Italy

DEMOGRAPHICS

Arrivals

9% of Population: 5.3 million refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants currently live in Italy.

*Data sources: Infomigrants; Statistica

DIVERSITY CONTRIBUTION

*Data sources: UNHCR: Refugees & Migrants Arrivals to Europe, Relief Web International

Languages Spoken

English
Tigrinya
French
Arabic
Bengali
Somali

60%

Migrants Speaking Two Languages

*Data source: Italy Migrants Documents

33%

Migrants speaking Italian and French

*Data source: 2020 Migrants Study

ECONOMIC CONTRIBUTION

Top 3 Fields of Labor*

Farming

100%

Gardening

60%

Construction

40%

*Shown as a % share of immigrants in the field of labor.

**Data source: Italy Volantino Report 2019

9.4%

Immigrant Entrepreneurs

€27.4M

Taxable Immigrant Income

€13.9M

Immigrant Contribution to Social Security

SOCIO-FAMILIAL CONTRIBUTION

Unaccompanied Children Released to Sponsore

*Data sources: UNICEF Report Unaccompanied Minors; Statista Unaccompanied Minors 2017; UNHCR - Report on Unaccompanied Minors Europe

COMMUNITY AND EDUCATION CONTRIBUTION

Italian universities support refugee students

UNI-CO-RE University Corridors for Refugees

Italian Foreign Ministry
Italian Catholic Charities Caritas
Valdensian Diaconia Valdese
Ghandi Charity
UNHCR

Universities of L'Aquila, Bologna, Cagliari, Florence, Milan, Padua, Perugia, Pisa, Sassari, Luav, and Luiss all participate in creating "University Corridors" to help students from war-torn countries.

*Data source: Infomigrants Refugee Education

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Jenna Perego

Community Programs Coordinator, Italy

Jenna loves to journal. She grew up in Missouri and moved to Italy with her husband and five kids in 2012. Jenna believes everyone has a story. Shortly after arriving in Italy, Jenna made a dear friend in her church congregation who had just arrived with her baby and husband on a heroic and horrific voyage by sea from Lybia. This friend’s story changed Jenna’s perspective on her own challenges and opened her eyes to the stories of refugees in her community. She helped TSOS collect stories in Rome in 2017, then volunteered with MEDU and now with LDS Charity’s Friendship Centre.