Trends in international migration between Northern Africa and Europe are reviewed. The authors identify three main phases of this migration, which are the pre-colonial, the colonial, and the period since independence. Particular attention is given to migration trends since the development of policies restricting immigration by most European countries following the economic down-turn of the mid-1970s, and in Italy and Spain toward the end of the 1980s. (ANNOTATION)
Trends in international migration in the Mediterranean European countries over the course of the 1980s are reviewed. "Particular attention is paid to the different factors that explain the arrival of these migratory fluxes during a period of economic recession and in areas where there is a co-presence of immigration, emigration and unemployment. The involvement of southern European countries as target countries for immigration is not seen as a simple consequence of the [restrictive policies] practiced in the Seventies by European countries with traditional immigration; the push towards these countries as well as the pull to the same are also considered, particularly the acceleration of the internationalization process of the labor markets, the characteristics of the labor markets, and processes of segmentation and tertiarization." (EXCERPT)
Recent international migration trends affecting Italy are reviewed. Particular attention is given to the adequacy of available statistics on immigration to Italy. A summary of findings from some recent regional studies is included.
