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African emigrants to Italy include Italian citizens and residents originally from Africa. Immigrants from Africa officially residing in Italy in 2015 numbered about 1,000,000 residents. [ 1 ] Afro-Italians ( Afroitaliani ) are Italians born in Africa but raised in Italy, Italian citizens of African descent, or of mixed African and Italian roots.
In 2021, there are 119,435 immigrants from Nigeria in Italy. In 2014 in Italy there are 71,158 regular immigrants from Nigeria, while In 2006 there were 37,733. The three cities with most number of Nigerians are: Turin, Rome and Padua. [2]
In 2021, around 6,260,000 people residing in Italy have an immigration background (around the 10.6% of the total Italian population). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Starting from the early 1980s, until then a linguistically and culturally homogeneous society, Italy began to attract substantial flows of foreign immigrants.
In the period following the 1973 oil crisis, immigration controls in European states were tightened. The effect of this was not to reduce migration from North Africa but rather to encourage permanent settlement of previously temporary migrants and associated family migration.
A huge number of migrants have reached Italy by sea from North Africa, causing problems for Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's right-wing government after it promised tighter controls. Since Jan. 1 ...
Unlike Mare Nostrum, Operation Triton focused on border protection rather than search and rescue, and operated closer to the Italian coast. [5] The termination of Mare Nostrum has been criticized as a cause of the increased death rate among migrants to Europe in the Mediterranean, which increased tenfold between 2014 and 2015. [ 9 ]
On 27 March 2009, at least one boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy capsized. The boat is believed to have been carrying 250 migrants from Egypt , Tunisia , Palestine and Nigeria . A rescue attempt involving the Italian and Libyan navies rescued 21 survivors from the boat and retrieved 21 bodies.
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