The 60.7% employment rate of non-EU
foreign workers last year was closer to the 61.5% rate of the
totality of workers in Italy yet nearly one foreigner in four
who sought the assistance of a Caritas centre was a "working
poor", or 28.1%, according to the annual report drafted by the
Catholic charity and the Migrantes foundation published on
Wednesday.
Overall, between 2019 and 2023, the demand for immigrant workers
increased significantly with the percentage of foreign workers
among new hires rising from 13.6% in 2019 to 19.2% in 2023, said
the 33rd Immigration Report 2024 drafted by Caritas and
Migrantes.
The number of foreign residents increased in 2023 with 5.3
million non-EU citizens stably residing in Italy as of January
2024, up 3.2% on the previous year
And recent studies, the report also noted, suggested that in the
world of social media the "rise in migrant and refugee arrivals
was among the main factors leading to the incitement of hatred"
with young foreigners more exposed to online bullying compared
to their Italian peers.
"The result was that 49.5% of young foreigners said they were
the victim of at least one offensive, disrespectful and/or
violent incident committed by another youth over the month
before the survey against 42.4% of their Italian peers", the
study said
Misogyny was the most widespread form of online hatred with one
in two foreign girls sayng they had endured some form of
gender-based abuse.
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