Immigrant prisoners in Italy. Cultural mediation to reduce social isolation and increase migrant prisoner well-being?
Italy
Law
Mediation
Migration
Prisoners
Well-being
Journal
International journal of prisoner health
ISSN: 1744-9219
Titre abrégé: Int J Prison Health
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101255940
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
10 Aug 2022
10 Aug 2022
Historique:
entrez:
8
8
2022
pubmed:
9
8
2022
medline:
11
8
2022
Statut:
aheadofprint
Résumé
This study aims to highlight how easy it is for immigrants to break Italian law because of the country's inadequate cultural and linguistic mediation service. Insufficiencies in this service also have a negative impact on both the psychological and physical health of migrant prisoners. Furthermore, Italian is used in legal disputes and prison, and reference is made to Italian culture, preventing migrants from understanding their position regarding the law. This report concerns the psychological discomfort of migrant incarcerated individuals within Italian prisons due to national laws in force. Consideration is also given to the negative impact on the physical health of incarcerated migrants. Best practice should include adequate space for linguistic and cultural mediation in reception centres and prisons. It is considered suitable to combat social exclusion, even in prison. The report is not research on prisoners, but it focuses on making visible the condition of migrant individuals incarcerated in Italy. Enforced isolation does not allow immigrants to become a community resource but has negative repercussions in terms of financial, social and well-being costs. This paper is one of few in limited, national or otherwise scientific output, to contribute to migrant inmate visibility in Italy. Taking action for the well-being of migrant prisoners will not only have a positive impact on a social level but should also help reintegrate these individuals after serving their sentence.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35938934
doi: 10.1108/IJPH-01-2022-0004
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Informations de copyright
© Emerald Publishing Limited.
Références
Abeya, S.G., Afework, M.F. and Yalew, A.W. (2012), “Intimate partner violence against women in west Ethiopia: a qualitative study on attitudes, woman’s response, and suggested measures as perceived by community members”, Reproductive Health, Vol. 9 No. 1, p. 14.
Adorno, T.W., Frenkel-Brunswik, E., Levinson, D. and Sanford, N. (1950), The Authoritarian Personality, Harper & Brothers, New York, NY.
Ali, A.A., Yassin, K. and Omer, R. (2014), “Domestic violence against women in Eastern Sudan”, BMC Public Health, Vol. 14 No. 1, pp. 1-5.
Allman, D. (2013), “The sociology of social inclusion”, SAGE Open, Vol. 3 No. 1, pp. 1-16, doi: 10.1177/2158244012471957.
Allport, G.W. (1954), The Nature of Prejudice, Addison-Wesley, Boston.
Antigone (2021), “La mediazione linguistica e culturale. Il carcere mondo di culture”, available at: www.rapportoantigone.it/diciassettesimo-rapporto-sulle-condizioni-di-detenzione/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/32.-ANTIGONE_XVIIrapporto_MediazioneLinguistica.pdf
Anttiroiko, A.V. and de Jong, M. (2020), “Conceptualizing exclusion and inclusion”, The Inclusive City, Palgrave Pivot, Cham, doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-61365-5_3.
Basile, F. (2013), “Il reato di ‘pratiche di mutilazione degli organi genitali femminili’ alla prova della giurisprudenza: un commento alla prima (e finora unica) applicazione giurisprudenziale dell’art. 583 bis C.P. Online”, Diritto penale contemporaneo, available at: www.penalecontemporaneo.it/upload/1374561488BASILE%202013a.pdf (accessed 26 January 2021).
Brelje, A.B. and Pinals, D.A. (2021), “Provision of health care for prisoners during the COVID-19 pandemic: an ethical analysis of challenges and summary of select best practices”, International Journal of Prisoner Health, Vol. 17 No. 3, pp. 194-205, doi: 10.1108/IJPH-07-2020-0042.
