In Italy 's integration of immigrants is an ongoing process, unfortunately hampered by anti-immigration policies that fuel the fear of citizens against the other. The media and newspapers do their part by presenting images of immigrants often do not correspond to reality. How to promote integration in this climate of fear?
of operational team refugee center "Lussier E." SPRAR, Elmas
There is much talk of integration and intercultural interaction in relation to foreigners in Italy. One wonders how different cultures to live peacefully with other religions, different ethnic groups that often are a source of violent conflict, discrimination and violence. We quarrel, in deciding whether to ban the burqa if they build a mosque and where to build it, if not hang up or hang a crucifix, as if our democracy was undermined or enhanced by the presence or absence of these symbols. The question yes or burqa burqa no longer a problem that seems a problem of women's emancipation. In fact, while we can consider it done in Italy, after long years of struggle of the feminist movement is still far from realization in many countries outside Europe. Under the guise of religion, men have the power to relegate women to do what they did in most of our mothers and grandmothers, that is, play the hard work of a housewife, teacher, administrator, and always with their children following to work in the fields in the markets and so on. With us there was the Catholic Church to strengthen the image of woman as angel of the hearth, there is the Muslim religion to determine the role of women in the most violent, certainly, but the political issue is the same. For years it was thought the importance of intercultural since the early years of school, the need to teach children to accept diversity, which projects a school should arrange to break down cultural barriers and prejudices between children who come from different worlds. Then it became clear that to accept the other is a different problem to some of us adults not children. And one wonders if the problem of coexistence of diversity that is a false problem which they hide behind political interests over economic lavish benefits that derive from these conflicts? In Italy on fear of foreigners setting the election campaigns are won and alas. The many doubts have been reflected with the experience of the project area E. Lussier Sprar that since 2007 welcomes asylum seekers and refugees in apartments in the area. From this vantage point, from this multi-cultural microcosm, it was possible to observe how the peaceful coexistence of diversity is achieved in daily life among people who have not only lived on their skin terrible forms of discrimination, but these are due to escape their country. What is striking is entering the apartments, for example, the display of religious symbols, Christians, Muslims, Yazid without that this creates no problem. Each cook your own food and share them with others. Where Afghans, Pakistanis, Iranians, Nigerians, Ivorians, Eritreans Somalis, Iraqis are one community and its assets after having passed a first moment of suspicion, a solidarity that perhaps we Italians have forgotten, as we are taken by individual research of the statement. That makes you smile (all our concerns) of the much-feared religious conflicts, ethnic, political in the apartments have given way to more mundane conflicts over rounds of cleaning, tv due to excessively high noise or tone of voice too high. Trivial disputes between non-resident students who share the apartment! And we operators we were prepared to make difficult mediations of religious conflicts, ethnic, political (from the top of our ready to teach others to live free coexistence of diversity) we were far more commonplace to mediate conflicts in shifts of cleaning and volume of the tv! Of course there is always an adjustment period due to the different habits of life, fatigue research work, to the disappointment of unmet expectations. But all in small groups in which many languages, the different smells of the kitchen, the various prayers that rise and the silence of those who have a God to pray in an alternating mix of joy and sadness that after more is not that man's life.
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