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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.
The distribution of immigrants is largely uneven in Italy: 83% of immigrants live in the northern and central parts of the country (the most economically developed areas), while only 17% live in the southern half of the peninsula. [79] Net migration rate 3.21 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2021 est.) Country comparison to the world: 34th
Rescued male migrants are brought to southern Italian ports, 28 June 2015. Immigration to Europe has a long history, but increased substantially after World War II. Western European countries, especially, saw high growth in immigration post 1945, and many European nations today (particularly those of the EU-15) have sizeable immigrant populations, both of European and non-European origin.
The study presents several arguments against the theme of “immigration into the social systems” and the “lack of usefulness of immigrants for the German economy”: The employment rate of the immigrant population in Germany is currently 70% - this is more than in most other comparable EU countries and the highest value achieved to date.
[4] [5] The migration of people from Northern Italy to Sicily continued until the end of the 13th century. [6] In the same period people from Northern Italy also emigrated to Basilicata. [7] It is believed that the population of Northern Italy who immigrated to Sicily during these centuries was altogether about 200,000 people. [8]
The distribution of foreign born population is largely uneven in Italy: 80% of immigrants live in the northern and central parts of the country (the most economically developed areas), while only 20% live in the southern half of the peninsula. In 2008, net immigration to Italy was 47,000. [citation needed]
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It was not until after World War II that large numbers of immigrants from southern Italy emigrated to France, usually settling in industrialized areas of France such as Lorraine, Paris and Lyon. [209] Today, it is estimated that as many as 5,000,000 French nationals have Italian ancestry going as far back as three generations. [209]