Unaccompanied Migrant Children in Sicily. From the Arrival to a Social Inclusion Project

Knowledge about the language of the country of arrival or living, is the basic for the access to citizenship rights and social rights. Knowledge of language becomes an instrument with which to decipher the surrounding reality, translating the grammar from the field to democracy. Equality also passes through the possession of the word.Starting from the hypothesis that exists a strong link between Italian language speaking, listening, comprehension capacities and in general multilingual skills and the social inclusion of young migrants, the research aims to explore two dimensions of the Life Project of Uams. The research analyses the attendance in CPIAS (Italian language teaching and learning…

Leggere, scrivere, esserci. Minori stranieri non accompagnati: bisogni formativi e processi di inclusione.

Il fenomeno migratorio del periodo contemporaneo ripropone la questione dell’integrazione, della parità dell’accesso ai diritti fondamentali e ai diritti sociali. Per i migranti che arrivano nel nostro Paese pone altresì la questione dell’accesso alla conoscenza della lingua italiana come presupposto di integrazione. Esiste, infatti, una relazione tra conoscenza della lingua ed inclusione sociale: le parole che abbiamo, ma soprattutto le parole che ci mancano, sono la misura della nostra capacità di essere cittadini. Le capacità di leggere e scrivere possono essere considerate le competenze minime necessarie per poter intraprendere un percorso di inclusione sociale (Favaro, 2011). Le parole…

Unaccompanied minors: a route of childhood along Mediterranean sea

In the last ten years, Mediterranean sea, seen from the island of Sicily has been a big scenery for the arrival of thousands of people from Africa, in particular from the area of Maghreb (Egypt, Tunisia, etc) and also from the Sub-Saharian area such as Gambia, Guinea, Mali and so on. In particular, Sicily has been and it continues to be a big harbor where people arrive, crossing the Mediterranean and even risking death. So, many Ong’s have met people from whatever age, whatever socio-economic condition, gender and so on who have passed through the Island. The plan of research focuses on the trip of the unaccompanied minors arriving to Sicily: in fact, analyzing the migratory phenomena which…

I luoghi significativi del sistema di protezione: strutture di accoglienza e CPIA in Sicilia