The countries of Southern Europe – Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain – have become in the last decades countries of immigration, while they are still areas of emigration even thug with a substant reduction of the emigration flows. The patterns of immigration in these countries have several...

L?articolo parte dalla confutazione di una diffusa convinzione relativa al peggioramento della condizione degli anziani nella società attuale rispetto al passato. L?analisi storica mostra infatti che la condizione degli anziani è variata nel corso della storia ed è stata migliore nel periodo...

This paper analyses the characteristics and specificities of poverty in Southern Italy. Absolute poverty has dramatically diminished in Italy and in the South over the last few decades. The population sectors worst hit by poverty have also changed in terms of demographic and social composition,...

This article takes its lead from the anniversary of the labour hire agreement signed between Italy and Germany in 1955. On the basis of this agreement, and of the subsequent choices in German migration policy, Italian emigration to Germany has remained essentially temporary, following a rotation...

The article brings into focus the changes that have taken place in Italy and Europe in the last twenty years. In Italy unemployment rates have decreased in the last 12 years while the political orientation of the government has changed several times. The article underlines that a decline in job...

The article analyses the socio-economic changes that have taken place in the Italian Mezzogiorno with particular reference to international as well as national migrations. In accordance with Manlio Rossi-Doria’s view, emigration is here considered one of the most active factors of social...