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Il Consiglio Nazionale dell’Ordine degli Assistenti Sociali sente il dovere di farsi portavoce di tutti coloro che a vario titolo hanno segnalato l’allarmante situazione che si è venuta a creare negli ultimi mesi a Lampedusa ed accoglie il documento predisposto del gruppo di lavoro su Minori Stranieri Non Accompagnati MSNA, composto dai consiglieri Maria Billè (referente), Massimo Corrado, Silvana Mordeglia, Maria Luisa Scardina, Maria Concetta Storaci.

COMUNICATO
L’inchiesta pubblicata in questi giorni sull’Espresso denuncia la grave situazione a Lampedusa, a fine agosto sono 225 i bambini e gli adolescenti rinchiusi da settimane nelle due strutture di detenzione di Lampedusa: 111 nel "Centro di primo soccorso e accoglienza" di Contrada Imbriacola, 114 nella base in disuso dell’Aeronautica militare. A poche decine di metri dai radar di scoperta aerea e di difesa antimissile. E dai campi elettromagnetici. La maggior parte ha più di 13 anni ed è partita senza genitori. Omar, Hamza e Maha sono i più piccoli. In uno degli ultimi agghiaccianti sbarchi di agosto, alcuni dei 25 profughi rinvenuti cadavere nella stiva del barcone approdato a Lampedusa con 271 migranti, sarebbero stati uccisi e non sarebbero morti per asfissia. Purtroppo, questa tragedia coinvolge bambini anche molto piccoli, di pochi mesi e molte donne e nuclei familiari fra i migranti sbarcati il primo agosto a Lampedusa. Un mediatore culturale di Save the Children ha avuto modo di riscontrare, da subito, che si tratta di persone molto provate e scioccate da quanto accaduto, perché tra i morti c’erano amici e conoscenti . Lo stesso operatore ha visto e incontrato alcuni dei minori e nuclei familiari giunti nella notte con un barcone salpato dalla Libia e a bordo del quale sono stati ritrovati i cadaveri di 25 migranti. Oltre ai bambini piccoli ci sono anche dei 10 adolescenti non accompagnati. In totale sono 270 i superstiti, tra cui 37 minori di cui 27 bambini da 0 a 6 anni, 33 donne. Si tratta nel caso specifico, di bambini e adolescenti che riportano traumi, non solo subiti da guerre e disperazione ma sono anche vittime di violenze assistite, che necessitano di .un progetto di tutela per minori traumatizzati con sostegni specialistici mirati e contesti di accoglienza idonea. Ad oggi ci sono oltre 2.000 i minori sbarcati a Lampedusa dall’inizio della crisi e trasferiti in comunità alloggio o in strutture di accoglienza temporanea sul territorio italiano. Ormai sono mesi "che si susseguono gli arrivi di profughi dalla Libia a Lampedusa. Bambini e adolescenti che affrontano viaggi drammatici e rischiosissimi , costretti a lunghe permanenze in strutture inidonee, che ledono i diritti e non garantiscono un’adeguata assistenza.

GRUPPO DI LAVORO MSNA (Minori Stranieri Non Accompagnati)

Il gruppo è composto daI Consiglieri Nazionali
Maria Billè, Referente del Gruppo
Massimo Corrado
Silvana Mordeglia
Maria Luisa Scardina
Maria Concetta Storaci

Obiettivi:
Report periodici e Report finale sulla situazione in Italia dei MSNA

Tempi
durata dei lavori: 6 mesi

Attività:
verifica nei luoghi di accoglienza dei MSNA
incontri con le istituzioni, ONG refernti per i MSNA
-incontri con l’ANCI
-incontri con i Ministeri competenti
-elaborazione proposte a tutela dei MSNA
-inoltre in occasione della manifestazione O Scià, come deliberato nell’ultimo Consiglio, tenutosi a Roma sabato 3 settembre u.s. il gruppo ha inviato una richiesta di partecipazione ad una serata della manifestazione O Scià 2011 che si terrà a Lampedusa dal 27 settembre p.v. per evidenziare e condividere una riflessione sull’accoglienza e sui diritti dei Minori Stranieri Non Accompagnati.

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Istituzione del Gruppo di lavoro sui Minori Stranieri Non Accompagnati

I l Consiglio Nazionale dell’Ordine degli Assistenti Sociali sente il dovere di farsi portavoce di tutti coloro che a vario titolo hanno ...

The Gillard government is hell bent on pursuing its Malaysia solution because it believes that's the only way of stopping asylum seekers trying to reach Australia by boat.

But even if the policy of sending people back to where they've come from is a great deterrent Labor is facing two roadblocks that could prove insurmountable.

First, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has declared "Malaysia is out" as far as he's concerned and the government needs coalition support to put offshore processing back on solid legal ground after last week's High Court ruling.

Second, even if the Migration Act and the Guardianship of Children Act are amended refugee advocates could challenge the Malaysia solution in the courts again - and it's not certain the commonwealth would win.

