A re-examination of net migration in European countries in the period 2002-2011: estimates by gender, age and region of birth

In order to look at the magnitude, demographic characteristics and origin of international migration flows of the last decade, net migration of the foreign born population by sex, age and macro-region of birth were estimated for EU15 countries, plus Norway and Switzerland, using the methodology developed by Hill (1987)

Foreign immigration in Italy: a forty-year-old history

ABSTRACT. Italy has long been a multi-ethnic and multicultural country, with over 5 million resident foreigners displaying a great variety in terms of origins, characteristics and behaviours. After locating our country within Europe’s context of migration, this paper describes the contribution of demography to the observation of the phenomenon and to the evaluation of its demographic impact. Finally, the paper deals with some major issues related to the integration of adult migrants and their children’s schooling. RIASSUNTO. L’Italia è ormai da tempo un paese multietnico e multiculturale con oltre 5 milioni di stranieri residenti estremamente eterogenei per origini, caratteristiche e comportamenti. Dopo aver collocato il nostro paese all’interno del contesto migratorio europeo, questo articolo fa il punto della situazione sul contributo della demografia alla rilevazione del fenomeno e alla valutazione del suo impatto demografico. Richiama infine alcune questioni importanti per quanto concerne l’integrazione degli immigrati adulti e l’inserimento scolastico dei loro figli

Inter-provincial migration in Italy: a comparison between Italians and foreigners

Internal migration in Italy increased in the 2000s due to foreigners residing in the country. Foreigners have changed the characteristics of Italy’s internal migration. Extended gravity models were run to highlight the differences between the migratory behaviours of Italians and foreigners. The model was implemented to detect the different effects of the Italian and foreign populations, and the distances between the provinces of origin and destinations of the inter-provincial migration of Italians and foreigners. Estimations obtained for the years 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010, and 2015 highlight the different evolutions of the phenomenon

Migrazioni e criminalità in Italia e in Campania: evidenze, criticità e necessità informative

Nel capitolo, dopo aver fornito una stima dell'evoluzione della presenza straniera residente e totale (regolare e irregolare) in Italia e in Campania, si presentano, evidenziandone potenzialità, limiti e lacune informative, i dati ad oggi disponibili su autori e vittime di delitto secondo le informazioni raccolte dal Sistema di Investigazione (SdI) del Servizio per il Sistema Informativo Interforze (SSII): banca dati informatizzata che a partire dal 2004 raccoglie informazioni e comunicazioni di cui le Forze di polizia sono venute a conoscenza e che è stata costituita per finalità operative. Successivamente si analizzano le informazioni relative ai condannati con sentenza definitiva e ai detenuti presenti negli istituti penitenziari utilizzando i dati provenienti dal Dipartimento dell'amministrazione penitenziaria del Ministero della Giustizia che rileva la condanna per il principale delitto al momento dell’iscrizione nel registro del Casellario Giudiziale Centrale

The fertility of immigrants after arrival: The Italian case

Background: Previous studies show that migration and fertility may be strongly connected and that the migration history and duration of stay should be included in the analysis of reproductive behavior of foreign women. Objective: This study investigates the risk of having a first child in Italy for Albanian, Moroccan, and Romanian women, currently the three largest groups of immigrants to Italy. Methods: By implementing record linkage procedures, we were able to use a longitudinal approach on Italian cross-sectional administrative data on births and international migration. Following the 2003 cohort of immigrants, we estimated the hazard ratio of having a first birth in Italy in the period 2003-2006 using the piecewise-exponential model. Results: Strong differences by citizenship in the fertility pattern remain even when we control for migratory and demographic factors. At the same time, there is a clear pattern in the timing of motherhood for the different types of migration. Conclusions: Different citizenships also have different timings of reproduction when the migratory model is taken into account. The high risk for family reasons in the short period is obviously related to the hypothesis of interrelated events, whereas women who come for work reasons need more time to adjust and to decide to have children in the host country. Comments: This study in line with the international literature confirms that, besides the strong arrival effect for the new immigration cohorts on the risk of having a birth in Italy, there is a strong interrelation between the migration and family behavior. © 2012 Eleonora Mussino & Salvatore Strozza

