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  • Op-Eds

    Lampedusa As An Opportunity for Europe

    Marcello Saija(April 21, 2016)
    In Italy we must change our thinking about immigration and see it as an opportunity and not as a burden. For this vision to work, we need to begin social planning along the lines of the American model during the Great Migration—to create many carefully organized and operated Ellis Islands along the contested southern shores of Europe.
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    Can Lampedusa Become Europe’s Ellis Island?

    Marcello Saija(February 18, 2016)
    Ellis Island was an organizational apparatus that implemented a specific project of social engineering aimed at building a new America. Lampedusa is nothing like that. It is merely a place where the Italian government admits migrants without any ultimate aim. Can we change things?
  • Facts & Stories

    Salina at the United Nations: How Italy Made the Small Powerful

    Letizia Airos(October 08, 2014)
    In the late Nineties, then Italy’s U.N. Ambassador Paolo Fulci—a Sicilian who calls Salina home—united 32 small, insular states to block a Security Council reform that would have marginalized Italy. Influential members of the Italian-American community were mobilized in support of Italy’s national interests. Prominent among them were descendants of Aeolian immigrants... Interview