Broussard, C.A. and Ware, J.M. (2021), “BREAKS into prison”, Louisiana Bar Journal, Vol. 69 No. 3, pp. 217-218, available at: www.lsba.org/documents/publications/BarJournal/Feature2-Broussard-Journal-Oct-Nov-2021.pdf
Caputo, D. and Di Mase, D. (2013), “Lo straniero in carcere”, ISSP, 2, available at: www.giustizia.it/giustizia/it/mg_1_12_1.page?facetNode_1=0_2&facetNode_2=0_2_10&contentId=SPS957019&previsiousPage=mg_1_12#ra4
Cardillo, C.C. (1997), “Violence against Chinese women: defining the cultural role”, Women’s Rights Law Reporter, Vol. 19, p. 85.
Cecchi, S. (2011), “The criminalization of immigration in Italy: extent of the phenomenon and possible interpretations”, Italian Sociological Review, Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 34-42.
Cesareo, V. and Blangiardo, G.C. (Eds) (2009), Indici di Integrazione, FrancoAngeli, Milano.
Chiu, M.E. (2006), “Culture as justification, not excuse”, American Criminal Law Review, Vol. 43, p. 1317.
Colombo, A. (2013), “Foreigners and immigrants in Italy’s penal and administrative detention systems”, European Journal of Criminology, Vol. 10 No. 6, pp. 746-759.
Davolo, A. and Mancini, T. (2017), L’intervento Psicologico Con i Migranti, Il Mulino, Bologna.
Di Rosa, G. (2018), “Le solitudini in carcere. Il detenuto malato e il detenuto straniero: dialogo a tre voci”, Diritto Penale Contemporaneo, available at: https://archiviodpc.dirittopenaleuomo.org/upload/9794-dirosa2018a.pdf (accessed 10 February 2021).
Dipartimento per la Giustizia minorile e di comunità (2022), “Minorenni e giovani adulti in carico ai servizi minorili analisi statistica dei dati”, available at: www.giustizia.it/cmsresources/cms/documents/Analisi_Servizi_minorili_15.02.2022.pdf
Durcan, G. and Cees Zwemstra, J. (2014), “Mental health in prison”, WHO (Ed.), Prisons and Health, WHO, Geneva, pp. 84-98.
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. (ECDC) (2017), Systematic Review on Active Case Finding of Communicable Diseases in Prison Settings Prevention and Control of Communicable Diseases in Prison Settings, ECDC, Stockholm.
Fraser, A. (2014), “Staff health and well-being in prisons: leadership and training”, WHO (Ed.), Prisons and Health, WHO, Geneva, pp. 185-189.
Frick, M.L. (2014), “The cultural defense and women’s human rights: an inquiry into the rationales for unveiling Justitia’s eyes to ‘culture”, Philosophy & Social Criticism, Vol. 40 No. 6, pp. 555-576.
Gao, F. (2006), “Language is culture – on intercultural communication”, Journal of Language and Linguistics, Vol. 5 No. 1, pp. 58-67.
Gibb, R. and Good, A. (2014), “Interpretation, translation and intercultural communication in refugee status determination procedures in the UK and France”, Language and Intercultural Communication, Vol. 14 No. 3, pp. 385-399.
Henderson, M. and Pickup, A. (2012), “Best practice guide to asylum and human rights appeals”, available at: www.ein.org.uk/bpg/contents (accessed 12 November 2020).
Hughes, S., Trimble, T.J. and O’Rourke, A. (2021), “The experiences of young offenders (aged 18–21) on protection in an Irish prison: using an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA)”, Journal of Criminal Psychology, Vol. 11 No. 2, pp. 85-104, doi: 10.1108/JCP-04-2020-0015.
Institutional Working party on intercultural mediation (IWIM) (2009), Linee di Indirizzo per il Riconoscimento Della Figura Professionale Del Mediatore Interculturale, Italian Ministry of the Interior, Rome.
Iversen, V.C., Mangerud, W.L., Tetlie Eik-Nes, T. and Kjelsberg, E. (2013), “Communication problems and language barriers between foreign prisoners and prison officers”, Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Vol. 11 No. 1, pp. 65-77.