So faced with the prospect of a second bruising defeat why is the Gillard government pushing ahead with Malaysia?

The detailed answer was provided in a briefing to Abbott this week by immigration department officials.

They said the Malaysia solution was a "game changer" whereas sending people to Nauru or Manus Island in Papua New Guinea wouldn't deter them from boarding a boat because most, after a wait, would still end up in Australia.

People smugglers didn't know that when the so-called Pacific Solution began but they do now.

Department boss Andrew Metcalfe argues that the key to stopping the boats - if that's what government wants to do - is quickly returning people overseas.

It's proven to have worked in the past - the last time in 2001 and 2002 when the former Howard government towed boats back to Indonesia.

This wouldn't work nowadays as people smugglers have learnt to sabotage boats, there's no guarantee of safety for asylum seekers and, anyway, Indonesia wouldn't have a bar of it.

But, the departments says, the people swap with Malaysia was a "virtual tow-back" with humanitarian safeguards built in. Hence Immigration Minister Chris Bowen's description of it as an "elegant" policy.

The High Court begged to differ when it said the deal struck between Canberra and Kuala Lumpur wasn't good enough because a destination country had to be bound by domestic or international law to provide protection.

To get around that is simple enough, according to Australian National University international law expert Professor Don Rothwell.

The federal parliament could simply rewrite section 198A of the Migration Act so that the minister no longer had to declare a third country - say Malaysia - provided refugee assessment and human rights protections.

Prof Rothwell says if the intent was clear and unambiguous, and ruled out judicial review, the statute would override any international obligations Australia owed asylum seekers under the UN refugee convention.

It would be tough but effective.

However, there's another bump in the legal road.

Parliament would also have to change the law to allow the minister to send unaccompanied children to a third country for processing - and that could prove much trickier.

"Guardianship is not just a statutory creation but it's also recognised under the common law," Prof Rothwell told AAP.

"So there would still be the potential for legal argument to be made that the government of Australia has obligations to unaccompanied minors that arrive in this country under the common law."

But even if the changes could survive legal challenge Prime Minister Julia Gillard has to get past Abbott first.

It's been reported he might only support changes to migration law which allowed offshore processing in countries that had signed the UN refugee convention.

That could be done quite easily, Prof Rothwell says.

Which would leave Gillard in a political bind and Abbott, potentially, in a moral one.

The PM could acquiesce, give up on Malaysia, and reopen the Nauru and Manus Island centres only.

But according to departmental advice that won't stop the boats.

Alternatively, she could dig in. But without being able to change the law offshore processing wouldn't be an option.

Onshore processing only could see 600 people arriving by boat every month which would quickly overwhelm Australia's detention capacity.

If people lived in the community while being processed there's a risk of European-style unrest, the government has been told.

Abbott's dilemma is more complex.

If he insists on saying no to Malaysia all advice suggests the flow of boats will increase.

That might be good for him politically in that he can continue to use the arrivals to attack Labor (unless the government successfully changes the entire tenor of the debate).

But if the Gillard government falls Abbott may well face the same border protection problem.

It's a case of "Be careful what you wish for". (businessspectator.com.au)

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PM and Abbott face off over boat arrivals

The Gillard government is hell bent on pursuing its Malaysia solution because it believes that's the only way of stopping asylum seeker...

Il Consiglio c'è, anzi no. O meglio c’è all’inizio della seduta, approva un provvedimento, poi non più, manca il numero legale e allora si torna tutti a casa.

Questa la piroetta del secondo Consiglio comunale dopo la pausa estiva. Comunque In compenso viene approvato un provvedimento di non poca incidenza economica e sociale. Ben 1 milione e 600.000 euro di debito fuori bilancio destinato al welfare. Nello specifico a minori stranieri non accompagnati e donne straniere in gravidanza senza famiglia. Non un provvedimento nuovo, ricorda l’assessore al ramo Abbaticchio: la somma “si aggiunge a quella già prevista nel Piano Sociale di Zona, pari a 1 milione e 100 mila euro”. A voler snocciolare due dati, 200 sono i minori stranieri già assistiti lo scorso anno e ben doppia si preannuncia la spesa sociale per l’anno in corso dati i rivolgimenti del nord Africa

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Approvato dal Consiglio Comunale di Bari un debito fuori bilancio per Minori stranieri non accompagnati e donne stranieri in gravidanza senza famiglia

Il Consiglio c'è, anzi no. O meglio c’è all’inizio della seduta, approva un provvedimento, poi non più, manca il numero legale e allora...

In December 2010, Washington attorney Jennifer Podkul received a call from the Department of Homeland Security inspector general's office, asking to speak with one of her clients.

The client was a minor, 17, when Podkul, a legal aid group attorney, happened to meet him during a routine visit to a Virginia juvenile jail. The boy had been sent to the Northern Virginia Juvenile Detention Center, which has an immigration wing, after U.S. Border Patrol agents caught him, unaccompanied by any family members, crossing into Texas from Mexico for the third time.

