Italy: Flawed Migrant Regularization Program

Click to expand Image An immigrant worker picks clementines in Corgiliano-Rossano, Calabria, southern Italy, December 12, 2020. © Alfonso Di Vincenzo/KONTROLAB/LightRocket via Getty Images (Milan) – An Italian program to provide undocumented migrants with a pathway to residency adopted amid the Covid-19 pandemic did not live up to its promise, Human Rights Watch said today. It is too early to know how many people will ultimately benefit from it. But flaws in the program’s design and implementation resulted in a missed opportunity to address myriad vulnerabilities of undocumented migrants,…

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