Elementary Facts About Immigration in Italy: What Do We Know About Immigration and its Impact?

Mariani, Rama Dasi; Pasquini, Annalisa; Rosati, Furio Camillo

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3590879

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“…Most of the immigrant population living in Italy, in fact, comes from other European countries, such as Romania (Mariani, Pasquini and Rosati, 2020), but these immigrants are completely ignored in Salvini's discourse. The same happens with Latin Americans, which are not as visible as in Spain, thus not even mentioned.…”

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“Africa does not Fit in Europe”

Cervi

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2021

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The politicization of immigration has moved the debate about immigration at the center of the run-up of elections, creating the breeding ground for the electoral breakthrough and success of right-wing populist parties. This article aims at disclosing the narrative of immigration and its politicization in VOX’s discourse, comparing it to the Italian Lega party. Clause-based semantic text analysis reveals that both parties share the classic characteristics of nativist populism: the representation of a virtuous and hardworking people, threatened by the invasion by some “others”, immigrants, who intrude the sovereign, antispace of natives to exploit and commit crimes. In both cases, the concept of space is manipulated, representing countries as limited spaces, allowing to depict immigrants as a threat to legitimize negative political responses. The study also identifies a novelty: the construction of the rescue NGOs as the new antagonist actor.

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“Africa does not Fit in Europe”

Cervi

Tejedor

2021

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“…For a detailed analysis of immigrant location choice see Bartel (1989). For a description of the geographical distribution of immigrants in Italy see Mariani et al (2020).…”

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Immigrant supply of marketable child care and native fertility in Italy

Mariani

Rosati

2021

J. Dem. Econ.

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The availability of child-care services has often been advocated as one of the instruments to counter the fertility decline observed in many high-income countries. In the recent past, large inflows of low-skilled migrants have substantially increased the supply of child-care services. In this paper, we examine if immigration has actually affected fertility exploiting the natural experiment occurred in Italy in 2007, when a large inflow of migrants—many of them specialized in the supply of child care—arrived unexpectedly. With a difference-in-differences method, we show that immigrant female workers have increased native births by a number that ranges roughly from 2% to 4%. We validate our result by the implementation of an instrumental variable approach and several robustness tests, all concluding that the increase in the supply of child-care services by immigrant women has positively affected native fertility.

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“…For a detailed analysis of immigrant location choice seeBartel (1989). For a description of the geographical distribution of immigrants in Italy seeMariani et al (2020) …”

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