DI PERSONE SI TRATTA is a participatory activity meant to increase knowledge among young persons, raise awareness on social issues and ultimately mediate conflicts between citizenship and marginalized people.
It has been proposed for more than 10 years at secondary schools on the issues of prostitution, immigration crisis (asylum seeker migrants), religious and political radicalization, gender-based violence.
Notoriously, the presence of street prostitution in inhabited centres is the source of social tensions and conflicts, which in the specifics of migrant prostitution intertwine with the conflicts generated by the presence of immigrants. This conflict does not always emerge in an evident way, even if it can sometimes be detected by the information disseminated by local newspapers and television. One of the important factors at the origin of this type of conflict is constituted by a scarce and superficial knowledge of the phenomenon, of its forms of manifestation, of the highlights describing it, of the life conditions in which the people involved are found. We often tend to exaggerate the situation, on the one hand constructing a pietistic / victimistic image ("they are all slaves"), on the other hand, assuming a moralist / judging position ("they are people who want to earn money easily").


These elements suggest that the citizenship need to be more aware and increase their knowledge of the phenomenon of migrant prostitution. In this sense, particular attention should be given to the youth groups.
Hoped achievements, offering a time and place to answer to the following needs:
- The interest and curiosity of young persons to receive essential and meaningful information on a topic that arouses great interest and desire to "learn more", to get out of clichés and prejudices and to feel able to freely express the discomfort that one lives connected to the presence of the street prostitution;
- The need to relate to young persons with a model of active citizenship, which participates in the understanding of the social dynamics of the phenomena;
- The need for a mediation of the conflict between the social actors who participate, although with very diversified roles.
- The need of young persons not to feel passive spectators of a situation that induces insecurity and tension, sometimes prelude to closure, discrimination, violence and social marginalization;
- The need to consider the demand of sex work, transversely to the themes of sexuality and social relations, and the prevention of the demand as a subject of dialogue and discussion among young persons at school.