The Romanian Immigrant from Italy - between Integration and Discrimination. An italian Point of View Cover Image

Imigrantul român în Italia între integrare şi discriminare. Un punct de vedere italian
The Romanian Immigrant from Italy - between Integration and Discrimination. An italian Point of View

Author(s): Simion Belea
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Editura U. T. Press
Keywords: Romanian immigrants; stereotypes; prejudices; socio-cultural relationships; integration;

Summary/Abstract: The present paper aims to present the results of a study undertaken in some towns from the province of Rome, study which particulary aimed at knowing the attitudes and the perception of the Italian population towards the Romanian immigrants from Italy, the difficulties related to the cohabitation in the same socio-economical and cultural space, starting from presenting some distinctive characteristics of Romanian migration in this country. In a concrete way, this study tackled different thematic domains like: the Italians opinion regarding the numeric presence and the living of Romanians in Italy, the problems determined by the living of Romanians in Italy, the quality of the relationships with Romanian immigrants, the adjectives used by Italians to describe Romanian immigrants, the possible relationships between the presence of the Romanian immigrants and some aspects related to the evolution of the Italian society, the existence of some stereotypes and prejudices towards Romanian immigrants as well as some aspects of the integration of Romanian immigrants in Italy.

  • Issue Year: XXI/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 181-201
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Romanian