Aspetti e problemi statistici

[Autom. eng. transl.] This Report intends to constitute an information and updating tool, which is not unique and not exhaustive, which is fueled above all by experiences, analyzes and research carried out within the Cariplo Foundation for Initiatives and the Study on Multi-ethnicity. The migration issue is tackled starting from the lesson that comes from the now extensive and consolidated amount of studies and research carried out at the international level, which highlight the need to adopt at least three interpretations to understand with sufficient approximation what is happening in the countries of ancient and recent immigration. The first of these concerns the historical dimension. In fact, it cannot be forgotten that the whole of human history is also a history of migrations which have also presented different connotations over the centuries. The second key to interpretation, offered by the accumulated knowledge on migration, can be identified in the procedural configuration that is specific to them. The third refers to the global dimension - assumed in the contemporary world by geo-political, cultural and social phenomena - which leads to a quantitative / qualitative mutation of the phenomena themselves. The Report is organized into three thematic areas: the first, the "general framework", provides the basic data of the phenomenon; the second, the "areas of attention", allows us to understand the trends present in the crucial aspects of the migration phenomenon; the third part, "emerging themes", helps to grasp what is new also in our country.