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There is no one unique integration for all immigrants Adriano Cancellieri is a Sociologist at Iuav University in Venice and has just published Migrants and Urban Space in the latest issue of Il Mulino magazine. Q: In one of your recent articles, to summarize briefly, you speak about the integration of immigrants as being all or nothing. Can you explain Read More.

Second generations plague immigration Children of Maghrebi immigrants in France are unemployed in record numbers. Compared to French-born citizens, the number of second-generation North Africans, within 10 years of finishing high school who are unemployed is double that of their native born peers. A level of disparity exists between young people “Made in France” and Read More.

Second-generation immigrants in the Italian schools are on the increase In the Italian schools, nearly 60% of pupils of foreign origin were born in Italy: equal to almost 479,000 out of a total of about 815,000 foreign students. Their number is continuously increasing. In the last five years (from 2011/2012 to 2015/2016) it grew by 43.2%, while over the previous Read More.

4 characteristics of second-generation immigrants In 2015, France recorded 7,3 million second-generation immigrants. This amounts to 11% of the country’s total population. At least, that is the data recently released by France’s national institute of statistics, INSEE. Four relevant characteristics of these immigrants emerged in the report. 1) The majority are very young. In fact, 47% is Read More.