WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY News Journal Update - (en) Italy, FdCA, Il Cantiere #16: The finger and the moon When the wise man points to the moon, the fool looks at the finger (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 In the Via Campesina article that you find on page 10, you can read this

description which fits well into the real reasons for the migrations to which
many populations of our world are subject. Even hunger is violence. The pandemic
and ongoing conflicts have only accentuated hunger. All these so-called crises
are an indictment of the dominant model of capitalism that exists today. Our
territories, whose climate and biodiversity are continually destroyed as
capitalist interests impose new and increasingly dangerous technologies without
any public debate, consultation or participation, threaten every way of life
around the world.
Political and social instability is widespread due to systematic murders,
massacres, enforced disappearances, high rates of femicide, arbitrary
imprisonment and detention, intimidation, harassment and threats, persecution of
defenders of territories, forced migration and wars against ordinary people. "
Migration is a dramatic phenomenon; millions of people are forced to leave their
land and their loved ones, to sever social relationships forever, to face
humiliation and hardship, when it is okay to find oneself catapulted into often
hostile social contexts, marginalized in the humblest jobs, with habits, customs
and traditions with which are difficult to compare and integrate.
The situation that international organizations have been monitoring for years
bears witness to a growing process. The figures tell us that the number of
migrants in 1970 stood at 84 million out of a total population of about 3.7
billion, to reach 281 million in 2020 out of a population that has now exceeded
the ceiling of 8 billion. That is, it passes from 2.3% to 3.6% of the world
population, but while the population in the period in question grows by 217%, the
increase for migrants is approximately 334%. The number of people fleeing their
homeland is directly influenced by the economic and social conditions of extreme
poverty, by increasingly devastating climatic emergencies, but in recent years
predominantly by the outbreak of armed conflicts: from Syria, to Afghanistan,
from 'Ukraine, to Yemen.
In 2021 twenty-three countries were the scene of wars of medium or high
intensity, for a total population of 850 million people, according to data from
the World Bank, overall according to the Armed conflict location & event data
project (Acled), an international organization that every week intercepts and
publishes data and numbers to classify the various forms of violence present in
the world, from wars to the most serious episodes of crime, there are 59 of them.
A lot of literature has accumulated around the problem of migrants in recent
years and in particular in the rich countries of the West (a definition which in
itself already outlines a conception of dominance of some countries, Europe, over
the rest of the world) xenophobic parliamentary majorities raising the specter of
the loss of one's own identity not only cultural but, with a poorly concealed
racism, also of ethnic replacement.
Here the problem of migrations is transformed into a defense of Western
civilisation, a defense against an invasion to which it is necessary to oppose
rejections and prison structures in countries which, adequately financed, carry
out the dirty work for civilized Europe.
And yet, although the number of migrants is significant and significantly
increasing, the reality tells us that the majority of people globally (96.4%)
reside in the country where they were born, IOM (International Organization for
Migration) data and not we are at all in the presence of offensive actions aimed
at subverting the "free" and "civilized" Western democracies.
All in all, therefore, a circumscribed phenomenon which, net of the causes linked
to the development model and the clash for control of the markets which generated
economic wars and wars waged, could and should have been faced with mechanisms of
reception and management of migratory flows which, although not decisive would
have made it possible to limit the holocaust that occurs daily in our seas.
It wasn't like that. Indeed, over the years we have witnessed a real "war on
legal immigration". In 2010, around 600,000 residence permits were issued in
Italy to non-EU citizens, a number that decreased to 240,000 in 2021, compared to
177,000 in 2019, down even before the pandemic.
This is the consequence of the tightening of regulations and the reduction of
legal channels with the consequent increase in power of criminal organizations.

The response that has been built over the years to deal with these emergencies
has canceled the need and pain that drives these migrations and year after year
work has been consciously done for the criminalization of this phenomenon.
The migrant is not a person to be helped, but a subject who comes to undermine
our societies and therefore must be filed, imprisoned and rejected.
Therefore, this reception system has seen the prevalence of a militarized
immigration management and the dismantling of those few forms of civilian
reception, managed by local administrations, such as the SPRAAR (Protection
system for asylum seekers and refugees), albeit insufficient but , which had
indicated, at least in part, the path of integration and mingling.
The rhetoric of safety, which has always been used to create a social alarm that
distracts from the real problems of a working class increasingly impoverished by
the freeze on wages and pensions, by cuts in welfare and health care, is having
the paradoxical, but certainly not unaware , the result of an increase in the
number of irregular persons: the invisible army of the denied, those who are
denied humanitarian protection, who have no possibility of regularizing
themselves, or even of being treated.
Prisoners of a country that says it does not want them, given that a more or less
voluntary repatriation policy is not credible, but is ready to exploit them and
lock them up in ever larger, ever more inhumane, ever more numerous detention
centres.
The need for a scapegoat to point out to public opinion, fomenting absolutely
unjustified forms of hatred and fear in the vast majority, has been and is the
engine of carefully orchestrated campaigns, in which openly reactionary and
fascist groups have had and still have a predominant.
That in reality immigrants are functional to the continuation and good
performance of the capitalist productive economic structure is well known.
In Italy, about 60% of those who look after our elderly, the so-called carers,
and 74% of domestic workers are foreigners, as are 30% of farm workers and 30% of
construction workers.
The recognition of full citizenship rights for these women and men present in our
country would make their exploitation more difficult, breaking many of the
weapons of blackmail in the hands of legal or illegal masters.
For this reason it is necessary to re-launch a response to the economic policies
of the government, and of the bosses, not limited to the sole terrain of
anti-racism, but which attacks the root of the social malaise that unites the
native and immigrant proletariat and the new generations of male and female
workers now succubus of a labor market that offers only precarious and underpaid
work.
Cutro is the consequence of all this. The tragic and profound reasons that move
people in search of a more dignified life condition, which we have tried to
outline, are canceled and the whole tragedy of the deaths is placed on the last
pawn of that criminal traffic: the smuggler.
Hitting hard those who drive these boats, often little more than floating
wreckage, is the decisive goal of the government and the help that is sought in
Europe goes in this direction.
The fact that in the last ten years 2500 smugglers have been arrested without
this contributing to limiting departures has not made us reflect, just as we
pretend not to see that not only are these smugglers also the fruit of
desperation, challenging how others death, but also the fact that very often they
were unjustly arrested because they were forced by those who manage human
trafficking from the ground.
So when the wise man points to the moon, the fool looks at the finger.

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