TEFI TCA – id. code 3919 Final report INDEX INTRODUCTION I ...

TEFI TCA – id. code 3919educational courses for immigrant children, often do not offer themequal opportunities for success in employment integration. Thiscontributes to demotivate the immigrants on the importance of theeducational system triggering a negative reaction.Finding a place to live is a central problem of the condition of theimmigrant. Direct and indirect forms of discrimination are also foundin this sector. In countries like Italy, in which the Welfare systempays little attention to the problem and private initiatives and offersare more common than public offers of accommodation, the finding ofsuitable accommodation by the immigrants is generally through theprivate market. In this ambit the immigrants are often treatedunfairly and unjustly; inexistent contracts or not registered ones,imposition of illegal clauses, the down-payment of a high number ofmonths in advance as security to which, in most cases, must beadded a higher cost of rent than the average. It is for this series ofreasons that the immigrants are often obliged to live together tomeet the high cost of renting, leading to an incredible number livingtogether in one apartment.Even in countries that are better equipped from the housing policypoint of view, such as France, there are still numerous problemsreported with regard to immigrant housing. The preparation of ad hocpolicies has not avoided the concentration and segregation in areas ofthe immigrants which increases their condition of isolation andalienation.C) Legal factors. Another factor that may cause discrimination is thatof the regulations which directly or indirectly regard the immigrants.Institutional regulation politics, in fact, may discriminate in creatingmechanisms that exclude the immigrant population from exercisingFinal report 175