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July 3 - July 10, 2011 |
Exploring the new class of Italian emigrants
Report reveals Canada is getting youth makeover thanks to recent flux of migration
By Leonardo N. Molinelli
They are 4.1 million. They’re younger, more and more are women, they’re better educated, predominantly from the south, and they don’t consider themselves emigrants. These are the new Italian emigrants, according to the Rapporto italiani nel mondo 2011 (report on Italians in the world, 2011) – the sixth edition of the Migrantes report by the like-named foundation that studies fluxes and migratory tendencies of Italians throughout the world. The report, which was presented last week at Rieti, was edited by Delfina Licata who explains the study’s results to Corriere Canadese/Tandem on the evolution of the Italian community outside the Bel Paese borders and in particular the one that emigrated to Canada.
“This year we have surprising results on the topics researched,” explains Licata, underlining that she isn’t interested in analyzing numerical changes in themselves but rather “the change in the scenario we see evolving these past six years.”
Considering those who have an Italian passport and right to vote, the 2011 numbers, according to numbers from registry offices of Italians living abroad, speak of “over 4 million 115 thousand Italian residents abroad.”
The continuity in the statistics classification is due to the fact that over these past six years of research, emigration is “prevalently Euroamerican” and that “over 2 million are from the Mezzogiorno (south of Italy).”
The Migrantes report also explains that this evolution “through various elements” allows us to confirm that “contrary to popular thinking, thanks to the new births and the new fluxes, the Italian community abroad is getting younger.”
Supporting the theory, according to Licata, is “the increase in the number of citizenship acquisitions, increased feminization of Italian emigration, birth rate increases abroad (Editor’s note: reaching about 1.5 million births abroad), the increase of singles, and the increase in size of the 18-to-40 age group.”
Added to these statistics “is the increase of those who registered with AIRE” over the past five to ten years, “the increase in minors and decrease in elderly presence” – a series of data and other evidence that finds Canada to be at a merging point between the old and new generation.
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