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F oreign population in Southern European host countries : Italy Spain Greece Portugal

Foreign immigration in Southern European receiving countries: New evidence from national data sources. F oreign population in Southern European host countries : Italy Spain Greece Portugal. What are the purposes of this paper?

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F oreign population in Southern European host countries : Italy Spain Greece Portugal

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  1. Foreign immigration in Southern European receiving countries: New evidence from national data sources

  2. Foreign population in Southern European host countries: • Italy • Spain • Greece • Portugal What are the purposes of this paper? To highlight some new evidenceon the recent evolution of foreign population. A strong focus of this paper is on the changes in the geographical origins of recent immigrants. The changes in the European migration scenario due to migrants leaving Latin America, Eastern Europe and the Balkans. The approach: is based on the comparison and integration of several data sources, used to draw the quantitative evolution of the stock of foreigners.

  3. From national data sources to the measurement of the stock of foreigners In this section, the evolution of the foreign population in Southern European host countries from the beginning of the 1990s is reconstructed. The most recent trends are considered with particular attention.Since the different national data sources capture diverse subsets of the foreign population and are characterized by a variable quality of registrations, our approach strives to draw a picture as comprehensive as possible by comparing and integrating the available information.

  4. Italy

  5. Foreign population in Italy

  6. Spain Also for the Spain there are three main sources that enable to draw the evolutionof foreigners

  7. Foreign population in Spain

  8. Portugal

  9. Foreign population in Portugal

  10. Greece

  11. Foreign population in Greece

  12. The role of Southern Europe in the European migration scenario

  13. New countries of origin: from South-North to East-West migration [1]. Italy According to Table 8.2 there was a considerable increase in the foreign population in Italy among 2001-2006). It has concerned only migrants coming from developing countries and from Central and Eastern Europe. The increase in Africans has (most imigrants in Italy are North Africans) been lower, in fact for example Moroccans, although increasing, have lost their over ten years of supremacy, being outnumbered by Albanians and Romanians. The Filipino community, one of the first group in Italy, has been outnumbered by the Chinese community as well. Migration from the Indian subcontinent has also grown - Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis. Among Latin Americans (Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Ecuador.

  14. New countries of origin: from South-North to East-West migration [2]. Spain As shown in the Table 8.3 foreigners in Spain are more Latin Americans but also Eastern Europeans. In Spain international migration flows have also intensified over the past fifteen years. The number of foreign who held a permit to stay at the beginning of 2001 has tripled in five years. During the second half of the 1990s the increase in legal foreigners was mostly due to inflows of Moroccans and Northern Africans. Latin America has suddenly become the most important sending region for Spain (an increase of 185000 about one million; Ecuadorians, Colombians, Argentinean, Peruvian and Bolivian. However the most important change in the Spanish migration scenario is the beginning and strengthening of migratory flows from CEE (Central and Eastern Europe.

  15. New countries of origin: from South-North to East-West migration [3]. Portugal The table above show the inflow’s area of immigration in Portugal. Almost half of the regular immigrants were citizens of Portuguese-speaking African countries (PALOP) with Capo Verdeans being the most sizeable group and other large communities coming from Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Sao Tomé and Principe. Among Latin Americans, Brazilian have the higher number. In 2000 the Portuguese migration scenario has shifted in migrant origins with a significant inflow of Eastern Europeans. The clear predominance of Ukrainians among the new temporary workers – followed by Moldavians, Romanians and Russian.

  16. New countries of origin: from South-North to East-West migration [4]. Greece Compared with the other Southern European countries, in term of migration flow Greece has experienced in advance the consequences of the collapse of regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. The dominance of Central and Eastern Europeans in the Greek immigration scenario was confirmed by the 2001 censuses. Besides an overwhelming majority of Albanians, the presence of Bulgarians, Georgians, Romanians and Ukrainians was recorded.

  17. Conclusions In the last years the study of international migrations in Southern Europe has significantly improved. The substantial success of the 2000 round censuses in capturing foreign populations, the availability of new sources able to quantify the whole universe of foreigners, the issue of extensive datasets on regularisation procedures, have all contributed to a better understanding of the migratory phenomena in these countries. Nevertheless, significant limits still remain, and further efforts to fill in some serious gaps in information are needed.

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