In
the past few days we have read about the announcementsby the mayor of Gorino
and the protests held by its citizens, and many of us have condemned
such acts. Without doubt, racism and ignorance have created some
monsters for the front pages, but in the end it has been too easy to
“pick off the easy targets”, and no one in the media has examined
the errors committed by the Prefecture and other institutional
agents, who were unaware of how to set up a reception project: there
was no plan prepared for any interaction between the new arrivals and
the indigenous community, but instead they were inserted into a
situation of emergency, causing simply the latest social conflict
which has served to demonstrate quite clearly the true face of
migration policies and to
continue to reap its harvest of victims.
