1. Migration Asylum Orietation in Venice
Gianfranco Bonesso

2. Immigration in Veneto and in Venice
Veneto Region (Dec.2016)
Residents
(Dec.2016)
(9,9%)
Venice
Municipality
Residents
(Dec.2016)
Non nationals Residents
(13,16%)

3. Immigration in Veneto and in Venice
Veneto Region
Main groups of migrants
Romania, (25%of total amount of migrants)
Marocco (53.835, 11%),
Albania (35.313, 7,2%)
Cina (40.389, 8,3%)
City of Venice
Main groups of migrants
Banglasdesh (5.382, 15,6% of total amount of immigrants)
Romania (5.179, 15,2 %)
Moldova (4.604, 13,3%)
Cina (3.033, 8,8%)

4. City of Venice Immigration Service
Service’s development
First phase (1992 – 1995): Response
Number of gipsy families from former Yugoslavia: two camps were set up to handle incoming immigrants
Increase of foreign workers
Second phase (1996 – 2010): Projects
Creation of two interdisciplinary frameworks to handle immigration and refugees matters
Third phase (after 2010): Arrangement
Melting of two frameworks in one Service to handle search for funding, economic crisis, integration of migrants

5. City of Venice Immigration Service
Municipality of Venice
Service
Immigration and Promotion of the Rights of Citizenship and Asylum
Key word
Citizenship
Holistic approach
Empowerment
Community network
Advocacy
Communication/mediation
Participation
Intercultural exchange
Equal opportunity
Collective and individual welfare

6. City of Venice Immigration Service
Services:
legal advice (offered both on front-desk and by a telephone line)
linguistic/cultural mediation offered to schools and to social and health services
professional and specialist social services
specific aid for newly-arrived families
training for operators, voluntary workers and citizens
support for social problems
italian language classes and initiatives to promote intercultural relations
refugees projects, welcome, care assistence
support to immigrant associations
teenagers counselling for school
documentation
advice on immigration and migrating cultures to operators of public services and other services

7. City of Venice Immigration Service
Users in 2016 = 2.488
Refugees= 311
Users = Adult 72%, Minors 28%
Italian language courses = 37 (601 users)
5.900 hours of mediation

8. City of Venice Immigration Service
Service Users
Foreign citizens (individuals and families) - focus on recent arrivals –
Asylum Seekers, Refugees (and other kind of protections)
Italian citizens with immigration requests
Institutions and services providers
Associations, volunteers and private/social services
International and non governmental organizations

9. City of Venice Immigration Service
Community development
Live, share, partecipate

11. City of Venice Immigration Service
Community development
Intercultural and interreligious dialogue

12. City of Venice Immigration Service
Asylum in the city
–Some Data
Stimated:
600 refugees, 300 asylum seekers (2400 asylum seekers in all the province)
30 shelters for asylum seekers
Time for getting status (stimated 12 months)
Time spent in the shelter (stimated months)
Orientation and training during the period of reception (orientation about public and private services, training for languages and life skills, orientation of getting job and housing)

13. Partecipanti al corso per mediatori linguistico-culturali e un mediatore durante un intervento in classe
Adolescenti stranieri durante i corsi socio-educativi di Lingua Italiana

14. City of Venice Immigration Service
Orientation
For newly arrived people
for using services (information desks)
for enrolement in shool (support of educators and mediators)
for information about legal process per permit of residence ( information desk)
for choosing high school for teenager (interviews with educator and mediator, support for the choise)
orientation/information inside the training for italian language (different approaches)-teachers and tutors
about studying and training career and recognition of diplomas and educational
qualification (specialized social work or educators)
- for volontary assisted return
For asylum seekers(forced migrations)
- about public services and about life skills
- about legal status and processes to get status
-about rights and duties
-about Italian sistem of welfare, education, employment, health system, cultural opportunities
-about studying and training career and recognition of diplomas and educational qualification(specialized social work or educators)

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16. City of Venice Immigration Service
Orientation
Problems for orientation
-what you consider «orientation» (information?)
-high specialization and low compentence by orientation makers
-the contest of orientation: shelter, reception center, normal social contest
-different tools of orientation (according to language competence)
-motivation of the users
-budget to finance actions of orientation (projects with short time to implement actions)
-the frequent changing that make «elements of orientation» to update
-tools of orientation and training to connected with language skills
-the lack of a national/regional program of orientation/training for refugees

17. Migration Asylum Orientation in Venice
Gianfranco Bonesso