Immigration, the proposals of the parties

Ius scholae instead for those who have completed 5 years of training in Italy, and for foreign students who have completed university in our country, as suggested by the 5-star Movement. The parties of Calenda and Renzi also speak of a common European asylum system, aimed at overcoming the Dublin regulation. In support of the immigration discourse, the parties promote the establishment of a Ministry of Migrationan institution that will contain within it the work that is now being carried out in tandem by different ministries.

In the programmatic document that unites Lega, Fratelli d’Italia, Forza Italia and Noi moderati, the theme of immigration is touched upon in synthesis and always in relation to the theme of national and urban security. A generic fight against irregular immigration is supported by the reintroduction of safety decrees that during the Conte bis government had been modified: very restrictive regulations on immigration (and on the issue of urban security) strongly debated but nevertheless entered into force at the behest of Matteo Salvini as former Minister of the Interior of the Conte I government.

The party born in 2013 after the split of the People of Freedom includes a few points in the program on the theme of immigration: the most concrete is the establishment of a “European Marshall Plan of Aid for Africa”, Which therefore maintains the collaboration agreements with the North African states already in place. Silvio Berlusconi then insists on one mandatory redistribution of migrants in European countries, with consequent joint management of returns.

Giorgia Meloni’s party refers without delaying too much to a narrative that has been present in Italian politics for some time. In the FdI program, immigration and security go hand in hand, suggesting that one is related to the other. Meloni also speaks of maintenance of agreements with North African countries and fair distribution of migrants arriving in our country. The party remains generic on other points such as the blocking of landings to stop the trafficking, the contrast to NGOs considered a means of promoting illegal immigration e incentives for Italians who intend to return to Italy from abroad. In the QR code proposed to deepen the immigration and security topic, Meloni talks about increasing municipal video surveillance, the fight against degradation and more commitment to the Safe Roads operation. In addition to a generic “social and labor inclusion of legal immigrants “no practical solution is indicated for the management of the migratory phenomenon.

The party founded by the exile from the 5-star movement Gianluigi Paragone almost completely shares the demands of the center-right. Also in this case, security and immigration run on the same track, placing the ban on “wild immigration” close to the need for policies for the management of the peripheries and the need for greater fiscal controls on the economy run by foreign people. The overcoming of the policies of the previous yellow-red and yellow-green governments does not provide for the implementation of concrete initiatives, other than the hiring of law enforcement personnel and “investments that allow the most recent technological equipment to be used synergistically“.

In Emma Bonino’s party program the proposals on the issue of immigration are included in the paragraph “rights and citizenship”, within which + Europa reports its positions in very broad terms and on very different issues. Between legal euthanasia, legalization of cannabis, guaranteed access to the voluntary termination of pregnancy and other civil rights, the introduction of the ius scholae and the request for the abolition of the Bossi-Fini law. In line with the proposed Unione Popolare, the program mentions the need to interrupt the renewal of the memorandum of understanding between the Italian and Libyan governments. As proposed by Action and Italia Viva, + Europa would also like to rand introduce the figure of the “sponsor”to which he adds the overcoming of the Dublin Regulation.

Unlike the other Green Europe and the Italian Left parties, they speak of the need for radical change in Bossi-Fini, supplanted by a European migration management and underpinned by a speech on immigration that looks at statistics and does not feed on populist narratives. As already expressed by other center-left parties, the program requires a review of the Italy-Libya agreements and the cancellation of funding to the so-called “Libyan coast guard”. In addition to the closure of the CPR and facilitations in terms of registration and maintenance of residence for immigrants, the two parties are also relaunching a new law on citizenship (which unites ius soli And ius scholae) as well as the extension of the right of asylum also to climate refugees.

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