© Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty ImagesA boat carrying Tunisian migrants enters the port of Lampedusa, Sicily, on April 12, 2011. Sicily is now dealing with an influx of Syrian migrants, as they must pass through Italy on their way to central European countries as they flee violence at home.
Located on the Mediterranean Sea the island of Sicily has become a destination for Syrians fleeing the war-torn nation by boat.
Refugees on their way to central European countries, such as Germany, Austria, or Switzerland, have to pass through Italy first. The number of Syrian refugees has increased especially in the Syracuse Province of Sicily this year.
It presents a challenge for Syracuse, which is relatively unprepared, but it's a challenge that the medical director at the Health Association of Syracuse Province, Anselmo Madeddu, is welcoming.
Madeddu said he has come across many "touching experiences" in his work as a physician with the immigrants. They have given "all of us a lesson in civility," he said in an interview with
Epoch Times.
The situation is different from previous years and not only in the numbers. Before immigrants were predominantly males in search of a job, but now they are full families with women and children, and even with pregnant women. Moreover, their social status is generally high - including engineers, doctors, and lawyers - according to Madeddu.
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