ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the aspects that are favourable or unfavourable for the integration of immigrants in relation to the progressive implementation of the EU's migration policy. The process of insertion, integration and rejection of immigrants in Italy has been marked, by a sometimes exaggerated interpretation of the strictest points of the guidelines adopted by the EU concerning the 'countering' of irregular immigration and, by the ignorance of recommendations that are more favourable to integration. For more than 170 years Italy has been one of the countries that have experienced the most substantial emigration. Foreign immigration began at the beginning of the 1970s and it has mainly developed since the late 1980s. Differently from the 'old' immigrations, foreign immigration in Italy, similarly to other countries of Southern Europe started as a result of the so-called 'second great transformation'.
