immigration

OPINION immigration : Anderlecht, Molenbeek, Schaarbeek: spot the crime in Brussels

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?

by Thimi Samarxhiu @ , cafebabel.com // 01/03/10 - 4 Comment - 8 votes

immigration, economical crisis, balkans, sex, albania, prostitution, candidate countries

ANALYSIS immigration : Polish migrants post-crisis in Ireland: is there no place like home?

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

by Angela Steen @ // 24/02/10 - 1 Comment - 10 votes

immigration, labour, economical crisis, poland, eurozone, ireland, economy

Italy's Northern League and immigration: the difference between saying and doing See the video

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16/02/10

immigration, discrimination, italy, illegal immigrants, politics

INVESTIGATION immigration : From Calais to Rosarno: Europe's 'immigrant jungles'

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%

by Anna Franca Didonna @ // 03/02/10 - 1 Comment

immigration, racism, italy, europe

PRESS REVIEW immigration : Italy fails in integrating migrants

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

by eurotopics @ // 13/01/10 - 1 vote

immigration, violence, italy, illegal immigrants, riots, society

INTERVIEW immigration : EU citizenship: when Bulgarian in Italy, marry an Italian

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

by Giacomo Rosso @ // 06/01/10

immigration, turin, italy, society

Ho, ho ho. Merry crisis-mas

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?

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Image : Images: immigrants during the crisis in the streets of Turin

Images: immigrants during the crisis in the streets of Turin

INTERVIEW immigration : Magyd Cherfi: 'identity and national is a collusion that I don’t get'

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

by Céline Lemaire @ , Gabriel Zemron @ // 01/12/09

immigration, integration, multiculturalism, identity, magyd cherfi, illegal immigrants, culture

REVIEW immigration : European bloggers describe their Berlin walls

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

by Nabeelah Shabbir @ // 06/11/09 - 1 Comment

immigration, integration, germany, construction, communism, event, budapest

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Image : Crisis, climate change: capturing European identity in a photo (16 images)

Crisis, climate change: capturing European identity in a photo (16 images)

INTERVIEW immigration : Zanko: the 'White Arab' Italian rapper who would perform for the Lega Nord

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

by Miriam Franchina @ // 16/10/09 - 2 Comment

immigration, integration, racism, rap, hip hop, italy, syrian arab republic

FEATURE immigration : Afghan asylum seekers: refugees everywhere, human beings nowhere

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

by maria cerino @ // 01/10/09 - 2 Comment - 1 vote

immigration, afghanistan, human rights, refugee, italy, european union, politics

FOCUS immigration : Finding Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Russian Facebook

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

by n- ost @ // 24/09/09 - 1 vote

immigration, germany, german chancellor, community, bundestagswahlen 2009, russian federation, frank-walter steinmeier

INTERVIEW immigration : Italian far-right on Facebook: 'kill them all in Zingonia'

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

by naomi o'leary @ // 10/09/09 - 32 Comment - 1 vote

immigration, lega nord, silvio berlusconi, refugee, italy, right-wing, right wing extremism

FEATURE immigration : Facebooking Afghani refugee children in Italy

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...'

by Tiziana Sforza @ // 17/08/09 - 1 vote

immigration, afghanistan, rome, human rights, refugee, citizen journalism, italy

INTERVIEW immigration : Nicolai Lilin talks tattoos, Bulgarians and Transdniestria

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

by Giacomo Rosso @ // 13/07/09 - 8 Comment - 1 vote

immigration, russian federation, books, italy, culture, best of cafebabel.com, tattoo

INTERVIEW immigration : Giovanni di Lorenzo: 'why all middle-class initiatives fail in Berlin'

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

by Andrea Zoppolato @ // 03/07/09 - 4 Comment

immigration, berlin, berlin-kreuzberg, italy, press, brunch

ANALYSIS immigration : 15.5% unemployment, diaspora: Lithuanians try luck elsewhere

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

by Sebastien Gobert @ // 25/06/09 - 1 Comment

immigration, vilnius, identity, nationalism, nation, diaspora, lithuania

FEATURE immigration : Backstage: story of a Senegalese street vendor in Rome

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

by Tiziana Sforza @ // 17/06/09 - 1 vote

immigration, integration, rome, senegal, moschee, illegal immigrants, immigration

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Assets for moving in space

Today I've been contemplating two "assets" I "own", which I normally don't reflect upon: white body and EU passport. What is in common between them? They facilitate certain movement in space and produce certain expectations in others. And, of course, I've been contemplating this in relation to ...

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Mixed marriage = permission for screening personal life?

People do marry out of financial and other "rational" reasons - and they have a right to! But all of the sudden, when one of the spouses is from outside the EU, the presumption of guilt is valid: it's a sham marriage unless they can prove it's not.

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Riots in Sweden: Malmö is burning

Rosengården, a district of the Swedish city of Malmö, is well known for its social problems (and the former home of Zlatan Ibrahimovic) Protests spilled over into violence on Wednesday after the owner of a building in Rosengard housing an Islamic cultural centre and a mosque chose to use the ...

Waldemar by Waldemar on stockholm

The Migration Mess

The EU currently finds itself in a conundrum. It is now a unified labour block where EU citizens can work in any member country. The benefits to this system are many, but at the same time Brussels has had to move quickly to harmonize labour rules across the bloc to ...

GulfStreamBlues by GulfStreamBlues on gulfstreamblues

The pizza maker and his passport : the mission of the E-migrant

Massimo has been pizza maker in Paris since 1970. At that time passport was still compulsory to travel between Italy and France. Travel or rather, immigrate! As all moving was, back then, far more definitive compared to the one we are used to nowadays. For Massimo, the conditions of the ...

Adriano by Adriano on eurogeneration