This Must Be The Place – Integration of migrants

The project piloted a model of integration and social inclusion for young migrants and refugees. The project’s main activities were: meetings and discussions between migrants, refugees and Italian university students using the Reflection-Action methodology; participatory urban explorations; creative activities and co-design laboratories to identify solutions to migrants’ needs of integration, housing and education, research and dialogue with local, regional and national institutions.

Since 2015, Italy, like other European countries, has been the landing point of a large flow of refugees and migrants to whom the national reception system struggled to provide an adequate response. The CAS (Extraordinary Reception Centers) which should have been the extraordinary and temporary response to the emergency of the landings, has become the definitive solution. On the opposite, the SPRAR (Protection System for Asylum Seekers and Refugees) were dismantled following the security decree approved in November 2018. The tightening of the reception system, in addition to a perpetuating state of violation of human rights, has reduced or even eliminated the access to education for migrants, job opportunities and adequate housing, leaving them at the margins of the social life in Naples, as well as in other Italian cities.