Kaufer, L., Noll, D.E. and Mayer, J. (2015), “Prisoner facilitated mediation: bringing peace to prisons and communities”, Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution, , Vol. 16, pp. 187-219.
Kaufert, J.M. (1999), “Cultural mediation in cancer diagnosis and end of life decision‐making: the experience of aboriginal patients in Canada”, Anthropology & Medicine, Vol. 6 No. 3, pp. 405-421.
Kim, J.Y. and Sung, K. (2000), “Conjugal violence in Korean American families: a residue of cultural tradition”, Journal of Family Violence, Vol. 15 No. 4, pp. 331-345.
Kishindo, P. (2001), “Language and the law in Malawi: a case for the use of indigenous languages in the legal system”, Language Matters, Vol. 32 No. 1, pp. 1-27.
Kohler, M. (2016), “Interpreting as intercultural mediation: a critical moment in an overseas midwife training programme”, Perspectives, Vol. 24 No. 3, pp. 431-443.
Langastro, A. and Lisciandro, M. (2019), “Migranti: ecco le cifre dell’accoglienza in italia, Ilsole24ore”, available at: www.ilsole24ore.com/art/migranti-ecco-cifre-dell-accoglienza-italia-AFKOSRC
Lee, M.Y. and Lawy, P.F.M. (2001), “Perceptions of sexual violence against women in Asian American communities”, Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work, Vol. 10 No. 2, pp. 3-25.
Leye, E., Deblonde, J., García-Añon, J., Johnsdotter, S., Kwateng-Kluvitse, A., Weil-Curiel, L. and Temmerman, M. (2007), “An analysis of the implementation of laws with regard to female genital mutilation in Europe”, Crime, Law and Social Change, Vol. 47 No. 1, pp. 1-31.
Lubbe, H.J. (2009), “The right to language in court: a language right or a communication right?”, available at: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/ (accessed 30 November 2020).
Luzi, A.M., Pasqualino, G.M., Pugliese, L., Schwarz, M. and Suligo, B. (Eds) (2013), “L’accesso alle cure della persona straniera: indicazioni operative”, available at: www.salute.gov.it/imgs/C_17_opuscoliPoster_199_allegato.pdf
Mahan, L.N. and Mahuna, J.M. (2017), “Bridging the divide: cross-cultural mediation”, International Research and Review: Journal of Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars, Vol. 7 No. 1, pp. 11-22.
Merzagora, I. (2017), Lo Straniero a Giudizio, Tra Psicopatologia e Diritto, Milano, Cortina.
Mestre i Mestre, R.M. and Johnsdotter, S. (2019), “Court cases, cultural expertise, and ‘female genital mutilation’ in Europe”, Studies in Law Politics and Society, Vol. 78, pp. 95-113.
Ministero della Giustizia Dipartimento dell’Amministrazione Penitenziaria (2018), “Concorso pubblico, per esami, a quindici posti a tempo indeterminato per il profilo professionale di funzionario mediatore culturale”, III area funzionale, fascia retributiva F1, available at: www.gazzettaufficiale.it/eli/id/2018/02/09/18E01219/s4
Ministero della Giustizia (2022), “Detenuti presenti – aggiornamento al 31 gennaio 2022”, available at: www.giustizia.it/giustizia/it/mg_1_14_1.page?facetNode_1=0_2&contentId=SST365654&previsiousPage=mg_1_14
Paoletti, E. (2014), “The Arab spring and the Italian response to migration in 2011”, Comparative Migration Studies, Vol. 2 No. 2, pp. 127-150.
Patler, C., Saadi, A., De Trinidad Young, M.E. and Franco, K. (2021), “Release from US immigration detention may improve physical and psychological stress and health: results from a two-wave panel study in California”, SSM – Mental Health, Vol. 1, p. 100035, doi: 10.1016/j.ssmmh.2021.100035.
