Initiatives related to integration

The quick increase in the  number of immigrants who regularly  stay in Italy, requires  the implementation of initiatives  aiming at the promotion of a mutual knowledge, for the recognition  and the respect  of the different  cultural identities.
The State, Regions,  Provinces and Municipalities, in the framework of their own competences, favour the following initiatives:

• the diffusion of any kind of useful  information with  the purpose of a positive  integration  of aliens in the Italian society,  such as the knowledge  of their own rights and obligations, the opportunities of integration  and  growth  from the  personal point of view and at the level of the relevant  communities, offered  by the public  administrations and  by the associations, as well as the possibilities of a positive reintegration  into the  country of origin
• the knowledge  and the enhancing of the cultural, recreational, social, economic and religious expressions of those aliens who regularly stay  in Italy  as well as each  initiative of information about  the reasons for immigration and of prevention  of racial discrimination  (Art. 42 of the Legislative Decree 286/98)

THE “CIVIS” PROJECT – TOWARDS A  MULTIRACIAL SOCIETY”

This project has been  started by the Ministry of the Interior  in compliance with the European programmes  regarding immigration. This is a three-year-project, consisting in a series of initiatives for the promotion of the integration of immigrants, elaborated by RAI  (Italian  Broadcasting Corporation ), financially supported  by the European Union with the resources  of the structural Fonds 2000/2006 in the framework of the Programme for the  Security and Development  of the South, approved by the Commission of the European Union.
On the website of the  RAI (Italian  Broadcasting Corporation) there are two sections  devoted to  the children from 4 to 10 years  (www.junior.rai.it/cittadiniimmigrati),   and to  the Italian and foreign citizens  (www.cittadiniimmigrati.rai.it)

The purposes

• to help the non- EU migrants, by means of specific  multi-medial  supports, to  get integrated into our country
• to inform the Italian citizens  in order to create  a new awareness of the multiracial society
• to  widespread a new image of the migrants among the public opinion, by explaining their   contribution  from the point of view of the work, as well as at the economic and demographic level, with the purpose of  underlining the importance of their presence in our country
• to inform about  the new social action  carried out by the Ministry of the Interior

The addressees

• adults of Italian nationality  so that, by means of a correct  information activity:
  -  they completely  understand the  complex framework  of immigration  and can contribute to the process of integration  of the  several ethnic groups.
  -    they get to know  the activity of the Ministry of the Interior aiming, on the one hand, at limiting the flows of illegal immigration  and in particular the herewith connected criminal activities,  and, on the other hand,   at ensuring adequate living standards  to the legal immigration
• adult immigrants as a whole, so that, also thanks to   the initiatives expressly  addressed to  them, they can overcome  the integration difficulties  in our country
• the children of Italian nationality, so that they can get in  touch, since their infancy, also with the persons who don’t belong to their same culture or to their same ethnic group
• the immigrant children  so that, even by means of  the initiatives expressly concerning them, they can get to  know  the cultural and reference codes of the receiving country, by getting gradually integrated into the Italian society

The practical  initiatives

• production   of information and educational  material  addressed to non-EU migrants, in the shape of press prospects, audio- and video cassettes;  each product shall be accomplished in seven editions in  French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Arab, Philippine, Albanian
• diffusion, by means of  the radio and TV programmes of the  RAI (Italian  Broadcasting Corporation),   of  the contents  and  of the messages  which  explain the possibilities of integration  of the migrants in Italy and which inform the Italian citizens in this respect