Sant’Anna School is partner of the 2021 Day of Remembrance and Reception in Lampedusa organizing the workshop “Rights beyond border”, focused on the protection of fundamental rights and on the legal condition of foreigners
The Dirpolis Institute of the Sant’Anna School participates in the events of the 2021 Day of Remembrance and Reception (Giornata della Memoria e dell’Accoglienza), which take place in Lampedusa from 30th September to 3rd October.
The Day is celebrated on the 3rd October of each year and it was established by the Italian Parliament in 2016 in order to preserve and renew the memory of those who lost their lives during the migration towards our country to escape from wars, persecutions and poverty.
Eight years ago, on the 3rd October, 368 migrants lost their lives in a shipwreck off the coast of Lampedusa. The survivors were 155, including 41 minors. Since then, October 3rd has been a symbolic date, not only to commemorate the victims of that shipwreck, but also to remember the thousands of people who drown in the Mediterranean Sea or are pushed back at the eastern borders of Europe, as the Comitato 3 Ottobre – organizer of the events to be held in Lampedusa – recalls on its website.
Many are the partners of the initiative, including the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Education, as well as various NGOs and associations. The goal of the events is to promote learning opportunities for young European generations, to foster a culture of welcome and solidarity in order to counter intolerance, racism and discrimination and promote the inclusion and social integration of migrants.
Prof. Emanuele Rossi, full professor of Constitutional Law at Sant’Anna School, is in Lampedusa for the organization of the workshop “Rights beyond border”, focused on the protection of fundamental rights and on the legal condition of foreigners, analysing also the challenges that Italy and all the European Union member Stated are facing in these years. As highlighted by Prof. Rossi, “the opportunity to carry out this training activity for teachers coming from European schools is a precious for the Sant’Anna School and its Dirpolis Institute, because it allows us to disseminate the results of our research, in the enhancement of constitutional principles. In particular, the title of the workshop takes up the title of a volume that I edited with Francesca Biondi Dal Monte and in which immigration law is analysed together with the right of asylum: a right whose guarantee is dramatically linked to events that see the island of Lampedusa as protagonist”.
The “Day of Remembrance and Welcoming” has been organized since 2014 and has involved over 800 students from 220 schools in 20 countries of the European Union. For the sixth edition of the Day, in 2019, the Comitato 3 Ottobre also launched the #siamosullastessabarca initiative. This year this initiative brings more than 60 schools from about 20 European Union countries to Lampedusa. As the Comitato points out, the boat is not only a symbol of migration but also a metaphor for the world in which, before any other distinction, we are all human beings.
