Immigration in Molise and Some Paths Towards Integration

AbstractThis paper moves from the idea that a deeper and more realistic knowledge of the immigration in Italy is necessarily based on local studies of this phenomenon. Above all, it is important to carefully analyze the situation of foreigners who fit into local community to find the special features of their settlement that must be taken into account in order to build and plan integration policies really effective and appropriate to the local context. In the wake of these considerations, I will introduce a brief survey on the presence and integration of foreigners in Molise region. More precisely, I will examine some recent statistics that allow to outline the main socio-demographic characteristics of the foreign population resident in the region and also to consider some aspects concerning the inclusion of foreigners in the local labor market. Finally, I will explain some events in order to point out some possible directions for the social integration of foreigners in the region. In this way, Molise could be a pilot region for the effective inclusion of immigrants