Paz, M. (2014), “The tower of babel: human rights and the paradox of language”, European Journal of International Law, Vol. 25 No. 2, pp. 473-496.
Pedersen, J. (2010), “When do you go for benevolent intervention? How subtitlers determine the need for cultural mediation”, Approaches to Translation Studies, Vol. 33, pp. 67-108.
Radicioni, M. and Ruiz Rosendo, L. (2022), “Learning dynamics between cultural mediators in humanitarian healthcare: a case study”, The Journal of Specialised Translation, Vol. 37, pp. 139-159.
Rimonte, N. (1991), “A question of culture: cultural approval of violence against women in the Pacific-Asian community and the cultural defense”, Stanford Law Review, Vol. 43 No. 6, pp. 1311-1326.
Russo, M.C. (2014), “Al di là delle denominazioni: limiti e orizzonti di ruoli e funzioni del mediatore linguistico-culturale”, Languages Cultures Mediation (LCM Journal), Vol. 1 Nos 1/2, pp. 1-2, doi: 10.7358/lcm-2014-0102-russ.
Sacchi, S. (2018), “The Italian welfare state in the crisis: learning to adjust?”, South European Society and Politics, Vol. 23 No. 1, pp. 29-46, doi: 10.1080/13608746.2018.1433478.
Shingler, J. and Sonnenberg, S.J. (2018), “Needs A. Risk assessment interviews: exploring the perspectives of psychologists and indeterminate sentenced prisoners in the United Kingdom”, International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 62 No. 10, pp. 3201-3224, doi: 10.1177/0306624X17739211.
Snow, P.C. and Powell, M.B. (2004), “Interviewing juvenile offenders: the importance of oral language competence”, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, Vol. 16 No. 2, pp. 220-225.
Sorenson, S.B. (2006), “Judgments about intimate partner violence: a statewide survey about immigrants”, Public Health Reports, Vol. 121 No. 4, pp. 445-452.
Tajfel, H. (1972), “Social categorization”, in Moscovici, S. (Ed.) Introduction a la Psychologie Sociale, Larousse, Paris, pp. 272-302.
Tajfel, H. (1981), Human Groups and Social Categories: Studies in Social Psychology, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Tajfel, H. and Turner, J.C. (1979), “An integrative theory of intergroup conflict”, Austin, W.G. and Worchel, S. (Eds), The Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations, Brooks/Cole, Monterey, CA, pp. 33-47.
Turner, J.C. and Oakes, P.J. (1986), “The significance of the social identity concept for social psychology with reference to individualism, interactionism and social influence”, British Journal of Social Psychology, Vol. 25 No. 3, pp. 237-252.
Turner, J.C., Hogg, M.A., Oakes, P.J., Reicher, S.D. and Wetherell, M.S. (1987), Rediscovering the Social Group: A Self-Categorization Theory, Blackwell, Oxford.
United Nations General Assembly (1948), Universal Declaration of Human Rights, available at: www.un.org
Urbanek, A. (2021), “Reactions of prison staff to the needs of culturally different convicts”, Social Sciences, Vol. 10 No. 1, p. 1, doi: 10.3390/socsci10010001.
Wang, C. (2017), “Interpreters = cultural mediators?”, TranslatoLogica: A Journal of Translation, Language, and Literature, Vol. 1, pp. 93-114.
WHO Regional Office for Europe (2019), “Case study 4.Intercultural mediation in health care in the Emilia-Romagna region”, Italy, available at: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
World Health Organization (1946), “Constitution of the world health organization”, available at: https://apps.who.int/gb/gov/assets/constitution-en.pdf
World Health Organization (2019), “Health Evidence Network Synthesis Report No 64”, available at: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK550145/pdf/Bookshelf_NBK550145.pdf
XXIX Rapporto Immigrazione Caritas E Migrantes (2020), “Conoscere per comprendere”, available at: www.migrantes.it/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2020/10/RICM_2020_DEF.pdf