Immigration in Italy: Between Economic Acceptance and Political Rejection

Ambrosini, Maurizio

doi:10.1007/s12134-011-0231-3

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“…The viewpoint of migrants as unwelcomed and undesirable has been mitigated by awareness of migrants as needed and wanted by the Italian labor market. As perfectly elucidated by Ambrosini (2013), several factors, such as the demographic process of population aging and the vast and increasing demand of cheap labor force, underlie a gap between the restrictive rules for entry and residence in Italy and the process of social acceptance of migrants at both the societal and the institutional level. The need for foreign female caretakers of Italian elderly and children (badanti) and the structural demand for male laborers in the agricultural and catering sectors lead people to tolerate the presence of migrants in Italian society and even to integrate them into their families.…”

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Immigration Policies in Italy: Their Impact on the Lives of First-Generation Moroccan and Egyptian Migrants

Paparusso

Fokkema

Ambrosetti

2016

Int. Migration & Integration

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This paper analyzes the impact of Italian immigration policies on migrants' lives. Policies and changes in policies can affect migrants' capabilities to stabilize themselves in the host country, in terms of legal residence and secure labor conditions, as well as their chances of becoming part of the host society. We argue that, together with border controls, these are crucial ways through which immigration policies may have the postulated effects on the lives of migrants. We use data from 59 in-depth interviews conducted with first-generation Moroccan and Egyptian migrants living in two Italian cities, Turin and Rome, in the period 2011-2013. The results show that Italian immigration policies do not successfully control migration inflow, but effectively hinder the stability of migrants' legal status and the status transition from temporary residence to permanent residence and subsequent Italian citizenship. In this way, Italian immigration policies largely affect migrants' capabilities to be part of the host country; this gets in the way of integration, social cohesion and future migration projects.KEY WORDS -policy effectiveness, migrant status, qualitative research 2

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“…A new amnesty was introduced in 2009: contrary to past regularizations, it applied to domestic care workers only. The reason behind this amnesty was that, despite the economic crisis, the domestic workers sector continued to grow and therefore the demand for foreign workforce too (Ambrosini 2013 a house in the country of origin.…”

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Immigration Policies in Italy: Their Impact on the Lives of First-Generation Moroccan and Egyptian Migrants

Paparusso

Fokkema

Ambrosetti

2016

Int. Migration & Integration

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“…Present study, was conducted in an area where fewer inhabitants than the country average has a university degree, especially males [24]; therefore, it occurs competitions in job opportunities between the local population and the newly arrivals. This often is related to the heterogeneous group of immigrants who are over-represented having manual skills [10].…”

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“…A functioning migration process promotes health among the new arrivals and facilitate the establishment on the labour market [9]. Paying attention to determinants of health among newly arrived allows that skills to a greater extent can be exploited [6] and matched with the needs of the region's labour market [10]. Social constructions (SC) are not static, but dynamic processes that are reproduced, by the inhabitants in the society [11].…”

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Officials Reflections about Health Promoting Factors among Newly Arrivals - An Introductory Analysis

Carlerby¹,

Persson²

2017

Int J Community Fam Med

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Background: Resulting from conflicts, millions of peoples have been forced to leave their countries of origin. In Sweden, the Employment Agency is responsible for making decisions of immigrants' residence in municipalities and in co-operation with these allow the immigrants' establishment in the society. Preventive interventions among migrants and refugees, and health interventions in heterogeneous populations show that increased participation in society has positive imprints on health development. A new country includes getting acquaintance with non-familiar cultures. For example, other expectations on rules of gender, sickness, and illness. Recent years the low density populated areas in northern Sweden have received a high number of refugees in comparison with their population size. The purpose of this study was to explore how officials the Employment Agency and a selection of municipalities reflect over and define health promoting factors in their meetings with newly arrived. Methods: All officials (N 68) in one of the four northern counties were invited to recording their reflections on health promoting factors close to their meetings with newly arrived. The officials recorded how they defined health promoting factors according to the Audit method. The data collection of experiences of importance considering health promotion and social determinants was collected by five focus group interviews with twenty-three officials. Results: This study showed that the officials defined access to the health care, participation in the society, and sufficient collaboration between the authorities for not losing valuable time during the establishment period as imported factors for their clients' opportunities for health. The officials take power among males for given, while they more often reflected over lack of power among women. However, the Swedish ideal of gender as equal quite often a challenge the newly arrivals.

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“…Indeed, care work provided by migrant women has been an effective and low-priced response to the structural deficiencies of the Italian elderly care system, which has allowed the State to recurrently postpone the necessary and highly expensive reforms that demographic ageing would have imposed (Sciortino, 2004;Naldini and Saraceno, 2008). MCWs have been recurrently depicted as good and useful for the Italian society and economy, thereby increasing their acceptability on the general public opinion (Ambrosini, 2013b). This has been and still is a key element of what has been described as a 'low-cost' immigration model, that is one in which immigration has been part of a sort of survival strategy instead of being used to enhance the productivity of the system: it has allowed to maintain the status quo and postpone the necessary structural reforms at a quite low price in political and economic terms (Da Roit and Sabbatinelli, 2013;Pastore, Salis and Villosio, 2012;Naldini and Saraceno, 2008).…”

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A Crucial Testing Ground

Salis

2014

CMS

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European societies are currently facing serious challenges in responding to a large and growing demand of long-term care services. To a varying, but overall substantial, extent this increasing demand is satisfied through migration, with migrant women workers representing everywhere a considerable share of the workforce available in the care sector. In this paper two key questions arising from these observations will be addressed: What has been the specific role of migration in addressing labour shortages in the care sector across Europe? And, secondly, what are the drivers of the different immigration policy approaches adopted? Drawing on EU-LFS data I will describe the main entry channels of migrant care workers, also distinguished by skill and occupational level, to highlight the specific immigrant labour supply policy mix adopted by national governments. Recent theories of managed migration policies will be critically assessed to ultimately discuss their ability to explain the immigrant labour supply policy mix in the care sector.

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Immigration in Italy: Between Economic Acceptance and Political Rejection

Cited by 67 publications

References 15 publications

Immigration Policies in Italy: Their Impact on the Lives of First-Generation Moroccan and Egyptian Migrants

Immigration Policies in Italy: Their Impact on the Lives of First-Generation Moroccan and Egyptian Migrants

Officials Reflections about Health Promoting Factors among Newly Arrivals - An Introductory Analysis

A Crucial Testing Ground

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