Italian%20Immigration%20Policy

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Italian Immigration Policy
Jonathan Chaloff CeSPI Rome

• Migrações Transatlânticas e Transeuropeias
• ISCTE
• 18 3 2005

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The Italian Case

• From emigration to immigration
• Evolution of policy
• Governance vs. Emergency
• Critical issues
• Elements for comparison

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From emigration to immigration

• Policy during emigration
• Development and demography
• Some numbers
• Does the past mean anything for the present?

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Evolution of Policy

• Landmark years 1986, 1990, 1998, 2002
• Labour migration
• Continuous formal and informal
• Asylum policy
• No framework law
• Citizenship law
• 1992 revision

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The 3 Pillars of Italian Immigration Policy

• Fight against undocumented migration
• Bilateral agreements
• Regulated labour migration
• The quota system
• Integration of legally resident foreigners
• Nice words, few facts

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Emergency
Glossario del giornalista

• 1 immigrato allarme immigrazione
• 2 immigrati emergenza immigrazione
• 3 immigrati invasione di immigrati

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Governance vs. Emergency

• Is the emergency over?
• Reality overtakes fantasy regularisations
• National vs. local policy during devolution
• Who bears the burden?

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Critical issues

• Women and domestic service
• The Ukrainization of eldercare
• Training, skills upgrades and recognition of
  qualifications
• Competition for high-status jobs?
• Guest workers in a changing labour market
• Contradiction between labour law and immigration
  law

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Elements for Comparison

• Is there a Southern Mediterranean migration
  paradigm?
• Aging population and domestic care workers
• Informal society and formal regulations
• Untested capacity for social inclusion