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The Compass Destination Europe, Italy: The Priest and The Mayor Italy's Migrant Crisis

Migrants in southern Italy, with starkly varying lives, get very different kinds of help.

  • The town benefits from the migrants
  • The newcomers are learning Italian fast
  • Migrants turned one tent into a makeshift mosque
  • A previously empty and rundown house converted into centre for asylum seekers.
  • Tent city includes government-supplied tents & plastic covered shacks built by the migrants themselves.
  • Tent City in San Ferdinando houses hundreds of migrants
  • Italian lessons for the migrants funded by the government.
  • The Refugee Centre
  • Mayor Salvatore Fuda's view on the migrants.

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