REPORT ON XENOPHOBIA, HATE CRIME AND RADICALISM IN ITALY, 2020-2022
Dr. Anna Castriotta
The present report covers a two-year period (2020-2022) in Italy assessing the level of xenophobia, hate crime and radicalism present in the country. The report is being written based upon the consultation of Italian government and agencies official documentations and archives, as well as relying on the information available from NGOs and charities that in the country, on various grounds, monitor, report and assess the level of xenophobia, radicalism and hate crime that targets the several minorities present on the territory. All the documentation consulted to produce the present report can be find in the attached bibliography at the end of this document.
The two-year period taken into consideration for the report concerns mainly the break out and spreading of the SARS COVID-19 virus pandemic affecting mankind globally in the period under examination. Undoubtedly, the break out of the pandemic registered some incidents in matter of hate crime and xenophobia especially against representatives of the Asian and Chinese communities in the country with several episodes of Sino-phobia and, more in general, diffidence and discrimination against immigrants as it will be better explained and illustrated in the dedicated section of the report.
