“CONTEMPORARY IMMIGRATION IN ITALY –CURRENT TRENDS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS” CARITAS ROME PRESENTS TO OTHER COUNTRIES BOOK ON ITALY’S MIGRATION SITUATION

Roma (Fides Service) – Caritas Roma, sponsored by CNEL and International Organisation for Migrants IOM, will present “Contemporary Immigration in Italy - Current trends and future prospects”, on Wednesday 1 October 2003, at the CNEL Library, Via David Lubin 2. The volume is the work of a “Dossier Caritas” committee involving 11 countries and it is a presentation to other countries of the migratory situation in Italy. Speakers at the press conference will include Prof. Giorgio Alessandrini (Deputy President of the National office for co-ordination of policies of social integration of foreign workers at CNEL); Dr Peter Schatzer (new IOM head in Rome); Mgr Michael Blume (Under Secretary Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples); Sabatino Marchione (Director central policies immigration and asylum Ministry of the Interior). (S.L.) (Fides Service 30/9/2003 – lines 11; words 137)