The Other Side of Italy: Immigration in a Changing Country
Francesco Pittau (Editor)
Centro Studi e Ricerche IDOS, Roma, Italy
Series: Immigration in the 21st Century: Political, Social and Economic Issues
BISAC: SOC007000
Details
In Italy, the rate of foreign immigration is among one of the major cultural shifts after World War II. Increased immigration rates account not only for people fleeing from countries during the war or times of unstable political situations (170,000 in 2014), but also for people relocating for work or family-related reasons. The immigrants were fewer than 150,000 in 1970, but currently count for 5 million (8% of the total population, not including those who have become Italian citizens), and are more numerous than Italian citizens residing abroad (4.5 million). This book proposes to introduce foreign readers to this phenomenon, which is in some respects problematic.
Translation of texts written for Italian readers was avoided and the authors made choices to include original themes that could be interesting to readers outside Italy. The book’s conclusions were entrusted to three immigrants: an Albanian sociologist, an Eritrean researcher and an Algerian novelist. According to the forecasts of demographers, the future Italy will be a country of large-scale immigrations, accounting for more than 10 million people by mid-century. Will Italy only be a country with many immigrants or a country with an adequate migration policy? Although society is still divided on the subject of newcomers, this book hopes to solve this issue in a positive manner and stimulate greater interest abroad.
(Imprint: Nova)
Preface
Chapter 1
Reading Immigration through Statistical Data: Introduction to Methodology
(Franco Pittau, IDOS Study and Research Center, Roma, Italy)
Chapter 2
Main Statistics on Immigration in Italy in 2013
(Franco Pittau, IDOS Study and Research Center, Roma, Italy)
Chapter 3
History of Italian Emigration Abroad
(Franco Pittau, IDOS Study and Research Center, Roma, Italy)
Chapter 4
Evolution of Immigration Laws in Italy
(Ugo Melchionda, IDOS Study and Researcher Center, Roma, Italy)
Chapter 5
Romanians in Italy: the Largest Diaspora Community
(Antonio Ricci, IDOS Study and Researcher Center, Roma, Italy)
Chapter 6
Evolution of the Albanian Community in Italy
(Ginevra Demaio and Franco Pittau, IDOS Study and Researcher Center, Roma, Italy)
Chapter 7
The Chinese Community in Italy
(Raniero Cramerotti and Franco Pittau, with the collaboration of Zsuzsanna Pásztor, IDOS Study and Researcher Center, Roma, Italy)
Chapter 8
The Moroccan Community in Italy: A Bridge on the Mediterranean
(Franco Pittau and Antonio Ricci, IDOS Study and Researcher Center, Roma, Italy)
Chapter 9
Immigration, Language and School in Italy
(Ginevra Demaio, IDOS Study and Researcher Center, Roma, Italy)
Chapter 10
Italy, a Multicultural and Multi-religious Country
(Franco Pittau, IDOS Study and Researcher Center, Roma, Italy, with the collaboration of Claudio Paravati, Confronti)
Chapter 11
Migrant Associations in Italy
(Luca Di Sciullo, IDOS Study and Researcher Center, Roma, Italy)
Chapter 12
Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Italy during the Economic Crisis
(Maria Paola Nanni, IDOS Study and Researcher Center, Roma, Italy)
Chapter 13
The Economic Contribution of Migrants: Work and Impact on the Public Budget
(Ugo Melchionda, IDOS Study and Researcher Center, Roma, Italy)
Chapter 14
The Paths of Integration and Citizenship
(Luca Di Sciullo and Franco Pittau, IDOS Study and Researcher Center, Roma, Italy)
Chapter 15
Conclusion: Migration and Coexistence: The Perspectives in Italy
(Franco Pittau, IDOS Study and Research Center, Roma, Italy)
Index
This book is written in simple style but in highly scientific style and therefore can be disseminated among researchers and among non professional people interested at migration.
