Rethinking Education and Mediation for Incarcerated Immigrants in Italy.

Abstract

In their case study on the treatment of immigrants in Italian prisons, a team of Italian academics and practitioners—Maria Garro, Gioacchino Lavanco, Massimiliano Schirinzi, and Michelangelo Capitano—identify another type of silencing, that of voices in transit, who become targets of the carceral system in Italy. Their chapter, “Immigrant Inmates: Laws and Cultural Mediation to Reduce Social Isolation,” addresses the particular challenges faced by incarcerated people who do not hold citizenship rights within their country of incarceration. The themes explored in their chapter are ones that stretch across many borders and should remind us all that, within incarcerated populations, the experiences of migrant voices continue to be some of the most marginalized of an already marginalized population.