Abstract

GRASSO, María Andrea. Southamerican Migration in Italy: Labour Market Effects. Trab. soc. [online]. 2010, n.14. ISSN 1514-6871.

South American are neither the most numerous  nor preoccupant migrations for the Italian government. Maybe that is the reason why they are not the most studied ones.  However, since the seventy decade, South American economies- one day mainly  receptives of inmigrants-, turned into emigration countries, being Italy one of the first chosen destiny to live. This work try to find out what kind of work the immigrants do, in what way they do it, and which contribution they do for Italian economy . The developing of this work was triggered by the Nord Ligue advertisement for 2008 political elections. In this advice, there was a Sioux Indian and the text said: "they suffered immigration before", in reference to the immigration negative effects. My interest was to analyze  these socio economic effects,  limited to our subcontinent population. This investigation is based on a personal experience of one year as a researcher, a flexi-worker, an  Italian of second generation, and a person involved who was in an informal net of contacts. It is identified the existence of complementary effects in the labour market which include different types of market entrance, labour trajectories and characteristics of work. For the principal segment it is identified different entrance barriers related to the process of typification of " the other" that inevitably leads to exclusion.

Keywords : Immigrants; Labour market; Segmentation; Conflict; Welfare state; Flexicurity.

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