In 2020, Italy sent 1,240 migrants to Slovenia
The report on immigration for 2021 of the IDOS research center states that Italy sent 1,240 migrants and asylum seekers to Slovenia within the framework of readmission agreements between January and mid-November 2020.
“Italy sent 1,240 migrants and asylum seekers back to Slovenia between January and mid-November 2020, and in the summer of 2020 the Interior Ministry acknowledged that a few asylum seekers were included in the readmission to Slovenia,” says Rivolti ai Balcani2.
This figure emerged during the presentation of the 2021 Immigration Report of the IDOS Research Center on 28 October in Friuli Venezia Giulia (FVG) in north-eastern Italy.
Co-author of the report Paolo Attanasio pointed out that “these readmissions mean for us to be pushed aside, as the Italian authorities cannot ignore the fact that people readmitted to Slovenia are then subjected to successive readmissions from Slovenia to Croatia and from there to Serbia or Bosnia and thus abandoned in conditions of moral and material abandonment. “
‘The case unfortunately remains very topical’
The IDF regional branch of FVG emphasized that all the authorities involved in this matter should focus on the issues raised by the report.
“Unfortunately, the matter remains very topical,” said Attanasio, “as according to the latest available reports, Italian-Slovenian patrols in the province of Trieste / Koper and Gorizia / Nova Gorica continued until July 2021 on the basis of a new, recent agreement between the Rome and Ljubljana police authorities. . “
The number of foreign residents in the FVG region decreased during COVID
The report also addressed the total number of foreigners in the region. The authors found that most likely due to “COVID-related problems”, the number of foreign residents in the FVG region fell slightly between 2019 and 2020 – 0.4%, ending with a total of 106,851 regions.
The decline in 2020 was the largest with -0.9% of a total of 38,926 foreign residents in Udine, followed by Pordenone (-0.8%, 31,861) and Gorizia (-0.3%, 14,612).
The number of foreigners in the province of Trieste increased by 1.1% to 21,452.
The Romanian community remains the largest in the region, accounting for 23.4% of foreign nationals, followed by Albanians with 8.6%. Thus, immigration to the FVG remains more “European” than that in the rest of Italy, “with a clear prevalence (of foreigners) from Eastern and Central European countries.”
Work and study
The share of foreign students in the entire region increased from 12.4% to 12.9%. “It should also be remembered,” Attanasio said, “that 65% of the more than 20,000 foreign students enrolled in schools in the region were born in Italy. This indicates the urgent need for a thorough reform of the citizenship law” in Italy, he said. concluded.
On the issue of employment, the share of foreign workers decreased from 11% to 10.5%, while the share of foreign nationals among the unemployed increased to 22% compared to 21.9% in 2019.
Of the Italians employed in the region, about 36.9% are in management professions, compared to 9% of foreigners.
“The reasons for this discrepancy, which in some cases assumes signs of discrimination,” Attanasio said, “are not necessarily to be found in the professional qualifications of foreign workers who are overqualified compared to the roles they perform in 45% of workers. cases compared to 28% of Italians. “