Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
From March 1997 following the outbreak of the Albanian unrest, Italy instituted a strict patrol of the Adriatic in an attempt to curb Albanian immigration. As a result, many Albanian immigrants in Italy do not have a legal status. Out of an estimated 150,000 Albanian immigrants in Italy in 1998, only some 82,000 were registered with authorities ...
Italy reacted to the migration pressure by introducing the "Martelli" law, stipulating that any immigrant who could prove that he or she had come into the country before the end of 1989 be granted a two-year residency permit. From March 1997, Italy instituted a strict patrol of the Adriatic in an attempt to curb Albanian immigration. As a ...
The Arbëreshë (pronounced [aɾbəˈɾɛʃ]; Albanian: Arbëreshët e Italisë; Italian: Albanesi d'Italia), also known as Albanians of Italy or Italo-Albanians, are an Albanian ethnolinguistic group minority historically settled in Southern and Insular Italy (in the regions of Abruzzo, Apulia, Basilicata, Campania, and Molise, but mostly concentrated in the regions of Calabria and Sicily).
Italy's prime minister on Monday vowed to push ahead with a plan to deport irregular migrants to camps built in Albania, which has been stalled by national judges, saying the government had a ...
In 2021, around 6,260,000 people residing in Italy have an immigration background (around the 10.6% of the total Italian population). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Starting from the early 1980s, until then a linguistically and culturally homogeneous society, Italy began to attract substantial flows of foreign immigrants.
Her government’s approach to border control has witnessed a 60% drop in arrivals by sea over the past year, and includes a processing deal with Albania which has been compared to the Rwanda scheme.
Hadji Alia – Albanian pirate lord [21] [22] Theodore Bua – Albanian captain of stradioti regiments of the Republic of Venice; Demetrio Reres – Calabrian nobleman [23] Graitzas Palaiologos – Commander of the Byzantine garrison; Gjon Markagjoni – Albanian Catholic clan chieftain; Khoja Zufar – Captain, governor, merchant and General ...
The emigrants had been part of a large migration of Albanians to Italy during the 1997 Albanian civil unrest, that began after the collapse of several large-scale pyramid schemes. To prevent the unauthorized entry of migrants into Italy, the Italian Navy set up a procedure to board Albanian vessels whenever encountered, implementing a de facto ...