Abstract
The year 2000 may have marked the modernization of integration politics in Italy, but immigration has been central to Italian politics while integration, a secondary component of general immigration politics, has received significantly less political and academic attention. Scholars of racial and ethnic integration in Europe have documented Italy’s fragmented integration model, as being characterized by: social programs designed to help people; the separation of public and voluntary sectors; a paternalistic voluntary sector allowing little space for immigrant self-representation; a lack of continuity; and difficulties in obtaining citizenship. Until 2000, immigration politics focused not on qualitative issues regarding the transformation of Italian society, but on quantitative questions concerning Italy’s social and economic capacity to absorb migrants.
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