Angelo Boccato

When Luciana Lamorgese, Italy’s Minister of the Interior, decided to change the country’s migration decrees established by her predecessor – the far-right politician Mateo Salvini – the Italian government led by Giuseppe Conte praised her. These changes were seen as a fundamental change to the country’s migration policies and a disassociation of Salvini’s far right politics.
The infamous Salvini Decree had removed humanitarian protection from a reason for granting asylum and...

La quarta stagione di The Crown segna l’arrivo della figura della Thatcher e rivive una guerra ai diritti senza precedenti
La prima stagione di The Crown, una delle produzioni più celebri di Netflix, creata da Peter Morgan, sceneggiatore di The Queen (2006) si apriva col matrimonio della Regina Elizabeth con il Principe Philip nel 1947 e nel corso delle successive tre stagioni la serie ha affrontato dinamiche familiari e intrecci con la storia del Regno Unito, dalla disintegrazione del matrim...

Una famiglia di curdo-iraniani sono le ultime vittime di un lungo elenco di migranti che tentano la traversata via mare dalla Francia
Rasoul Iran-Nejad, 35 anni, con la coetanea Shiva Mohammad Panahi, erano una coppia curda-iraniana e i genitori di Anita e Armin, di nove e sei anni rispettivamente e di un bambino piccolo, Artin.
La famiglia aveva cercato, lo scorso martedì 27 Ottobre, di attraversare lo Stretto della Manica per raggiungere il Regno Unito, ma l’imbarcazione sulla quale stavano...

Barcelona striker Luis Suàrez has been caught up in allegations of cheating in an Italian language exam to secure citizenship, and a 10-million-a-season salary at Juventus. Amid the controversy surrounding the footballer, a wider conversation is going on – the need to update the nation’s old, and extremely prohibitive, citizenship laws.
As per Italian law, only those of ius sanguinis (blood right) are recognised as citizens, unless an individual is raised in Italy as a child, and, directly ap...

As soon as UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was diagnosed with the novel Coronavirus, his team jumped at the opportunity to point out that the virus poses an equal risk to everyone.
“The fact that both the prime minister and the health secretary have contracted the virus is a reminder that the virus does not discriminate,” Cabinet Officer minister Michael Gove told a press conference shortly after the PM’s diagnosis.
Even though both the Prime Minister and Prince Charles con...

Almost a month after the Italian Civil Aviation Authority (ENAC) suspended all flights between Italy and China on 31 January, the country has found itself at the epicentre of the European outbreak of the coronavirus.
The situation has temporarily halted tensions political tensions within the coalition government, but disputes are still breaking out across party lines, including within the far-right opposition led by Matteo Salvini and Giorgia Meloni, leaders of the League and Brothers of Ital...

By Angelo Boccato
During the Media Diversity Institute (MDI) and Silence Hate’s Media Camp in London in April 2018, I was reflecting on how the social, media and political debate tends to sink down to new horrifying depths when African migrants, refugees and asylum seekers are concerned.
While the whole debate is polluted by fake news and misconceptions, and fueled by the far-right agenda, when it comes to African migrants we would hear labels like “invasion”, “economic migrants” and the absu...

EARLY THIS MONTH, MATTEO SALVINI—the leader of Italy’s far-right, anti-migrant League party—was removed from his position as interior minister, when the government made a turn to the center. Since he’d started the job, last summer, Salvini had presided over a rise in harassment and violence against migrants, announcing from the start that “the good time for illegal immigrants is coming to an end.” He reached for more power, and then lost what he had, though his supporters—chanting “Elections! Elections!” in the chamber of parliament—suggest there could be more of him ahead. For the most part,

Da tre anni la Brexit è al centro della scena politica britannica e internazionale. La situazione è stata spesso paragonata a un tunnel nel quale si sono incagliate le trattative per l’uscita del paese dall’Unione europea. In questo stallo ci sono delle variabili di cui si tiene poco conto: la crescita della destra e dell’estrema destra britannica, e la loro influenza sul governo.
Lo United Kingdom independence party (Ukip) è una delle forze principali di questa partita. Tradizionalmente iden...

At first, it seemed like the 91st Academy Awards posed promising for diversity, particularly given its history of being called out for its overwhelming whiteness. Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Black Panther was nominated for several awards, as was Spike Lee’s BlackKKKlansmen, representing great leaps in recognition of African-American artists, actors and directors.
Two international films, Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma and Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War were also nominated for both Be...

Last month, Dutch pastor Derk Stegeman finally concluded a 97 day, 24-hour per day “mass marathon” at the Hague’s Bethel Church. The exceptionally long church service was a legal and clerical experiment to protect Hayarpi Tamrazyan, an Armenian refugee that has lived in the Netherlands for nine years. After being denied political asylum, she and her family were facing deportation.
Eventually, it was successful—at the end of January, Tamrazyan and ...

The return of Christian Masset, the French Ambassador in Italy on Friday 15 February has not been the end of Italian diplomatic crises.

European Parliament president Antonio Tajani and Italy’s deputy prime minister and minister of the interior, Matteo Salvini were accused by Slovenia of “historical revisionism” following last Sunday’s celebration in Basovizza, near the Slovenian border, during National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe. Croatia also protested following the two Italian poli...

Music collector Ollie (Rory Culkin) and his boisterous Russian friend/partner-in-crime Nikolai (Robert Sheehan) travel to the Ollie’s family estate in order to steal a valuable jazz record. Their plans go awry when Ollie’s estranged grandmother Charlie (Mary Beth Peil) unexpectedly arrives at the estate accompanied by her neighbour Marlena (Elizabeth P...