SESTO SAN GIOVANNI, Italy — For 70 years, Sesto San Giovanni, on the outskirts of Milan, was a bastion of the left as it drew thousands of migrants from Italy’s poorer south to work in its factories. The most recent migrants who have arrived are not from Italy’s south, but other nations. Today, if there is one place in Italy where the country’s economic and migrant crises collide, it is in Sesto. And if there is one place to take the measure of the right’s creeping anti-immigrant influence in politics and society, Sesto is that place, too. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyBut for nine months now, immigrants in Sesto — about 19 percent of the city’s 81,000 residents — have been getting a taste already of life under right-wing rule.

Source: New York Times April 29, 2018 04:52 UTC