The Economic and Social Integration of Refugees in Italy - Francesca Miserocchi, Awa Ambra Seck

Описание: Network Roberto Franceschi Workshop - 11 December 2020

The Economic and Social Integration of Refugees in Italy: a Pilot Study

Francesca Miserocchi, Awa Ambra Seck
PhD candidates in Political Economy and Government, Harvard University

How does the match between city characteristics and migrants’ skills influence their social and economic outcomes? We propose to study this question in the Italian setting. The random assignment of refugees to cities, that derived from the need to restructure the reception system and from the unexpected influx of refugees in Italy from 2014 onward, allows us to study this question. In order to understand how the match between the past job history of a refugee (or asylum seeker) and the current labor market in which she is embedded has an effect on her employment and social integration outcomes, we surveyed 100 refugees and asylum seekers in different Italian cities. We collected data on their social network, beliefs on the labor market, and economic outcomes, to explore what are the determinants of integration in the labor market in Italy. This pilot study will allow us on the one hand to investigate the assignment process of refugees to cities and, on the other hand, to collect data that would provide us with preliminary evidence of refugees’ social integration and economic outcomes.

About Network Roberto Franceschi:
Each year Fondazione Roberto Franceschi Onlus awards research grants to MSC and PhD students in order to finance data collection on the issues of social distress, poverty and inequality (https://www.fondfranceschi.it/network.... The recipients become part of Network Roberto Franceschi, the transnational network of scholars formed for the purpose of carrying out and promoting scientific research in the field of study of prevention of social pathologies and forms of social exclusion, on matters pertaining to underdevelopment, marginalisation, poverty, migration and civil rights.

Thanks to Intesa Sanpaolo

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