insertion into a host community,
has simply disappeared.
