Migration Flows and Migration Crisis in Southern Europe

Maddaloni, Domenico; Moffa, Grazia

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“…According to a recent review of the literature on migration in southern European countries (Maddaloni & Moffa, 2019), there are many important migration flows in this area. It is well known that there is a persisting flow of migrants and refugees from sub-Saharan Africa and the Near and Middle East.…”

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In Search of a Good Life in a Southern European Country: The New Italian Migration to Athens and Valencia.

Ingellis,

Maddaloni

2022

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One of the main migration flows from southern Europe is the so-called ‘new emigration’ from southern Europe towards other developed countries, mainly in North Europe. Nevertheless, we still don’t know very much about the internal flows in the area. The main aims of this paper are to contribute to a better understanding of these processes and to find common pathways, discussing – in a comparative perspective – the first results of two inquiries conducted on Italians living in Attica (Greece) and Valencia (Spain). The two studies have been carried out with a qualitative method mixing the techniques of participatory observation in virtual and real communities and in-depth interviews. The main result of the comparison is that both migration flows go beyond the idea of a new emigration from Southern Europe predominantly caused by a lack of good jobs. Other factors and motives seem to be at stake today in these pathways of mobility: the cost of living, the safety of public spaces, the good weather or the geographical proximity to the origin areas, among others. Those factors do not replace the relevance of economic migration motives, but certainly put forward the complexity of these emerging intra-southern European countries migration flows, underlining the multidimensional factors pushing them.

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In Search of a Good Life in a Southern European Country: The New Italian Migration to Athens and Valencia.

Ingellis,

Maddaloni

2022

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“…. It is well known that Italy – like many other countries in Southern Europe – is currently home of a wide range of internal and international mobility flows (Maddaloni and Moffa, 2019). Among these flows, a very important one is emigration.…”

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Not only for work: Italian migrants in the Athens area

Maddaloni

Moffa

2020

International Migration

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According to the official Italian administrative data, the community of Italians living in Athens went on growing over the years, including the last decade. What are the drivers of Italian immigration in a less-developed country than Italy, a country which recently has also experienced a more serious crisis than the Italian one? To answer this question, we followed a research strategy based on in-depth interviews to Italians living in the Athens area. After reviewing the features of the Italian community and those of the group of interviewees, we focus on the respondents who found a job in Athens, both as independent workers and as employees. Our results show that a great number of drivers are at work in producing a migration flow from Italy to Greece. They support the idea that contemporary international migration (more specifically, intra-European migration) cannot be fully understood by relying exclusively on an economic approach.

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Conceptualizing Motives for Migration: a Typology of Italian Migrants in the Athens Area

Paoli

Maddaloni

2021

Int. Migration & Integration

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Migration flows from a southern European country to another one have received scarce attention so far. This is especially true for Italians migrating to Greece or, more specifically, the Athens area. Thus, there are limited insights as to the reasons why Italians are leaving and why they have been choosing Greece as their destination. This paper looks at their motives for migrating and their destination choice in order to understand the diversity of migratory trajectories through a typology. In order to do this, we carried out in-depth interviews to Italians living, both permanently and temporarily, in the Athens area, employing snowball sampling. As a result, we have identified 5 types of Italian immigrants in Athens: Mediterranean, nomadic, work, entrepreneurial, and marriage migrants. Mediterranean migrants are driven by the typically Mediterranean character of climate, landscape, food, and culture in their deliberate choice of Athens. Nomadic migrants have casually chosen Athens to satisfy their need of continuous physical mobility and multiple moorings as a defining aspect of their identity. Work migrants are motivated by the search of a job regardless of the place and work content. Entrepreneurial migrants are motivated by a vocation for a professional career in Athens. Finally, for marriage migrants, the choice of Athens is a consequence of a couple choice and shared life projects.

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Migration Flows and Migration Crisis in Southern Europe

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In Search of a Good Life in a Southern European Country: The New Italian Migration to Athens and Valencia.

In Search of a Good Life in a Southern European Country: The New Italian Migration to Athens and Valencia.

Not only for work: Italian migrants in the Athens area

Conceptualizing Motives for Migration: a Typology of Italian Migrants in the Athens Area

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