ABSTRACT
A huge array of personal motivations is usually hiding behind the customary labels of economic migration or forced migration. Migrants, indeed, form a network of potential contacts that can be utilized in a developed country and that could presumably benefit economic entities in the host country. The depletion of human resources for countries of origin almost always affects the indirect advantages connected to migratory fluxes. A depletion of human resources is also, for obvious reasons, an impoverishment of the very fabric of society in terms of a relational network. Social tension that is further fuelled by the state of exclusion that characterizes the immigrants’ situation. The eruption of migratory dynamics, indeed, has constituted a logical supposition for a genuine political revolution that has involved most Western countries. The social representation of the tension linked to migratory pressure is rather varied in public discourse within host countries, especially in Europe.
