Polentoni (people who eat a lot of polenta, disparaging for Norther Italians) and terroni (farmers, disparaging for Southern Italians). These classical epithets for an Italy divided in two parts from ancestral prejudices are difficult to explain. And them, at...
Last year, the number of women making the journey from Nigeria to Italy, via Libya, was almost double that of the year before. But in their attempt to escape crippling poverty, the women end up caught in trafficking rings,...
History, objectives and results of two projects able to connect tradition and social sustainability.
Villa Quaglina is the ex Priesthood Oblati of San Giuseppe in Asti. A beautiful last century villa immersed in the greenery, with a farmhouse and a...
Targets, history and numbers.
The widespread hosting starts in April 2014 following the arrival of hundreds of refugees in the area of Asti. Due to the lack of places available to reception, citizenship and the foreigners' associations present in the...
Piam, an onlus from Asti, has been the first in Italy to experience the inclusion of migrants in a family. Now examples of distribution in small groups, across different municipalities whit the support of associations, has increased. From Genoa...
On May 20th 2015, the Asti edition of the newspaper La Stampa reports: "There are landslides, but no money."
This situation poses a serious threat to the security of our territories and our road. It takes a step forward, it...
The Ottofile maze, a product from The Piedmont, almost extinguished as a consequence of the WWII, is an example of an important cultural cooperation that had obvious consequences on the food system. The collaboration between Italian and African refugees...
Role and awareness of the team in the management of reception routes for women seeking asylum-victims of trafficking.
Every asylum seeker woman victim of human trafficking represents for the Nigerian mafia an investment of about 35.000 EUR. On this budget,...
Every year, thousands of teen-agers from one city in Nigeria risk death and endure forced labor and sex work on the long route to Europe.
By Ben Taub
It was close to midnight on the coast of Libya, a few miles...
New factors and perspectives in the construction of route of economical autonomy of the asylum seekers-victims of trafficking.
The use of asylum seekers' channel by traffickers to introduce thousands of trafficking victims to Europe, radically change the approach of those...