The first time the boy had crossed into the United States was in 2009, he was 16, with a backpack of marijuana a gang told him to carry. He told Podkul he had asked agents then if he could stay and offered to give them information about smuggling routes.

Instead, the boy told the lawyer, the agents had their own proposal: They told him to go back to Mexico and get more information, including names of smugglers. The request was a direct violation of the intent of 2008 federal legislation designed to help stop abuse of minors by human traffickers, Podkul told iWatch News.

Now it appeared that the IG's office wanted the boy to cooperate in their own investigation of how the agents had treated him.

"They wanted to show him photos of the agents," Podkul said, "and to talk to him." The boy, she said, had been "terrified of the Border Patrol," but he had also been terrified of not making his delivery of drugs for the gang that an uncle had allegedly forced him to enter into at 14.

Border Patrol spokesman Bill Brooks, who is based in Marfa, Texas, said he wasn't aware of the inquiry into Border Patrol agents in Texas that Podkul described. He added that he couldn't comment on pending legislation affecting the Border Patrol.

"Our agents are trained, and they're going to be on the side of the juvenile during the process," he said. "If we find signs of trafficking, we turn the case over right away to investigators at Immigration and Customs Enforcement."

But the inquiry by Homeland Security's inspector general serves to illuminate other, broader concerns about having Board Patrol agents undertake the sensitive interviews, or screenings, that Congress has mandated of unaccompanied minors, specifically Mexicans, who cross illegally into the United States.

Congress added the provision for screening youths from Mexico and Canada to the Trafficking Victims Protection and Reauthorization Act in 2008 as a way to identify minors who may be under the control of drug or sex traffickers or who may face other threats if sent home. But its effectiveness has been questionable and child-welfare advocates say better screening and more reforms are needed to dissuade minors from repeat crossings, and prevent them from becoming prey of violent criminal gangs on the border.(Huffington Post)

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Mishandled minors: Detained immigrant children need better assistance

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Prime Minister Julia Gillard says it is unclear whether the High Court decision on the Malaysian asylum seeker swap deal rules out any offshore processing in the future.

Ms Gillard met with her cabinet in Brisbane on Wednesday night to consider oral advice from the solicitor-general on the High Court decision quashing the deal.

She told reporters in Brisbane on Thursday the advice showed there were questions about whether any offshore processing was possible.

"There are questions over the future of offshore processing arrangements that must be considered," she said.

"And it is far from clear whether the court's ruling would, practically speaking, permit the operation of offshore processing in other locations, even in locations where offshore processing has been conducted in the past."

But Ms Gillard said she was determined to break the people smugglers' business model, which the Malaysian agreement would have done.

The High Court's decision was "disappointing", and went against the government's own legal advice about the legality of the Malaysian agreement.

"Yesterday ... what we saw was the High Court enter into a different construction of the relevant section of the Migration Act," she said, adding that it turned on its head the government's understanding of migration law.

Ms Gillard said the government would digest the legal advice and make a comprehensive statement outlining the government's plans.

The court's ruling represented a missed opportunity, she said.

"A missed opportunity to enhance our region's response to the evil of people smuggling.

"A missed opportunity to make a real and important contribution to the region's approach to the transnational crime of people smuggling through the Bali framework.

"And it is a missed opportunity ... to send a message to asylum seekers not to risk their lives at sea and get into boats."

Immigration Minister Chris Bowen said the ruling was likely to have a significant impact on any government's attempts to send unaccompanied minors to an offshore location.

"The situation with unaccompanied minors has changed under law," he said.

Sending unaccompanied minors offshore would involve the immigration minister giving written permission that would be judicially reviewable, he said.

"Which would make the removal of unaccompanied minors to any offshore location, under any regime, one that is highly problematic."

The prime minister defended Mr Bowen when asked if the minister had offered to resign following the court's ruling.

"Minister Bowen at all times acted on the best advice available to him and acted with a clear determination and resolve to break the people smugglers' business model," Ms Gillard said.

"That's what I asked him to do as minister."

Ms Gillard said the High Court had changed the interpretation of immigration law, singling out chief justice Robert French for mention.

"His honour ... considered comparable legal questions when he was a judge of the Federal Court and made different decisions to the one that the High Court made yesterday," she said.

Ms Gillard said the government would respond to the decision carefully and methodically.

Ms Gillard said she would not rule out using Nauru or reintroducing temporary protection visas despite opposition from Labor's Left faction.

"The only guarantee that I ever give is every decision we take will be taken in the national interest," she said.

"We will make a comprehensive statement when we are in a position to."

Mr Bowen has spoken with his Malaysian counterpart and says the latter understands the government's legal position.

"He has recommitted Malaysia to working very closely with Australia on all these issues," he said.

"He has indicated that from his point of view this does not in any way diminish or affect the very warm working relationship between Australia and Malaysia.

Mr Bowen said he had no intention of stepping down as immigration minister because he had an obligation to the prime minister, the government and the country to see his job through.

"The easy option would be to resign," he said.

"The only thing that would happen if I resign would be my quality of life might go up, nothing else is going to be impacted by that."