La inmigración de italianos a Valencia: más allá de las migraciones económicas

Abstract

Este artículo presenta un estudio sobre la inmigración de italianos a la ciudad de Valencia en la última década. Los objetivos principales son analizar la composición demográfica del colectivo y las motivaciones del desplazamiento. El estudio se ha realizado con una triangulación de métodos, incluyendo análisis de datos estadísticos secundario, etnografía digital y entrevistas en profundidad. Los resultados apuntan a que se trata de un flujo migratorio compuesto por adultos jóvenes, solos y con familias de procreación. Las causas del desplazamiento no son estrictamente económicas, sino que están relacionadas con la búsqueda de una mejor calidad de vida, donde destacan elementos como la posibilidad de disponer de más y mejores servicios públicos (salud, educación, transporte, etc.) y un mayor respeto por las normas que regulan la convivencia. La principal conclusión es que las teorías migratorias clásicas no pueden explicar este flujo migratorio emergente.

Italians in Valencia: A New Lifestyle Migration in an Urban Context

“…First, it aims to explore noneconomic factors motivating migration in a sample of a population significantly different from subjects of most empirical LM studies. Most Italians in Valencia are neither affluent nor retired, but are predominantly people of working age with children (Ingellis & Esteban, 2020). Observing this group provides the opportunity to test the conceptual analysis of migration motivations developed by LM scholars on a group of people for whom work is a key existential issue, distinguishing them from the majority of migration groups previously analysed by LM scholars, for whom work is incidental.…”

Labor Insertion of Italian Professionals in Valencia: Between Emerging and Traditional Professions

“…The digital freelancers were experts in social media, marketing online, currently working in a global digital environment, who had chosen Valencia as a migration destination mainly for lifestyle reasons (Ingellis & Esteban, 2020) and low taxes. The well-being professionals were mainly personal trainers or beauticians with expert knowledge, targeting a high-spending clientele by providing high quality services and products, using Italian raw materials, considered the best quality in Spain, and branding their products and services as "Italian style" to make their clients feel special.…”

“…Although the migration motive was not related to professional factors (Ingellis & Esteban, 2020), many interviewees explained that they had found a new sustainable equilibrium in costs and income of their professions by taking advantage of living between two professional communities in two ways. On one hand, they enjoyed the benefits of living and working in Spain, where taxes and the cost of living were lower, the services were better, and the paperwork and bureaucracy were much easier and less time-consuming; on the other, they earned good incomes by maintaining clients in Italy or elsewhere in the world who were willing and able to pay more than most local clients.…”

“…The research presented in this article explores this process in a special group of professionals, namely migrants, through a case study: the labor market insertion of Italian professionals in the city of Valencia. The case of Valencia is particularly interesting because the city is characterized by its very extended secondary segment of labor market and few opportunities of good jobs in the primary sector (Casado-Diaz, 2000;Ingellis & Esteban, 2020). It does not offer the opportunities of global cities such as Madrid or Barcelona.…”

“Los eurocéntricos no somos migrantes”

“…Además, cabe señalar el estudio comparativo de carácter socio-económico de Ingellis y Calvo (2015) y los ensayos de Bruzzone, Mignolli, Pace y Recaño Valverde (2018) y Bruzzone, Mignolli, y Pace (2019) sobre la movilidad italiana en España. Finalmente, en el marco de las investigaciones académicas referentes a la emigración italiana en la Península Ibérica, se destacan las publicaciones de Esteban e Ingellis (2018) y de Ingellis y Esteban (2020).…”