The tendency for stable settlement is more characteristic for Italy
(ANSAmed) ROME Immigrants in Italy are around half of those in Germany but the arrivals in Italy are rising at such a fast pace that in about a dozen years they might reach 7 million, the number registered today in Germany.
The finding is in a comparative report on immigration in the two countries, presented today at the Goethe Institute in Rome at a conference on integration. The survey, carried out in collaboration with Caritas-Migrantes, showed various differences, beginning with the main one: Italy became country of immigration 30 years after Germany.
While Germany is characterised by a net numeric supremacy of the main immigrant national group, the Turkish, which represents one fourth of the total, Italy is a polycentric territory which contains numerous groups of a certain consistency: in order to make one third of the total one must put together the first three groups: Romanians, Albanians and Moroccans. Today Germany and Italy, despite the high number of unemployed (3.9 million in Germany, more than double compared to Italy) are aware of the fact that jobless immigrants are not capable of occupying all job positions available.Germany focuses on qualified immigrants mainly while Italy believes that to some extent unqualified immigrants are needed as well. The tendency for stable settlement is more characteristic for Italy, due not only to the high number of family reunions (100,000 a year compared to 76,000 in Germany) but also to the substantial numerical equality of genders (compared to Germany where 52% of immigrants are men) and the number of children (21.9% in Italy, compared to 18.2% in Germany).
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