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Italy
The migrant population has become a structural component of Italian society in every respect. The very processes of settling in and socio-economic stabilisation have contributed to the generation of profound social transformations, achieving a greater integration and a growing socialisation between the host and the migrant populations, in the workplace and trade unions, as well as in schools. Nevertheless, in the dominant discourse migration has consistently been represented by the media, by the entrepreneurial class and by the various national administrations essentially in two ways: as an emergency and a threat to national security and to so-called "Fortress Europe", that culminates in the criminalisation of immigration itself; or else as a resource to relaunch the Italian economy internationally or to bolster weak demographic growth that is incapable of satisfying the pressing demands of the labour market, thus reducing migrants exclusively to their productive and reproductive functions.
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University "Ca’Foscari" of Venice,
Dorsoduro, 2530,
30123 Venezia, Italy
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