Angela Paparusso

Italian National Research Council | CNR · Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies (CNR-IRPPS)

Obiettivo di questo contributo è offrire un inquadramento della situazione demografica italiana dell’ultimo ventennio nel contesto del clima di incertezza politica, sociale ed economica globale scaturito dalla pandemia di COVID-19 e dalla guerra in Ucraina. Il quadro che emerge è abbastanza preoccupante: il processo di invecchiamento demografico si...

Due to a lack of relevant data, very few empirical studies have examined the changes in and stability of secondary migration intentions. We aim to fill this gap by analysing return migration intentions among international migrants in Italy. Data are drawn from the cross‐sectional SCIF survey conducted by ISTAT in 2011–2012. Our findings reveal that...

Subjective well-being (SWB) is emerging as an important measure of individual and societal progress. Among the many individual factors associated with SWB, the quality of the neighbourhood is recently receiving growing attention as a factor shaping self-reported life satisfaction in contemporary societies. However, to the best of our knowledge, stu...

This report provides an overview of existing theoretical and empirical findings regarding the drivers of international migration and how they operate differently across contexts, interacting with each other. The study of the migration drivers is intended as one of the elements of the formulation of FUME’s future international migration narratives a...

Children of immigrants are generally disadvantaged in terms of educational outcomes in most European countries and this remains true even after controlling for their socioeconomic status. Factors affecting the long‐term educational careers among children of immigrants and natives have been broadly investigated in the literature, although limited at...

amongst the social consequences of an increase in the immigrant population, the one which seems most interesting and rich of cultural and political implications with regard to well-being is represented by the phenomenon of multilingualism. The need to welcome and integrate an increasingly higher number of speakers of other languages within societie...

This chapter offers state-of-the-art research on self-reported life satisfaction as a subjective measure of immigrant integration, showing the most significant research findings and methodological challenges. To this end, the Chapter presents an empirical comparative analysis of self-reported life satisfaction among first-generation immigrants livi...

This Chapter analyses the growing importance taken by subjective well-being in the social sciences in the last fifteen years. It provides a definition of subjective well-being and of its main components, paying particular attention to the different concepts they represent. Moreover, it illustrates how subjective well-being is acquiring centrality i...

This final Chapter summarizes the Book providing key takeaways. It reflects on the importance of increasing the conceptual clarity of indicators of subjective well-being to improve targeted policy interventions. In particular, it reiterates the importance of using a rational evaluation of one’s overall life according to personal criteria for the pu...

This Chapter aims to disentangle the European Union (EU) framework on immigrant integration by analysing the EU integration governance, assessing the current state of play and providing guidance for some future steps towards a more inclusive society. First, I provide a definition of integration given by the EU, while highlighting the importance of...

The topic of immigrants’ subjective well-being is particularly understudied in Italy, an important country of immigration in the European context and the Mediterranean region. This Chapter is aimed at measuring the main individual factors associated with self-reported life satisfaction among first-generation immigrants regularly residing in Italy,...

Although research on objective dimensions of the integration of children with a migrant background, with a particular focus on educational attainment, has been receiving increasing attention, indicators of subjective well-being remain still little explored in Italy. This chapter aims to fill this gap by exploring the relationship between subjective...

This Chapter aims to analyse immigrant integration policies in Europe. The ‘traditional national models of immigration and integration’, which for decades have oriented the integration of immigrants in Europe, have been gradually blurred by the European convergence towards civic integration—that is policies asking immigrants to demonstrate their kn...

Nel decennio tra gli anni Settanta e Ottanta del secolo scorso, il sistema migratorio europeo venne interessato da un significativo cambiamento nella sua organizzazione spaziale. I paesi dell’Europa mediterranea, in particolare Spagna e Italia, che fino a pochi anni addietro erano le principali zone di origine dell’immigrazione presente nella regio...

This miscellaneous book is an excellent example of how to deal with a classical topic of Demography – population ageing and its consequences – in an original way. Three lines of research are addressed in the book: 1) the ageing of populations and the consequent transformations of life stages, defined according to social groups and to gender categor...

This topical book sheds light on immigrants’ subjective well-being by analysing the main factors associated with self-reported life satisfaction among immigrants and natives. It thereby draws upon subjective components of well-being, which are now receiving growing attention in well-being research. It also fills in a gap in migration research, whic...

Using data from the survey on “Social Condition and Integration of Foreign Citizens” collected by the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) in 2011–2012, the aim of this paper is to study immigrants’ subjective well‐being in Italy, evaluating the main individual factors associated with self‐reported life satisfaction among first‐generati...

Despite some methodological challenges, studying self-reported life satisfaction among immigrants in Europe offers an innovative and complementary approach to classical studies of immigrants’ integration based on objective indicators. In particular, immigrants’ self-reported life satisfaction appears a way to grasp and explain the mechanism at work...

Come conseguenza di una fecondità stabilmente al di sotto del livello di sostituzione (2,1 figli per donna), gli interventi in tema di politiche familiari, allo scopo di aumentare il numero delle nascite, sono molto cresciuti in Europa negli ultimi anni. Nel 2001 solo un terzo dei paesi europei dichiarava di avere politiche in questa direzione, nel...

