Italy is far from implementing a development friendly migration policy. Resources are mainly used to curb illegal migration, repatriate clandestine migrants and manage illegal flows. In some cases this approach has been quite successful, as for example with Albania, while in other cases this has...

Ecuador is a country with a large cultural, ethnic, climatic and geographical diversity. With about 12.1 million people, according to the latest census of 2001, it is the second smallest Latin American country. Increasing poverty (from 3.5 to 5.3 million people during the period between the last...