The Italian emigrant today
Some figures on Italian emigration:
PLACINGS :
There are approximately 1.360.000 italian emigrates in Argentina, which is therefore the country with the highest concentration of our emigrants. Germany, France, Brazil and United States of America follow in the order.
SHARES :
More than 60% of marriages are between people of the same country. The same percentage still retains the Italian citizenship. Almost 90% of Italians abroad keep steadily in contact with Italy. The same percentage feels the need to receive more informations about Italian situation. Less than 10% is in favour of a cultural integration with the host country. We may as well consider that parallel figures are likely to be surveyed in a statistic on emigration inside our country.
It is clear therefore that emigrants are willing to retain as much as possible their own social and cultural roots.
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