Italian Asylum Reception System and Health Challenges: The Apulian Case
Italian Asylum Reception System and Health Challenges: The Apulian Case

Author(s): Michela C. Pellicani, Gül Ince-Beqo
Subject(s): Health and medicine and law, Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Italian; Asylum; Reception System; Health Challenges; Apulian Case;
Summary/Abstract: During 2019, in a pre-Pandemic situation, an estimated 11.0 million people were newly displaced and by the end of 2019, the number of people forcibly displaced due to war, conflict, persecution, human rights violations and events seriously disturbing public order had grown to 79.5 million, the highest number on record according to available data. The number of displaced people was nearly double the 2010 number of 41 million and increased from the 2018 number of 70.8 million. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Burkina Faso, the Syrian Arab Republic (Syria), the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Venezuela) and Yemen represent just a few of the many hotspots in 2019 driving people to seek refuge and safety within their country or flee abroad to seek protection. The proportion of the world’s population who were displaced continued to rise. One per cent of the world’s population in 2019 – or 1 in 97 people – was forcibly displaced. This compares with 1:159 in 2010 and 1:174 in 2005 as the increase in the world’s forcibly displaced population continued to outpace global population growth.

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