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Italy: The Role Of International Migration In Italy

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International migration is a global phenomenon that is growing and extending everyday. It is inevitable as a side effect of our globalizing world and an indicator of development, including economic one. With the right policies countries can cope with this growing feature of our world. The international community has placed international migration as the top priority due to its concerning effects (UN-Department of economic and social affairs). Since Italy’s unification in the 19th our country has encountered many difficulties and one of the biggest challenges is migration. Since 2000 the rate of immigration in Italy has increased with a considerable number of immigrants from Albania, Morocco, Romania, China and the Philippines. “Italy can be considered as a country of emigration until the beginning of the 1970s, but from the mid-1990s, immigration flows often involved more and more foreign nationals (around 80% of the total).” (IDEA Working Papers, 2009 March 5). Migration is associated with overpopulation, depopulation and economic changes as well as …show more content…

But these laws didn’t manage to stop the flow of migration. The Italian government agreed to send naval patrol boats to Libya to support the Libyan coast guard in its fight against human smugglers according to Qayum (2017). United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (held in 2000) Italy has signed and ratified the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air (United Nations Treaty collections). In Italy the International Organization for Migration (IOM) from the UN Migration Agency is also present which helps manage of migrant flow, assists voluntary returns, and helps with family reunions by conducting DNA

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