Five million immigrants regolised

One million are children. The Dossier Caritas Migrantes. "Damage to Italy more than they receive"

October 26, 2010 Rome - Legal immigrants in Italy skim share 5 million, a resource that we consider a problem still persists.

To give as every year the numbers of immigration is the Immigration Statistical Dossier 2010 Migrantes Caritas and presented today in Rome, arrived by now in its twentieth edition. Istat early 2010 counted 4.2 million foreign residents, but the report says 4.9 million become, if we take into account all the regular not yet registered in the register, in practice there would be an immigrant every twelve residents.

The Romanians continued to be the largest community, about 890mila residents, 21% of immigrants, followed by Albanians (470mila, 11%), Moroccans (430mila, 10.2%), Chinese (190 thousand, 4.4%) and Ukraine (170 thousand, 4.1%). Lombardy is home to a fifth of foreign residents (982,225, 23.2%), just over a tenth of living in the Lazio region (497,940, 11.8%), followed by Ontario (480,616, 11.3%) and Emilia Romagna (461,321, 10.9%).

The clearest indicator that immigration is more stable than are the children: a total of almost one million, more than half of whom were born in Italy. Children of immigrants in school are 670mila, 7.5% of the school population. Numbers, they, also raising the urgency to change the rules to become Italian.

It is about 10% of foreign workers, and a holder of 3.5% of foreign companies, rising to 7.2% if we consider only the small businesses. The economic crisis has hit hard the foreign workers: the employment rate between 2008 and 209, has risen from 67.1% to 64.5%, while the unemployment rate rose from 8, 5 to 11%, 2%.

In light of the effects of the crisis, said the dossier, but we must ask whether immigrants, contributing to the production of GDP for 11, 1%, are not the problem or rather a contribution to its solution.

Without foreign workers, agriculture, construction, industry, family support and many other areas not attractive to most Italians would not go forward. The dossier was then calculated that immigrants pay in the public coffers, including social security contributions and taxes, 11 billion euro per year, more than they receive in social benefits and services, 10 billion.

Last year, the Transatlantic Trends Research has shown that half of Americans and Europeans, including Italians, they see immigration as a problem. You can frame this way, calls for the Dossier, a reality which you need?

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La sintesi del Dossier Statistico Immigrazione 2010