In his column «Palomar», Antonio Polito returns to the topic of immigration and comments on the ploy used to clearances for migrants: «It seems like it works more or less like this: a Bangladeshi citizen with a regular work permit in Italy shows up at one of the many mediation agencies that have sprung up in Campania – explains Polito – and declares himself willing to pay a fee to get a job request for a Bengali relative or friend. At this point the mediator starts looking for a company available to make the application on the click day on the Interior Ministry portal”.
But if he doesn’t find it, what does he do? «He invents one. From the investigations already conducted by the anti-mafia prosecutor’s office there are many fake companies, many fake cooperatives and even the names of entrepreneurs who have already died some time ago, whose tax data and VAT number were used. The so-called mediation can cost up to €15,000, which is the price that the immigrant will pay to be able to return to Italy illegally.” After that disappears into the ocean of illegal work“because once he has obtained the authorization and arrived in Italy, he would have to sign a regular employment contract which he instead signs only in 2.8% of cases”.
The Campania-Bangladesh axis it is a crucial hub of this traffic: «Three times as many authorization requests as the whole of Lombardy have arrived from Campania; from the province of Naples alone, however, a higher number of requests arrived than from Veneto and Emilia Romagna combined”.
In recent years, the absolute majority of immigrants who entered with the flow decree come from Bangladesh: «This situation demonstrates that the Bossi-Fini law is an old piece of iron that is leaking from all sides and finally a centre-right government recognizes that this law must be changed – notes Polito – But be careful, because in recent years the job market has absorbed all these migrants who have disappeared into illegal work. The problem is not to stop them arriving, but to ensure they have a regular employment contract and this concerns employers in Italy much more than foreign migrants.”
05 June 2024
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