I decided to write this article for three of reasons: the first lies in the earthquake that is going through institutional part of North Africa and the Middle East, the second in the attitude of our government towards the new flows of migrants and in third place in the persistent stereotypes that fill the minds of Italian as well as many Polesine about migration processes.
We have yet to understand the magnitude of change that is taking place in Tunisia and Egypt and that is affecting many other countries of the southern shores of the Mediterranean. The freedom-and oppressive regimes that have governed these countries in recent decades are overwhelmed by processes of democratization and modernization that testify a large and legitimate aspiration to self-determination. Every people has the right to self-determination in fact, but this has not been possible until now for those countries of North Africa who have seen the dominance of authoritarian regimes that have settled and autoriprodotti complicity in the West. Europe which on the altar of their own "security" has sacrificed basic human rights of those populations. To stop the wave of migrants produced by the unequal international division of labor and income distribution has made no scruples to subsidize and to sign agreements "to cooperate" to ensure that migrants were apprehended in all modes (from prison camps to patrol ready to strafe the boats loaded with people).
And here we come to the second point, Interior Minister Roberto Maroni spoke of "biblical exodus," and heralds the arrival of 80,000 North Africans, just to awaken the attention of his electorate still in shock 's failure of the municipal federalism. Minister mystifies reality, as most of the thousands of Tunisians who are heading to Europe these days trying to reunite with their families living in France. Instead of serving as a Minister of the Interior which is his due, that of allocate the necessary human and material resources to provide basic assistance to migrants, Maroni what it does? Throw in the Italian population panic, feel besieged by "a horde" (as the newspaper of the League title, Padania) of barbarians ready to invade us and rob us. He preferred to leave thousands of people sleeping in the open rather than open structures of the CIE, completed a few years ago and cost millions of euro, which could give hospitality to more than 800 people. Afterwards, the minister what he does? She starts to scream pointing the finger at the European Union, which he said would have abandoned. But the paucity of intellectual and human Minister is now afloat when the EU meets that the offer of aid, the Italian Government replied spades. Here is revealed the other tactics of the strategist of the League, make us feel abandoned by the European Union that union still too soft on immigrants.
The present situation reveals the bankruptcy of the Italian government strategy and wider Europe that is so determined to look at migration flows only in security-key (with FRONTEX, the "cordon sanitaire" has gradually developed along the west coast of Africa in the Strait of Sicily, between Malta and Lampedusa in the Strait of Otranto, in the Aegean Sea, and the EU eastern land borders, making increase the number of deaths at the border: NGOs estimate - from the data alone raccolri the press - that the number of victims of the "war on migrants' conducted in Europe over the last twenty years is around 15,000) and almost no nothing to try to understand the causes and act on them. Suffice it to say that in two or three decades the most of environmental refugees who will press on Europe's doorstep will be counted in tens of millions by the consequences of climate change and to find those responsible we'll just look in the mirror. If we are to seriously address the issue of migration can not help but put in the order of ideas to put an end to financial speculation (just think of the damage caused by financial speculation on food products which have millions of hungry people in the summer) and inequality and to proceed immediately with a new model of development.
Finally I wanted to raise the issue of xenophobia or the fear of difference, as we know the ancient Romans indicated all other nations under the generic term for barbarians. The barbarians were for the Romans who were not able to speak their language and then easily "babbling" in the eyes of the Romans. Today, unfortunately, a bit 'then as the ethnocentrism is the master and there is the curiosity to enter into a relationship and get to know different cultures. I am reminded of a phrase I heard a few days ago that went something like "With what happened in Egypt will see how many immigrants will arrive and take us off the job." This is a recurring thought in the minds of many Italians both right and left. E 'impressive to note how their memory is so short-lived. Only a few decades ago, tens of thousands of Venetians have migrated in search of fortune in Piedmont or in related work in the Fiat, and many Venetians at the beginning of the twentieth century have migrated to South America, Argentina or Brazil? Because now they want to deny others the right to migrate they enjoyed their great-grandparents, their grandparents or even their own parents?
E 'well aware that the ground we walk on is not inscribed with our name, is a common good of all humanity and every human being has the right to be able to migrate, as a reminder of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Article 13 which reads as follows:
1. Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
2. Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
(place link here http://unipd-centrodirittiumani.it/it/schede/Articolo-13-Terra-casa-comune/17 interesting commentary on this fundamental right given by prof. Antonio Papisca, UNESCO Chair on Human Rights, Democracy and Peace "at the Interdepartmental Centre on the Rights of Peoples of the University of Padova)
The Italian Constitution contains a reference to the migration processes, it is precisely of 'Art. 10 provides that "the alien who is denied his country in the effective exercise of democratic liberties guaranteed by the Italian Constitution has the right to asylum in the Republic as laid down by law."
E then we are so confident we take away the job? From the studies carried out by UNDP experts (I recommend all to download from this link http://www.onuitalia.it/notizie-ottobre-2009/306-lundp-ha-pubblicato-il-rapporto-sullo-sviuppo-umano -2009 the 2009 report of the UNDP, to read and circulate) that there are no specific adverse impacts on the economy or the labor market of a country of destination of migration flows, even if the benefits from them are the many varieties social innovations. What we want to bring the league and right-wing parties is a war of the poor to divert attention on the real problems facing our economy.
In conclusion I think a party that claims to be the left can not backtrack on these issues only for purely electoral purposes. We can not in any way commit the fatal mistake of thinking to conform to the majority, but instead we have a duty to open the minds of our fellow citizens on these issues and we must not miss the solidarity with those who come to us at the cost of heavy sacrifices begin an honest life in Italy.
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