Inglese - minors and right

Minors and new universal rights

Introduction

Citizenship: right to education, right to grow. We have been educated to the idea of citizenship as linked to stability, to residence, to jobs. Mobility is better, gives a better training, and fosters creative attitude, making differences more understandable. The values and principles linked to the citizenship and motherlands have been transformed. The right to education as a segment of the right to grow should be a fundamental step in our life. The right to grow asks for the right to improve skills, competencies, and abilities. We have to be coherent with the change, read it, understand it, and produce something that can be significant as long as possible.

Minors and migration flows: a challenge for civilization

Understanding the problem of foreign minors implies a sensitive perception of the differences and the implementation of the social and political rights systems. We should learn the act of listening and to change ourselves. Our aim is avoiding the isolation and differentiation of foreign minors and their distinction from Italian minors. It's a limit to go on considering the sense of identity only as a right deriving from birth. It should be accepted the idea of a society composed of people who have plural identities.

Multiple flows of immigrants came with the aim of answering to their needs. Minors lived both the typical disorientation of the evolutive age and the problems that immigration produces. The answer that institutions offer to the migrants is inadequate. The worst consequence was that the immigrant child became a second-class citizen. Those minors who are guilty of deviant behavior are considered different by public opinion, which feels increasing innate fears of foreignness and asks the social welfare for answers based on the principle of social security. Only 10% of the minors of the migration flows were helped or intercepted. They are easily protected by illegal networks and involved in acts of micro-crime, leading to the rejection of large parts of the Italian civil society. The risk is to have an increasing jailed population, for the most part composed of foreign minors.

Our intervention would therefore like to be a contribution to understanding: what are the motivations that lead many girls and boys to come to foreign lands though aware of the great threats to their physical safety. The right to education must be defended. The access to education should be looking at different directions simultaneously, observing the different sides of people who bring with them their origin and their social world. The most difficult challenge is to test and achieve a mutual relationship, necessarily able to cross borders and cultures.

Things have changed now. Given the globalized world, a feeling of distrust and fear prevails.