Article number 10 “The legal status of the foreigner is regulated by law in accordance with international rules and treaties. The foreigner, who is prevented from exercising the democratic freedoms guaranteed by the Italian Constitution in the own country, has the asylum right in the territory of the Republic, according to the conditions established by law.”
🔗The law regulates immigration, it wants to stimulate the regular entrance of people in Italy rather than illegal ways. The regular immigrant people can start the acquisition of citizenship configured by law and have realize some rights: familiar reunification, receive a correct health treatment, get an education. Illegal immigrant are expelled from the state. The law foresees the institution of “Identification and Expulsion Centers” (CIE): structures in which foreigners "subjected to expulsion and/or rejection measures with compulsory accompaniment at the border" have to stay when the measure can’t be immediately provided.
🔗The law foresees more restrictive measures about immigration and permissions. It increases penalties for human traffickers, allows the use of Navy ships to combat illegal trafficking and defines the jobs that foreigners started to do in Italy (domestic workers, assistants to the elderly).
🔗The content is really huge since it collects the laws and the decrees still effective for the immigration regulation in Italy. It is constantly changed in the respect of the dynamic subject. Here the index: Title I - General principles Title II - Provisions on entry, residence and removal from the territory of the State Title III- Work rules Title IV - Right to family unity and protection of minors Title V - Healthcare provisions, as well as education, housing, participation in public life and social integration Title VI - Final rules
🔗Milestone documents where dignity, equality and inalienable rights of all members of the human race are defined and ensured. In particular in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, articles number 13 and 14 say that “everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state; everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country; everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.”
🔗This law defines the kind of social services and how they have to work in order to guarantee the quality of life, equal opportunities, non-discrimination and rights. In the framework of this law, the main actors are the municipalities: they have to provide needed services and they constitute the first organization with which people from migratory contexts have to face as network of social and health services system. Each municipality can work individually or in combination form with other municipalities (called “consorzio”). Municipalities always have to define a so-called “Piano di Zona” at a local level. The main responsible from social, health and educational organizations have to discuss about: the strategic objectives and priorities for intervention as well as the tools and means for their realization; the organizational methods of the services, the financial, structural and professional resources, the quality requirements; how to ensure integration between the various services (health, educational, territorial ...).
🔗The National Health Service (SSN) is a system of structures and services that guarantees the access of all to health services in the framework of equality. The health services and social services in Italy are public and free. They are foreseen for all, in particular for people in difficulty because of health issues, social and familiar problems, coming from migratory contexts… Other decrees and laws integrated this main law, especially from an economical point of view. “The national health service is made up of the complex of functions, structures, services and activities intended for the promotion, maintenance and recovery of the physical and mental health of the entire population without distinction of individual or social conditions and in ways that ensure citizens' equality towards the service. The implementation of the national health service is the responsibility of the state, regions and local territorial bodies, ensuring the participation of citizens.”
🔗Italian school and educational system is based on inclusion. No special school is foreseen for children with disability or foreign students. Immigrant children (without documents) can enroll and attend mainstreams schools: enrollments pending regularization does not compromise the achievement of the final qualifications for the study courses of schools of all levels. The Italian school has to provide the necessary tools and assistance in order to allow equal rights of children with disabilities.
🔗CPIA are places of planning, consultation, activation and governance of education and training initiatives for the adult population.
🔗Network of local authorities which, by accessing the National Fund for Asylum Policies and Services (FNPSA), carry out “integrated” welcome projects in the area, in the context of local welfare and in close collaboration with other institutional interlocutors and with organizations of private social.
🔗It is the main police force for providing police duties. It is the first place where immigrants have to go in order to ask for permission to stay in Italy. “Foreign nationals must request a residency permit from the police department (Questura) of the province where they are staying within eight business days of their entrance.”
🔗As said in the first article of the UN Convention, the aim is “to promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by people with disabilities, and to promote respect for their inherent dignity.”
🔗Established in 1994, the federation is an umbrella organization to which some of the most representative associations join, at national and local level, in policies aimed at the social inclusion of people with different disabilities.
🔗It includes all the main national organizations, federations and associations representing people with disabilities and their families that constantly work for the protection of the rights of people with disabilities.
🔗The European Disability Forum is an umbrella organisation of persons with disabilities for the protection of the rights of persons with disability.
🔗The Office for the Pastoral Care of Migrants is the Office of the Archdiocese of Turin which deals with the reception and listening of immigrants. It also offers support for the preparation of documentation relating to residence, citizenship, family reunification ...
🔗The organisation provides humanitarian and social support to migrants and refugees in Italy.
🔗The Frantz Fanon Association (AFF), founded in Turin in 1997, brings together professionals with different backgrounds (psychologists, psychiatrists, cultural mediators, educators, cultural anthropologists) who share an interest in health, migration and culture and are committed to in the development of clinical interventions in the field of mental health of migrants.
🔗The Italian Red Cross Association is a voluntary organization. It wants to give health and social assistance both in times of peace and in times of conflict. The Italian Red Cross carries out many humanitarian activities in favor of the migrant population in response to the needs which, differently, manifest themselves on the national territory.
🔗The association offers free assistance in the health and social sectors, committing ourselves to protect the health and well-being of the weakest groups.
🔗The non-profit association MeDiaRe, has been operating since 2001 in the field of family mediation, conflict management, psychological support, psychotherapy, training on the prevention and management of conflicting relationships and on the refinement of relationship skills in different areas (family , health, work-organizational, criminal, social, scholastic).
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