immigration
Anderlecht, Molenbeek, Schaarbeek: spot the crime in Brussels
Petty crime and unemployment rates (17.6%) are high in inner city Brussels, which registers a low violent crime rate in Europe. Nevertheless, police arrested 12 Belgian Albanians linked to a crime gang on 15 February*, whilst certain districts remain dangerous. Is this down to the crisis?
immigration, economical crisis, balkans, sex, albania, prostitution, candidate countries
Polish migrants post-crisis in Ireland: is there no place like home?
EU enlargement in 2004 meant that the Poles made the most indelible imprint on Irish society - and surprise, they're happy in their new home, despite the fact that both countries have experienced polar fortunes in the recent recession
immigration, labour, economical crisis, poland, eurozone, ireland, economy
From Calais to Rosarno: Europe's 'immigrant jungles'
Patras, Athens, Bari, Seville ... a tour of Europe's recent troubled hotspots ends in southern Italy, where 7.2% of the population are illegal immigrants - the EU average is 6.2%
Italy fails in integrating migrants
The clashes between african harvest workers and locals in the southern Italian city of Rosarno have unleashed a debate on the treatment of immigrants in the country. Italy has done far too little to integrate foreign migrants, commentators argue. The French, Italian and Greek press react
immigration, violence, italy, illegal immigrants, riots, society
EU citizenship: when Bulgarian in Italy, marry an Italian
In a country where lemons are grown, it’s also immigrants that are put under the squeeze. In order to get Italian citizenship you have to contend with old-fashioned bureaucracy and having to go through the same processes over and over again, which adds to the associated difficulties and costs. Ljubomir’s family have decided to take the long way round it
Ho, ho ho. Merry crisis-mas
Shopping trolleys creak on empty and whole transport networks are paralysed, providing an eerie backdrop to Europe’s banker offspring, who this christmas are hoping for a thaw in their sector and financial salvation for the end of 2009. Meanwhile, Italians in the north from the far right Lega Nord party are bestowing illegal immigrants with a very special ‘White Christmas’ gift...a time for reflection and values?
Magyd Cherfi: 'identity and national is a collusion that I don’t get'
Singing about these issues in concert is something of a déjà vu that the French singer and militant can do without, he says. Interview
immigration, integration, multiculturalism, identity, magyd cherfi, illegal immigrants, culture
European bloggers describe their Berlin walls
Monday is 9 November, the day when the Berlin wall was brought down. To reflect on this iconic modern historical event for the eurogeneration, citizen journalists from five cafebabel.com local teams - Sofia, Budapest, Turin, Strasbourg and Istanbul - simultaneously blogged one day about the walls they see in their cities
immigration, integration, germany, construction, communism, event, budapest
Zanko: the 'White Arab' Italian rapper who would perform for the Lega Nord
In English slang, the word 'Zanko' is someone who is a social and cultural pioneer. Like this 28-year-old Syrian Italian, who gigs in unique political hotspots such as Zingonia and Lampedusa, has 'fought' for hip hop and would happily show the far-right Italian party what he's made of
immigration, integration, racism, rap, hip hop, italy, syrian arab republic
Afghan asylum seekers: refugees everywhere, human beings nowhere
They cross Iran, Turkey, the sea, and then Greece and Italy with the hope of finally reaching an EU member state. But because of the terms of the Dublin Convention II, they find themselves stuck in Italy, hostages of the right to asylum. Report
immigration, afghanistan, human rights, refugee, italy, european union, politics
Finding Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Russian Facebook
Since early September, the German opposition candidate has had a profile on the Russian e-community network Odnoklassniki.ru, which translates to ‘classmates.ru’. The social democrats are looking for the Russian vote in Germany, which mainly voted for the incumbent CDU party in the 2005 elections
immigration, germany, german chancellor, community, bundestagswahlen 2009, russian federation, frank-walter steinmeier
Italian far-right on Facebook: 'kill them all in Zingonia'
On Facebook, the group ‘Let’s invade Zingonia and kill them all’ has gathered 700 members. Volunteer teacher Miriam talks about how spiralling anti-immigrant rhetoric is making life difficult for Italy’s new arrivals
immigration, lega nord, silvio berlusconi, refugee, italy, right-wing, right wing extremism
Facebooking Afghani refugee children in Italy
‘In December 2008 I met four young Afghani children on a bus. I was struck by their smiles, the commotion they caused and the racism of other passengers on the bus. They had arrived that very evening, on foot, the night that the Tiber flooded. I took them with me that evening, but things didn’t turn out as expected...'
immigration, afghanistan, rome, human rights, refugee, citizen journalism, italy
Nicolai Lilin talks tattoos, Bulgarians and Transdniestria
From Russia to Italy via Transdniestria. Siberian Education, the literary debut of Nicolai Lilin, tells the life story of a young man who, in spite of changing country and culture, has never forgotten the historic traditions of his original community. Interview with the 29 year-old writer and tattoo artist
immigration, russian federation, books, italy, culture, best of cafebabel.com, tattoo
Giovanni di Lorenzo: 'why all middle-class initiatives fail in Berlin'
The Italian was born in Sweden and has become a renowned German journalist as editor of Die Zeit and a famous television face. We talk German pseudonyms, languages and Berlin versus London
15.5% unemployment, diaspora: Lithuanians try luck elsewhere
Whilst Vilnius welcomes visitors from around the world because of its status as the European capital of culture 2009, countless are leaving the country in an attempt to escape widespread unemployment and salaries which are under the European average for the most part
immigration, vilnius, identity, nationalism, nation, diaspora, lithuania
Backstage: story of a Senegalese street vendor in Rome
‘La petite vendeuse de soleil’ is a moving film first shown at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival in the 'director's fortnight' category. It tells the story of a young Senegalese girl who is a street vendor for the newspaper ‘Soleil’, a common job for immigrants living in European cities. Off the cinema screens, we meet Ndjogou Thiongane in Rome, who accompanies us on a visit to the great mosque, and tells us his own story
immigration, integration, rome, senegal, moschee, illegal immigrants, immigration
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