We are writing to share our concerns and recommendations regarding the use of EU funds to construct temporary housing for migrant workers in Italy. Evidence we have reviewed, including documentation from Italian authorities themselves, indicates that such funds at present are helping perpetuate, not alleviate, the ghettoization, vulnerability, and segregation of migrant workers in rural areas, further entrenching their precarious living conditions.
The director of Caritas in San Severo in southern Italy told an Italian daily that thousands of euros in funds raised by persons near the newly elected parliamentarian Aboubakar Soumahoro were intended to buy toys for a migrant settlement that in fact had very few children.
A 35-year-old from Gambia has died in a fire at a camp of migrant farmworkers in southern Italy. The man is the tenth person to die in a fire at a camp in the Foggia area since 2016.
A 35-year-old from Gambia has died in a fire at a camp of migrant farmworkers in southern Italy. The man is the tenth person to die in a fire at a camp in the Foggia area since 2016.
A migrant worker employed in the fields of southern Italy has claimed that he and others were exploited and beaten in a video testimony shared by a local trade union.