• Gioiosa Marea
• immigration
• migrant emergency
• reception
• SPRAR

Italy has been experiencing for some years now a “migrant emergency”, with hundreds of thousands of people approaching illegally its shores. This led to an unsustainable situation, with too many deaths on the Mediterranean route that must be contrasted through the right policies. Policies involving a well-working International Cooperation, preventing desperate people to undertake such perilous journeys hoping for a better future. But these are mid- and long-term solutions, which have to be supported in the short-term by interventions on the current Italian reception system characterized by too many inefficiencies. These inefficiencies led to degradation and social exclusion of the migrants and often, as a consequence, to harsh confrontations with the local population.
Keeping in mind this short-term perspective, what I want to investigate through my research, is how such incidents can be prevented. In this context the local administration should play a fundamental role in addressing potential friction points between the citizens and the migrants.