Immigration policy in Italy is governed, as far as the most important aspects are concerned, by two different regulatory traditions: that of the workers' movement and labour law, which is completely universal and guaranteed, and that of State legislation on citizens' civil, political and social...

Few concrete measures concerned with discrimination on the labour market (apart form the efforts to open up employment in the public sector to all) emerge from this report on activities on behalf of immigrants in the Socialist trade union, OGB-L. The reasons for this probably relate to the fact...