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The new migrations: Social and demographic characteristics and behavior of asylum seekers in Italy
Cinzia Conti, Fabio Massimo Rottino

Building: Main Venue Building
Room: room 5
Date: 2017-02-10 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Last modified: 2017-01-23

Abstract


The new inflows of non-EU foreigners are continuing to decline: in 2015 almost 248,000 new permits were issued, nearly 4% fewer than the previous year.  In the period the new permits issued for work decreased strongly both in absolute terms (-35.312) and relative terms (-62%), in 2014 they represented 23%, while in 2015 represent only 9% of the new permits issued. Instead the permits for asylum and other humanitarian reasons continued to grow both in absolute terms (+19,398) and relative terms: in 2015 represented 28.2% of new inflows, while in the 2014 they were 19.3% and in 2013 were 7.5%. In 2015 Nigeria, Pakistan and Gambia were the Countries of origin of most of the people with permits issued for asylum and other humanitarian reasons: they represented 43.8% of all permits issued for this reason. The relevance of These flows are Increasing, they have peculiar socio-demographic characteristics but we still do not know enough about Their integration routes. The paper AIMS to focus on this sub-population, studying trough the record linkage among administrative data Their characteristics and behaviors in Italy, with particular regard for territorial mobility, family and work.


Keywords


asylum seekers; migrations, administrative data