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    Italian town that models migrant integration feels national election's bite

    Mar 02, 2018 6 minutes
    Shoppers walk the Saturday market earlier this month in Schio, Italy. Immigrants make up 12 percent of Schio’s population of 40,000. For decades they have enjoyed a high level of integration in the town. But Italy’s 2018 parliamentary election, and the ascendant, anti-immigrant Northern League, which calls the Schio region home, is threatening that.

    Mr. Sindy doesn't take his eyes off the sewing machine he is operating, as news plays on his smartphone of the Turkish bombing of the Kurdish-controlled Syrian city of Afrin, close to where he has family. He has grown accustomed to bad news coming from the Kurdish territories.

    To protect his family in the Middle East, Sindy doesn’t want to use his first name. He left his hometown of Zakho in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2006, crossed the Mediterranean, and, after traveling around Europe, settled in Schio, a town of 40,000 in northeast Italy. He has lived here for 10 years now, one of the immigrants from all over the world who make up 12 percent of Schio's population.

    Today, he has a job in this sewing workshop, Atelier Nuele, and a comfortable life.

    “When I came here I was told I would be treated as a member of a family. Schio reminds me of my

    Integration among intoleranceMaking migrants visible

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