ITALIA:

I T A L Y : a place of Migration

IMM IGRAT ION

RomaniaAlbaniaMaroccoChinaUkrainePhilippinesMoldovaIndiaBangladesh Per 22% 10% 9,2% 5,2% 4,5% 3,3% 3% 2,9% 2,3% 2,2%

Where do the immigrants come from?

Until the late 80 there were more Italians who went abroad than foreigners who came to Italy.But over the last 20 years the foreign population is increased a lot: currently legal immigrants are 3.891.295, which is equivalent to 6,5 % of the national population

EMIGRATION The first four countries ranked by the number of Italian residents are:

Germany Switzerland France Argentine (688.000) (582.000) (378.000) (580.000)

ABRUZZO has a long history of emigration, in fact already since the last two decades of the nineteenth century it is recorded relatively high rates of emigration. In the first 15 years of the 900 the people who left this region were about 470.000, to achieve especially: United States, Venezuela, Brasil and France.

Recently Abruzzo is trasformed into a land of migration: in the course of the 80 years it begings to harbor the first foreign nationals, mostly North Africans.

Thanks to the discrete job opportunities and to the integration possibilities that the region is able to offer, today Abruzzo has become a pole of attraction for foreign nationals.

Immigrants are distributed in different proportions in the four provinces of the region:Characterized by better distribution of the foreign population and diversified presences, the province of Pescara is the closest to the idea of a multiethnic and multicultural society Continental origin of foreign nationals in Abruzzo:

AquilaTeramo Chieti Pescara(14.500)(13.500)(9500)(8500)

Europe Africa Asia America Albania RomaniaMorocco Ukraine 67% 34% 11% 8% 20% 13% 8% 7%

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