Abstract The acquisition of citizenship status in the new country of residence may depend on (1) the individual immigrant’s characteristics, (2) the structural characteristics of both the origin and the destination countries and (3) institutional factors in the destination country including policy factors, specifically the national citizenship poli...

Una fecondità inferiore al livello di sostituzione per un lungo periodo di tempo determina cambiamenti profondi nella struttura per età di una popolazione, mettendo in discussione importanti meccanismi di funzionamento della società interessata. Questa generalizzata situazione di fecondità al di sotto del livello di sostituzione delle generazioni h...

According to 2016 municipal register data, Italy has the highest number of Indians in continental Europe (151,000), followed by Spain (41,000). Mass immigration from India to Italy and Spain started in the 1990s, but economic and political environments more conducive to the entry and permanent settlement of immigrants have resulted in more rapid gr...

E' importante sicuramente guardare agli aspetti problematici della questione migratoria, ma bisogna guardare alle popolazioni extra-comunitarie come ad un insieme di popolazioni estremamente importanti e diverse da noi che stanno percorrendo con metodi e con tecniche moderne dei cammini che noi abbiamo percorso con tempi più lunghi e con tecniche p...

Investigating future migration intentions as a proxy of future migration behaviours is useful to capture a more complete understanding of the entire migration process. This also allows a fuller consideration of the policy implications of these intentions for the origin and destination countries. The aim of this paper is to analyse the individual fa...

L’immigrazione è uno dei temi maggiormente al centro del dibattito politico attuale. Alessio Buonomo e Angela Paparusso hanno focalizzato la loro attenzione su tre aspetti: presenze irregolari, regolarizzazioni e rimpatri. Attraverso le sanatorie e i decreti flussi, l’Italia ha gradualmente riassorbito il fenomeno della irregolarità che riguardava...

L’Italia è divenuta un paese di immigrazione relativamente di recente: si può convenire nel 1973-1974, quando, a seguito della guerra del Kippur e della crisi economica internazionale, i paesi di più antica immigrazione chiusero le proprie frontiere e abbandonarono le politiche attive di reclutamento di lavoratori stranieri. Nonostante gli effetti...

Aim of this paper is to measure the effect of demographic, human capital and ‘immigration’ variables on the self-reported life satisfaction of young and adult immigrants residing in seven European countries, using the Immigrant Citizens Survey (ICS). Self-reported life satisfaction has been used to evaluate the immigrants’ integration within their...

Le dinamiche migratorie e i processi di integrazione sono ormai diventate un elemento costitutivo della società italiana. A questi temi i ricercatori e gli associati dell ' Istituto di Ricerche sulla Popolazione e le Politiche Sociali del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche hanno dedicato il presente volume, analizzando i due fenomeni dai seguenti p...

Using data from the Statistics on Income and living conditions of families with migrants carried out by ISTAT in 2009, we empirically examine the effect of micro level determinants on Moroccans’ return migration intentions. Although Moroccans living in Italy do not have a clear aspiration to return, the socio-economic and work conditions in Italy d...

Il 60esimo anniversario dei Trattati di Roma non è stata solo l’occasione per riflettere sul futuro dell’Unione europea, ma è stato anche il momento dei bilanci: sui metodi di governo, sui risultati raggiunti, sulle crisi odierne e sulla maturità, non solo demografica, del suo progetto e della sua costruzione istituzionale.

La capacità dell’Unione europea di fornire risposte unitarie ed efficaci alla crisi migratoria si è rivelata alquanto limitata. A livello locale, invece, le buone pratiche di accoglienza e integrazione dei rifugiati, sono molte, e rappresentano una risposta concreta a chi si domanda se la richiesta di protezione internazionale sia sostenibile per i...

Due to a series of events that have highlighted the lack of integration and the socio-economic marginalization of populations with immigrant background, European countries have converged towards the civic integration, which requires migrants to learn the language, the civic values and the culture of the residence country. The aim of this work is to...

This paper analyzes the impact of Italian immigration policies on migrants’ lives. Policies and changes in policies can affect migrants’ capabilities to stabilize themselves in the host country, in terms of legal residence and secure labor conditions, as well as their chances of becoming part of the host society. We argue that, together with border...

This work aims to study the effectiveness of immigration policies, empirically measuring if policies shape immigration and on what extent they can be considered restrictive. Secondly, we intend to explore how much immigration policies, among other factors, have an impact on migration inflows. Our study focuses on Italy, as one of the EU member stat...

Starting from an analysis of the migration policies enacted by the European Union before 2011, this work aims to understand how European countries managed the North Mediterranean’s situation after the events of Arab Spring, and which kind of policies has been adopted by them. A particular attention is devoted to Italy, as one of major Mediterranean...

Recentemente il tema dell’efficacia delle politiche migratorie è tornato al centro del dibattito scientifico. Come suggeriscono Czaika e de Haas (2013), per far luce sull’argomento, appare utile identificare degli strumenti volti a stabilire una relazione di causa-effetto tra il volume dei flussi migratori e le politiche di immigrazione. Per tale m...

The current configuration of the European Union is the result of the overtaking of national borders and of the strict interpretation of the sovereignty principle. The economic, monetary, political and human integration that characterizes the European Union today could not have been achieved if national borders had been maintained. This article cons...