Thursday,
October 11
Italy has Most Migrants of Industrialized
Countries in Last 150 Years
The
ANNOTICO Report
While
28 million Italians have left
In addition, some 60-70 million people of Italian origin and with
connections to the country live in different parts of the world.
The majority of emigrants don’t stray too far from home. Nearly 60% of Italians
living abroad live in
Europe,
although just over a third have settled in the
Millions
of Italians Living Abroad
Report
reveals about 28 million have left country since 1861
Tandem
Corriere Canadese
Oct
14,2007-Oct 21,2007
More people
have emigrated from
The ‘Italians in the World Report 200,’ established by the Catholic immigration organization, Migrantes, notes that 28 million Italians have left the country since
1861, and more than 3.5 million Italians live abroad today.
In addition, some 60-70 million people of Italian origin and with connections
to the country live in different parts of the world.
The report, which looked at data from several sources, found that the majority
of emigrants don’t stray too far from home. Nearly 60% of Italians
living abroad live in Europe, although just over a third have
settled in the
Over half of Italian emigrants are unmarried and a comparatively high number
have kids. Eighteen per cent of the Italian population resident abroad is under
the age of 18.
The same percentage, 18, is over 65, with 410,000 Italians collecting a pension
abroad, totalling 1.184 million euros. Women account
for 47% of Italians abroad around the world, although this percentage is higher
in the
In
fact, most Italians moving abroad are either professionals or aspiring
professionals, and an above-average number of Italians — nearly 45,000 — attend university abroad.
This
is only the second edition of the Migrantes report,
which was set up last year, in the wake of the 2006 elections, during which
Italians living abroad were allowed to vote for the first time. The amendment
to the Italian constitution that gave Italian residents abroad the vote was
approved in 2000, with the support of both political blocs.
Laws implementing the change were approved a year later under the Silvio Berlusconi government.
The vote of Italians abroad turned out to be crucial in the April 2006 general
election, where Berlusconi’s centre-right coalition appeared to have won control
of the Senate until the
foreign votes were counted.
Although Italians abroad don’t pay taxes, the money they send home is thought to
generate indirect earnings of around 100 billion Euros each year.
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