SHELF naval battle against the right of asylum
A wise policy antirifugiati Fabrizio Mastromartino
BOOKS Laura Boldrini, ALL BACK, Rizzoli, PP. 218, EURO 18
Recent news of the closure is in Libya, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), carried out by the government of Tripoli without warning and without apparent justification. An operation, which in fact affect the possibility of cooperation between Libya and the United Nations agency and compounded the already difficult conditions in which migrants and refugees in Libya who want to reach Italy by means of luck . A condition became desperate as a result of rejections at sea to Libya, becoming increasingly commonplace since May 6 last year, an unequivocal sign of contempt for the rights of refugees and asylum seekers, downgraded to media for the implementation of migration policies repressive symbolic and strategic.
is in this context is critical to read the book by Laura Boldrini, UNHCR spokesperson in Italy since 1998. In a volume agile, full of stories that made the record of migration in Italy over the past two decades, Boldrini performs a cultural as useful as difficult to clarify in the current discourse on refugees and asylum seekers, offering the reader a witness of his professional experience.
We understand the interest it deserves an entry like this: expression of a partial point of view but at the same time, objective, since the result of an institutional approach not politically oriented, but informed the solid reasons for the law, as laid down in national and international rules on asylum, the Italian State is obliged to respect. From the story by Boldrini, alternating tones typical of the complaint to the journalistic-style diary of his experience shines through an alternative reading to that imposed by the news media and political discourse and institutional framework of migration and its most tragic and alarming: crossings of migrants from the Mediterranean coast of Africa to the Italian territory. The result is an image divided but coherent, composed of elements which are rarely the subject of consideration and analysis in the Italian public discourse. The
Boldrini first move is to roll over and empty rhetoric associated with the siege of emergency which would be subject to the Italian coast for almost two decades. This is an unfounded rhetoric, built on partial data that, when properly interpreted, show an under which much of the ordinary and nothing special: the number of migrants who enter Italy by sea is only a fraction of the total illegal entry, which in turn is much lower than the numbers that affect the majority of European countries. Emergency, we should say instead, adds Boldrini, not in relation to the landing, but the growing number of shipwrecks and deaths at sea: the emergence to solve is the unimaginable suffering of those who, in order to reach Italy, rely on unscrupulous traffickers attempting a (paradoxical) desperate journey of hope by the very high cost: the unacceptable risk of losing their lives.
Well, in the face of this disconcerting fact, Boldrini known as the sea crossings to be more transparent mirror of the inevitable nature of the choices of those who try to come to Italy to seek protection. A choice necessitated by circumstances, in addition all'involontarietà the original decision to leave their own country that characterizes the refugees forced to flee from conflicts and oppressive regimes: the sea, in short, as the only input channel, given the almost total absence of legal channels for access to the application for protection, which already amounts to a waiver of the guarantee of asylum in Italy, to a repudiation of international commitments, and the same Constitution where asylum is enshrined as inviolable right . With the practice of rejections at sea, which involves the systematic violation of the principle of non-refoulement, is what appears at first sight, as a waiver of the guarantee of asylum, is shown for what it actually is: a clear refusal to honor the commitments undertaken before the international community, as well as a radical repudiation of the values \u200b\u200bthat form the identity of democratic, liberal and social, of the Italian Republic: respect of non-negotiable dignity and fundamental human rights.
What in the name of the fight against illegal immigration, which affects a phenomenon, that of the inputs by sea, which has nothing illegal, as the migrants themselves to signal their presence in waters adjacent to the Italian border, UNHCR or Italian security forces themselves. Yet another paradox that confirms and deepens the gap between what the immigrants want to do (to get around the security apparatus designed to prevent access to the Italian territory: that is a choice necessitated by the lack of legal channels of entry for refugees) and what they can do, or ask to be rescued in sea \u200b\u200bbecause Italy to take charge of their legitimate claim for protection
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