Friday, November 19, 2010

A million children 'foreign', more than half were born here


Rome - November 18, 2010 - There are 932,000 foreign children living in Italy. 6 out of 10 of them are second generation (so-called G2), that 'born in Italy. Meadow with 19.7% under the second generation of its total foreign population, Mantova (17.2%), Cremona (17%), Brescia and Reggio Emilia (16.9%), South Trapani (14, 2%) and Palermo (12.7%) are the provincial capitals with the most 'high percentage of G2.

And 'what emerges from' Treasure Island-Atlas of children (at risk) in Italy 'for Save the Children, presented today along with the new interactive website www.atlanteminori.it at the Bank of Italy.

But there are also children and adolescents almost nameless and faceless, almost 'invisible' cause their lives are partly or completely hidden and clandestine, hundreds of mostly minor 'and only foreigners who stay for short periods in the community' to then run away, or who end up in circuits of labor exploitation, sexual deviance. In 2010 are at least 4,500 unaccompanied foreign minors in Italy.

One thing sure to default, which does not include, for example, children new EU citizens. And foreigners are thousands of child workers: 9% of all working children, estimated at about 400,000. They are mostly Chinese, in Rome, Milan and Florence, Prato, Romanians and Albanians, Roma and Bari, young North Africans in Sicily and Calabria.

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