milano "project financed under the european fund for integration of third-country...

Milano

"Project financed under the

European Fund for Integration of

Third-Country Nationals"

MUNICIPALITY OF MILAN

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Soleterre case study: Integrated Support

Experiences between

♦ Italy and Ukraina ♦ Italy and El Salvador

At distance families and family rejoining

European Project: “Healthy and Wealthy Together”

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ASSOCIATION “SOLETERRE” COOPERATION/DEVELOPMENT

In carrying out actions for development of their native communities

In supporting women and migrating families to manage with more awareness their migrating project, in their main aspects (job, family’s relations, rights) between Italy and the Native Country

Soleterre Association studies and realizes co- international projects inside a co-development view by promoting migrants’ active role

In 2008, - in Milan - a “CENTRE” is set up, which gives an integrated support to migrants (on legal, psychological, social and job matters), in contact with the twin CENTRES, operating in Marocco, El Salvador and Ukraina, in cooperation with Milan Municipality governance system on family reunifications.

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Families’Counselling

Integrated approach

Transnational dimension of

migrating project and of belonging to communities

The dimension of working

and family’s project

Reception to migrants at 360°

Legal Consultatio

n

Job and business orientationSupport to

rejoining and at distance families

Joint Work with StaffsIn Native Countries

With Migrants

groups and associations

Milan’s System

POLICY

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WHERE: Milan, San Salvador and Chalatenango

PARTNERS: Soleterre/San Salvador, Romero Community in Milan /Chalatenango, (with Consulate El Salvador in Milan support, and Italian Embassy support in El Salvador)

FUND: Lombardia Region, Labour, Health and Social Policies Ministry.

WHO: First-emigrating women (around 70% women from El Salvador are resident in Milan), families of origin

CASES: at distance conflict relationship, family cohesions (this nationality doesn’t need a VISA), mostly with minors sons (around 50 per year in Milan according to experience of Romero Community)

THE EL SALVADOR CASE

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WHERE: Milan and the Region of L’viv

PARTNERS: Foundation Zaporuka, Women Perspectives (with the support of the Regional Social Policy Department of L’viv)

FUND: Unicredit Foundation

WHO: Women (81% over 40 in the Region of Lombardia - 2009), most of them employed as care assistants in families (46% cohabiting with employer- 2009) and families of origin, schools, institutions.

CASES: “Italian Syndrome” (as a consequence of the isolation of working conditions and of “freezed” family relationships), at distance family relations, rejoining of adult children and, just recently, minors too (nephews of reunited daughters, minors as consequence on immigration amnesty in 2009)

THE UKRAINA CASE

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IIntercultural mediation / groups and A

ssociations

Notebook of the families

“Family blazon”

Interviews with psychologist/gro

up meetings

Legal and/or psychological

interview/ group meetings

SUPPORT TO REJOINING AND TO AT DISTANCE FAMILIES: GOALS AND TOOLS

Information/awareness on family and immigration rights, assistance to documents preparation, orientation to territorial services.

To promote a planning of rejoining family, accompanying sons and parents

To promote a shared family project. Mothers/ their sons, and the native family-/other members of the family, either in Italy, as in Native Country.

To promote awarness on migrant family identity in Italy and in the Native Country. (How I see myself? How the Italian society is looking at me? How the people from my Native Country are looking at me?)

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WHAT IS IT

A service, where it is possible for migrants in Italy - in a “Centre “ of Milan - to get in touch through SKYPE with their family in El Salvador.

A group process to accompany, to support and to share the difficulties of transnational communication, in order to elaborate the emotional and psychological feelings connected to family relations changes and to being parents at distance.

A place - where all the migrant families, both in Italy and in El Salvador – are assisted by a joint work staff: intercultural mediator, psychologist, educator and legal consultant

PILOT PROJECT : TRANSNATIONAL COMMUNICATION WITH EL SALVADOR

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10 families meeting monthly as a pilot group ( 4/5 hours ) Joint Work Staff: Intercultural Mediator, Psychologist,

Educator. Three phases meeting

1 PHASEGroup process:

Narration activity on family

ITALYNATIVE

COUNTRY

2 PHASEIndividual

Skype communication

3 PHASEWriting a diary

of the family

The migrantThe migrant The three generation family

The three generation family

REALIZATION OF THE PROJECTTIME AND PERFORMANCE

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40 families’ cases have been supported in 2009-2010: post-reunification phase, couple conflicts related to reunification process, lonely mothers, minors deseases.

RESULTS

•7 families are evaluating the reunification in Italy, 3 ongoing ( 2010 )•3 families have decided not to re, but they have improved their own at a distance relations ( 2010 )

EL SALVADOR

10 families have followed the program of transnational communication in 2009-2010:

UKRAINA

14 women involved in the first process for the transnational web-site communication.Different families’ cases: divorces, rejoinings with adult children with depression problems, and with nieces.

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Families at distance don’t have a common family project: migrating members and left-behind members aren’t able to elaborate a common project, because of the distance and the new family’s condition. This is a reason why the family relationships could be seriously affected during the rejoining process (ex. El Salvador) or in a protracted life at distance (cfr. Ukraina).

The emigrating families have to be accompanied and supported in the process, in welcoming country and in native country. It native contry it’s important to accompany not just the son but also adult who are in charge of their education in order to promote a shared family project (economic and educational ones).and to prevent deseases

OUTSTANDING POINTS

Importance of governance and policy action at two levels:

1) At institutional level: welfare transactional policies, migrants family’s programs in emigration countries (family reunifications, family economical investment, etc…)

2) At local level (families and Communities level): orienting families and local communities in their strategies of savings and investment (remittance and co-development ) / deconstructing migrant condition stereotypes

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