Nearly 40% of migrants hosted in
Italy's Reception and Integration System (SAI) at the end of
2023 hailed from countries listed as 'safe' under legislation
drafted by Premier Giorgia Meloni's government late last year,
according to a report published by NGO ActionAid and the
Openpolis foundation.
Specifically, the study found that 12,169 people hosted in a SAI
centre at the end of 2023 hailed from one of 19 countries listed
as safe under the measure approved by the government, or 39.3%
of the total.
"The majority of asylum applications filed by people who hail
from countries considered 'safe' is rejected, although this is
not always the case", said the study.
"These are not wholly safe territories", said the study, adding
that the countries are not necessarily safe "for everybody".
The study found that the number of underage migrants staying at
centres for unaccompanied minors (MSNA) in 2023 had grown by
63.9%: they included 1,773 minors (26% of all those hosted by
the system), "a significant number considering that the figure
in 2020 was of just 48 minors (1.5% of all the migrants hosted).
The survey also reported that an increasing number of women are
staying at SAI centres for long periods of time.
Between 2014 and 2023, women in SAI centres increased five-fold
while the presence of men did not even double, the report said.
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