Italian migrants in Bogota at work between global and local dynamics

Journal title MONDI MIGRANTI
Author/s Grazia Moffa, Domenico Maddaloni
Publishing Year 2024 Issue 2024/3
Language Italian Pages 23 P. 115-137 File size 228 KB
DOI 10.3280/MM2024-007
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The debate on increasing mobility from advanced societies in the current stage of globalization has often focused on the high level of education of many among the new migrants. This is also true of recent migrations from our country. However, this is only one of the connotations of these new migration flows, in which factors at different levels of social analysis are at play. To understand these new features of migration from Italy, this article examines the work experiences of some Italian immigrants in Bogota, Colombia, interviewed in the first half of 2020. The results obtained prompt the hypothesis that recent Italian migration to this Latin American metropolis is a composite phenomenon from the point of view of labor insertion, although distinguished by a relatively limited variety of social conditions.

Keywords: new Italian migration; Colombia; skilled migration; migrant workers; qualitative research.

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Grazia Moffa, Domenico Maddaloni, Il lavoro dei migranti italiani a Bogotà tra dinamiche globali e locali in "MONDI MIGRANTI" 3/2024, pp 115-137, DOI: 10.3280/MM2024-007