ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the South-European model of integration of immigrants into the labour market with particular regard to Italy, Spain and Portugal, and with a special focus on people from Eastern Europe, North Africa and Latin America. It is based on an exploratory cross-national analysis of the Eurostat Labour Force Survey (LFS) microdata for 2007 and 2012 which enable us to evaluate the impact of the economic crisis. The chapter considers two dimensions of the incorporation of immigrants into Southern European labour markets: the risk of unemployment, and the chances of accessing high-skilled non-manual jobs. It outlines the main features of the South-European model of immigration. The chapter shows the main characteristics of Latin American, North African and East European immigrants in Italy, Spain and Portugal. It provides evidence of the common pattern of labour-market insertion of the different groups of immigrants in the three countries, and discusses the impact of the crisis.