Foreigners’ contribution to the evolution of fertility in Italy: a re-examination on the decade 2001-2011

The aim of our article is to describe the evolution of migrants’ fertility in Italy in the inter-census period (2001-2011) and to estimate its impact on the change of total fertility and mean age at childbearing at national and regional level. Making use of decomposition models we demonstrate as the recovery of TFR (concentrated in the period 2004-2008) was determined by Italians’ fertility recovery and by the increasing weight of foreign women. The younger age pattern of foreign fertility, together with the growing contribution to total fertility, have generally slowed down the process of increasing mean age at childbearing of female residing in Italy

Short term reproductive behaviour of foreign women who became mothers between 2002-2006 in Italy

The rapid increase in the number of foreigners in Italy has raised public interest in their demographic behaviour. In 2001-2007 the annual number of births to at least one foreign parent has more than doubled, from about 41,000 to more than 86,000. The main objective of this study is to give an overview of the demographic characteristics of foreign mothers in Italy. We investigate the risk of having another birth for women who became mothers between 2002 and 2006. The new approach in this study is the application of a deterministic record linkage to Italian administrative data on births, which allows a longitudinal analysis of birth histories. The results show that citizenship remains one of the most important factors in explaining the high heterogeneity in the reproductive behaviour among the mothers. The possibility of an `assimilative behaviour' to fertility patterns of native Italians increases for mothers whose partner is Italian.

Economic Crisis and Demographic Dynamics

Contemporary history is studded with banking and financial crises. There is however a widespread belief that this most recent crisis has given rise to a broader-based depression than that of 1929. The drastic fall in GDP in 2008-09 concerned both more economically developed ones and countries with emerging economies or developing countries. In Italy, the decrease in GDP in 2008 and 2009 was greater than the average values of western economies and the fleeting recovery of 2010-2011 was less substantial than in many other advanced countries, followed by a further two years of decrease in the volume of production. In a period as difficult as this one, have there been any important changes in the demographic behaviour of the Italian population? Have people continued to marry, have children, separate and migrate as in the years before the crisis? Has life expectancy continued to increase or has anything changed in Italian people’s health and lifestyles

Immigrants’ settlement patterns in the city of Naples

ABSTRACT. Residential segregation is the outcome of both economic inhomogeneities within the urban space and attraction among individuals sharing the same ethnicity. Here we focus on the settlement patterns originated by different groups of immigrants in the city of Naples. We use the inhomogeneous L-function for measuring segregation due to spatial attraction, while adjusting for the effects of inhomogeneity. Monte Carlo simulations have been used to build confidence envelopes for the null hypothesis of absence of spatial attraction. All nationalities exhibited significant spatial attraction at all considered distances, except for Romania and Poland. However, spatial attraction resulted much stronger for immigrants from Pakistan, China, and Sri Lanka. RIASSUNTO. La segregazione residenziale è la risultante di disomogeneità economiche all’interno dello spazio urbano e dell’attrazione tra individui della stessa etnia. In questo lavoro, noi considerazione i modelli insediativi originati da diversi gruppi di immigrati stranieri nella città di Napoli ed impieghiamo la funzione L disomogenea per misurare la segregazione causata dall’attrazione spaziale, tenendo sotto controllo le disomogeneità spaziali. Tramite simulazioni Monte Carlo abbiamo costruito degli intervalli di confidenza per l’ipotesi nulla di assenza di attrazione. Tutte le nazionalità analizzate hanno mostrato un’attrazione spaziale significativa a tutte le distanze considerate, ad eccezione di Rumeni e Polacchi. Un’attrazione più forte è stata osservata per gli immigrati provenienti dal Pakistan, Cina e Sri Lanka