The other side of Italy : immigration in a changing country / Francesco Pittau, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pittau, Francisco, editor.

Series:

Immigration in the 21st Century: Political, Social and Economic Issues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Italy--Social conditions.

Immigrants.

Italy--Emigration and immigration.

Italy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, [New York] : Nova Publishers, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 f

Contents:

THE OTHER SIDE OF ITALY:IMMIGRATION IN ACHANGING COUNTRY; THE OTHER SIDE OF ITALY:IMMIGRATION IN ACHANGING COUNTRY; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Chapter 1:READING IMMIGRATION THROUGHSTATISTICAL DATA:INTRODUCTION TO METHODOLOGY; THE METHODOLOGY USED FOR INTERPRETINGSTATISTICAL DATA; FROM COLLECTION OF STATISTICAL DATA TO ACOMPARISON; FROM STATISTICAL DATA TO THE STRUCTURAL LINESOF MIGRATION; FROM STATISTICS TO POLITICAL CHOICES; CONCLUSION; Chapter 2:MAIN STATISTICS ON IMMIGRATION INITALY IN 2013; ABSTRACT

Chapter 3:HISTORY OF ITALIAN EMIGRATION ABROADABSTRACT; AN OVERVIEW OF THE ITALIAN EMIGRATION (1861-2014); 1861-1915: FROM THE UNIFICATION OF ITALY TOWORLD WAR I; 1922-1942: THE PERIOD BETWEEN THETWO WORLD WARS; FROM 1946 TO MID-'70S:THE GREAT POST-WAR MIGRATION; FROM 1975 TO TODAY: THE PERSISTENCE OFEMIGRATION IN A COUNTRY OF IMMIGRATION; THE ITALIANS' PRESENCE IN AMERICA; THE ITALIANS' PRESENCE IN EUROPE; FEATURES OF THE ITALIAN DIASPORA IN THE WORLD; Chapter 4:EVOLUTION OF IMMIGRATIONLAWS IN ITALY; ABSTRACT; BRIEF HISTORY OF THE EVOLUTION OF IMMIGRATIONFROM THE '70S TO TODAY

THE "FOSCHI LAW" (943/1986): THE FIRST LAW ONIMMIGRATION AFTER WORLD WAR 2THE "MARTELLI LAW" (39/1990): AN ATTEMPT FOR ANORGANIC APPROACH; THE SYSTEMATIC LAW ON IMMIGRATION:THE "TURCO-NAPOLITANO LAW"(CONSOLIDATION ACT 40/1998); LIMITATIONS INTRODUCED BY THE"BOSSI-FINI LAW" (189/2002); RIGIDITY OF THE "SECURITY PACKAGE" IN THE"MARONI LAW" (94/2009); Chapter 5:ROMANIANS IN ITALY: THE LARGESTDIASPORA COMMUNITY; ABSTRACT; WHEN ITALIANS EMIGRATED TO ROMANIA; THE HOSTILITY OF ITALIANS TOWARDS LARGEIMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES; 2007, THE ANNUS HORRIBILIS FOR THE ROMANIANCOMMUNITY IN ITALY

OPPORTUNITIES AND LIMITATIONS OF EUROPEAN UNIONREGULATIONSROMANIAN IMMIGRANTS IN THE ITALIAN SOCIETY; Chapter 6:EVOLUTION OF THE ALBANIAN COMMUNITYIN ITALY; ABSTRACT; THE ANCIENT ALBANIAN SETTLEMENT IN ITALY; ITALIAN COLONIALISM IN ALBANIA; ALBANIAN MIGRATION FLOWS TO ITALY:FROM EMERGENCY TO NORMALITY; THE CURRENT ALBANIAN PRESENCE; IMMIGRATION AND CRIME: THE ALBANIAN CASE; Chapter 7:THE CHINESE COMMUNITY IN ITALY; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; AMBIVALENT FEELINGS ABOUT CHINESE MIGRATION; Chapter 8:THE MOROCCAN COMMUNITY IN ITALY:A BRIDGE ON THE MEDITERRANEAN; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION

Chapter 9:IMMIGRATION, LANGUAGEAND SCHOOL IN ITALYABSTRACT; ITALY AND THE LANGUAGES OF OTHERS; ITALY AND MIGRANT LITERATURE; ITALIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM AND FOREIGN STUDENTS; Chapter 10:ITALY, A MULTICULTURAL ANDMULTI-RELIGIOUS COUNTRY; ABSTRACT; ITALY, A MULTICULTURAL COUNTRY CALLED TOBECOME INTERCULTURAL; ITALY, A NATION WITH MANY RELIGIONS CALLEDTO BECOME AN INTERRELIGIOUS COUNTRY; CONCLUSION: A NEED FOR MULTI-RELIGIOUSAND MULTICULTURAL HARMONY IN ITALY; REFERENCES; Chapter 11:MIGRANT ASSOCIATIONS IN ITALY; ABSTRACT; THE INTEGRATION PATH OF IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES

THE MOST RECENT NATIONAL CENSUS OFMIGRANT ASSOCIATIONS

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-63482-945-X