Italy has the highest immigrant
population growth among 57 North America, Europe and Asia states
and it needs 'more coordination' for immigrant integration, a
report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD) announced on Monday in Rome.
Italy registered nearly triple the number of immigrants
from 2001 to 2011, at 9% of the overall population making the
country the leader, along with Spain, in immigrant growth.
The OECD report cited Italy as needing "better defined and
more efficient coordination for integration policies between
local and sub-national levels", calling the areas of
anti-discrimination measures, language training and job market
as "less developed" due to an increase in immigration numbers
and "lack of coordination" at national, regional and local
levels.
According to the report, between 2011 and 2012, immigrants
totaled 4.5 million people.
More than half of immigrants to Italy came from Albania,
Romania,and the Yugosphere, initially for employment and then
family unification and humanitarian reasons.
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