Ricerc@Sapienza

The research objective that we want to explore concerns the phenomenon of mixed marriages in Italy. Indeed, in the last years (especially from EU enlargement in 2007), Italian territory is characterized, for its geographical and cultural position, to be one of the European countries with the largest number of foreign residents: suffice it to say that from 2008 to 2016 the increase is equal to +46.4 percentage points.

Today immigration is one of the main topics of public debate not only at national level. A effective management and the development of adequate social policies also pass from the assessment of the integration processes, but integration is a complex, dynamic, time-varying concept in space, linked to historical-political circumstances and to the characteristics assumed by the phenomenon migratory.