The Naples Stateless Legal Clinic has been working in partnership with the community to advocate for the local council to remove the extensive amount of rubbish dumped in the camp with no success to date. Members of the camp spoke with enthusiasm for the work of the staff and students of the stateless legal clinic, with one informing me that prior to the clinic commencing outreach in the camp, a number of members of the stateless community had been subjected to a legal scam in which a person claiming to be a lawyer had visited the camp under the guise of assisting them to obtain identity documents. After seeking large payments from members of the camp the ‘lawyer’ had disappeared and was unable to be located. Members of the camp were relieved to have the Naples Stateless Legal Clinic assisting them as they could be trusted and had formed meaningful and respectful relationships with members of the community. Key Italian publications and resources of note:  Statelessness Determination in Italy: UNHCR Italy  Italy: Statelessness Index  Union Italiana Apolidi  Unione Italiana Apolidi: the First stateless-led organisation in Italy: Armando Augello Cupi, European Network on Statelessness (2023)  Formazione clinic-legale II (Stateless legal Clinic, Naples, Rome)  UNHCR Recommendations on the Relevant Aspects of the Protection of Stateless Persons in Italy (2021)  Roma in Italy: Minority Rights Groups  Inside Italian Gypsy camps: The Guardian (2008)  ‘Why do the Italians hate us?’ Dan McDougall, The Guardian (2008)  Italian police clear Roma camp despite EU ruling requesting delay: Angela Giuffrida, The Guardian (2018)  Statelessness in Italy: Time to Fix a Broken System: Laura Bingham (2013) Open Society Justice Initiative 64

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