The number of immigrants in Sardinia shows a slight decline: -1.9% compared to four ago. According to the Mete 2023 report, carried out by the Permanent Observatory on the demographic condition on migratory flows and on the conditions of migration in Sardinia (Department of Work and Emigration and CREI Acli) presented today in Cagliari, the presence of immigrants is distributed as follows: three out of four live between the provinces of Cagliari (31.2%) and Sassari (42.1%).
The majority of them are women, 25,737. The highest female percentage is found in the province of Oristano, 60.4% of foreign residents. Followed by that of Nuoro, with 53.5%, that of Sassari with 53.2%, the province of Southern Sardinia and the metropolitan city of Cagliari, 50%.
The Romanian community is the largest with over 11 thousand presences.
According to figures from the Ministry of the Interior, the migrants present in the region's reception facilities (data relating to the end of 2022) were a total of 1,539 (1,041 the previous year), out of 107,268 migrants welcomed at a national level. This is 1.4% of the total. Of these, 259 were included in the SAI reception and integration system and 1280 in extraordinary reception centres.
In Sardinia there has been an increase in the number of places available in active reception projects in the last year: 351 compared to the previous 266. Among these, 44 are dedicated to unaccompanied foreign minors (MSNA) and 307 are ordinary. In 2020, foreign-born taxpayers in Sardinia numbered 41,132, 3.9% of taxpayers against a national average of 10.1%. Foreign taxpayers declared an income amounting to 500 million euros. The social security contributions paid, however, amount to 100 million.
«The crisis continues - this is the summary of the ACLI experts - and the foreign presence in Sardinia is reduced in number and quality. Choices for family reunification and signs of new births are decreasing, and requests for Italian citizenship are decreasing. In domestic collaboration, Italian nationality prevails over foreign nationality."
(Unioneonline/ss)
