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@Shimbiris you two seem very smart and educated about topics like these, do you perhaps know if Italy was any help or at leats opened their doors to somali refugees during the civil war like England did ?
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@Shimbiris. Let me add: there had been two groups of Somalis in Italy:
a) People, who had been working with, or for the Italians in the colonial era, who then moved to Italy post independence.
b) Students, who settled post education. Many in both groups married into the locals, some even unrecognisable, for example a relative of mine, an MD married into Italy's last royal family till his passing a few years ago. On a European tour we have had right after our GCSEs, I observed many families settled in Padova, Turin, Rome, and even in Sicily, with many being Latinised many a moon ago. A/Aziz Dhegaweyne, a fine Somali sculptor, now residing in Minneapolis was one of them, who lived in Padova.
With respect to refugees, unlike UK, and Germany, which host the largest refugee population in Europe, Italy neither welcomes, nor provides decent services incl. housing, income support, or even grants to refugees, therefore is not quite a desirable destination for many.
Do keep in mind, there is a considerable economic and wealth disparity between Southern vs Northern Italy with the latter being more affluent, and with the former subjected to iniquitous practices.
