Common in Florence Report on CISF 5 million migrants in Italy

Presented in the Hall of the International Centre teatina Students Giorgio La Pira of Florence Report 2014 International Centre of Family Studies.

The report provides data relevant to the 5 million migrants in our country and at the same time, in collaboration with the Forum of Family Associations and Toscano Migrantes Office of the Diocese of Florence, laid the foundation for the development of a service network of active listening to migrant families in the city.

More than 4.000 the interviews conducted by the CISF, more than twice the usual measure of the sample used routinely by leading polling institutes, with two main objectives: on the one hand to investigate the knowledge of the phenomenon by Italian households and evaluation resulting in that it expresses; other, start to see if the size of the family that immigration has been widely assumed that it is perceived and in terms.

For the 48% of respondents, immigrants would not be required to cover those trades are no longer welcome to our compatriots, while 80% believe Italians should have priority over immigrants both with respect to employment opportunities that the possibilities of access to housing.

With regard to family size, for 3 italiani su 4 i matrimoni misti possono produrre maggiore integrazione culturale, and the same reunion favors their social integration.

De facto, you can conclude that according Italians families themselves can build bridges and bridge distances between groups and people who consider themselves "different".

A fine 2013, 1 bimbo su 5 iscritto all’anagrafe è figlio di immigrati e la stessa proporzione riguarda la percentuale dei nati nella nostra regione, as well as the percentage of non-Italian residents than our countrymen, emerges from the data reported by Anna Maria Bertazzoni, Director of the Institute of the Innocents in Florence, which hosted in its history over 500 thousand children.

The 3,2% minors in Tuscany is placed outside his original family, a third of these is not Italian, while 30.000 (data always end 2013) children taken into care to social services (5% the child population).

For Father Stefano Messina, Director of the Office for the Pastoral Care of Migrants of the diocese of Florence "are thirty communities of new immigrants in the diocese of Florence, and family, in a period in which the Italian Church is dedicating a Synod to the topic, is the actual place of crossing the pastoral. To be truly welcoming witnesses, the desire, to plan together to actually already very active against migrants, is to create a listening center to give exact information they need families, to counter a certain loneliness that these families live ".

According to data 2013 the relationship Idos-Unar reported by Catherine Molfetta, engaged in Pastoral Migrantes of the diocese of Turin, they are 2.350.000 families with at least one component is not Italian, while they are 5.360.000 immigrants on national soil, 8.1% of which residents, (of a total of 60.783.000). Of these, Christians are the 53,2%, the 29,6% Orthodox, the 33,1% Muslims.

Romania are over 1 million admissions, 525.000 from Morocco, 503.000 Albania, 321.000 from China and 234.000 Ukraine.

In collaboration with the Forum of Family Associations Toscano, the Office for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and the Student Centre Giorgio La Pira, l’evento, realized within the project "Integra", has laid the foundation to better evaluate the possibility of offering the Florentine community a service network of active listening to migrant families, together with reality experience and reference as ACLI, Mcl e Caritas. A perspective of network collaboration which involves institutions and associations, to plan, starting from the logic no longer individual but familiar with which we approach the need of the migrant: a hypothesis that, having to do with what Pope Francis has called on Lampedusa "the flesh of Christ", challenges the entire city community.

"The mesh of this informal network, respectful of the initiatives that each member association plays but who wants to be characterized by the full sharing of the values ​​of solidarity and fraternity in support of the needs and the needs of migrant families, aims to enrich and enhance the resources and individual peculiarities of the participating entities in the spirit of mutual understanding and internal subsidiarity - said Gianni Fini, Forum President Tuscan - the common purpose to promote the meeting and with migrant families and an easier orientation with respect to the needs and requirements. We want to encourage the development of an informal network and open to other bodies and organizations of Christian inspiration and scope ecclesial, an obviously desirable and replicable in other territories diocesan ".

On http://www.forumtoscanofamiglie.it you can consult the texts used by the speakers of the morning.

Michael Lattanzi

By the number 48 - Year II 21/01/2015