"Creating a welcoming system like
the one activated for Ukrainians could create a positive
environment for the integration and enhancement of individuals.
This best practice should not be wasted: this will be possible
if supported by a civil society free from fear and with a
far-sighted political will." Summing up the debate on 'In Search
of a New Home - Migration in Today's Europe' is University of
Perugia sociologist Isabella Corvino, who moderated a panel
attended by several academics from Spain, Latvia and Lithuania,
and specialists from Italy and Germany.
"In the past year, media and political attention was focused
on the Ukrainian invasion," she recalled, "overshadowing many
issues that remain usoluted, however. The Ukrainian refugees
have generally been well received, and the momentum of
solidarity in support of this community has been remarkable, we
might even say unprecedented. The particular composition of this
flow that is feminine for almost 90 percent of the balance and
the cultural proximity have allowed the multiplication of
initiatives for widespread hospitality, which is not the case
for flows from other areas."
Usually talking about migrants provokes immediate tension in
receiving countries: security, emergency, defense, panic are the
power words in migration storytelling. "At best - Corvino
stressed - we hear about policies to attract skilled migrants,
human resources as necessary as any mechanical tool to run the
economic machine. Some countries would prefer not to receive
economic or 'irregular' migrants, hiding behind these categories
a low capacity for valorizing subjects due in part to identity
fears".
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