Rome (NEV), September 14, 2018 – 826,000 foreign citizens enrolled in the 2016/2017 school year, about one tenth (9.4%) of the total school population, according to the data released by the IDOS Study and Research Center in the 2018 Immigration Statistical Dossier, which will be distributed from October 25 in all Italian Regions and Autonomous Provinces.
The 2018 Immigration Statistical Dossier is edited by the IDOS Study and Research Center, in partnership with the Confronti Study Center, and with the contribution of the Eight per thousand funds of the Methodist and Waldensian churches.
The incidence of foreign students is growing (+11,200 and + 1.4%), also due to the constant aging of the Italian population. However, even among foreigners, births are gradually decreasing and, if until today the presence of migrant children compensated for the decrease of the national school population, at present foreign students no longer balance the loss in progress and the total number of registered students fell in a single year of 85,000 units (-1.0%).
More than half of the foreign students (56.6%) are divided between nursery school (20.0%) and primary school (36.6%), which are attended by the 11% of the whole students population; while less than a quarter (23.2%) attended high school, where they accounted for only the 7.1% of all students. Most students, also due to the greater difficulties of insertion and performing at high school, frequently choose professional institutes.
Although 190 nationalities are represented among them, more than half are young Romanians (158,000), Albanians (112,000), Moroccans (102,000) and Chinese (49,500). The regions with the highest attendance in schools are: Emilia Romagna (15.8%), Lombardy (14.7%), Umbria (13.8%), Tuscany (13.4%) and Piedmont (13,0%).
But the most important datum is the ever-increasing share of foreign students who were born in Italy, the so-called “second generations”, who often recognize Italian as their mother tongue, live with and like Italian peers and feel Italian in every respect, sharing everything except citizenship. If in the 2007/2008 school year there were only a third (34.7%) foreign students, in 2016/2017 they are more than half a million, three-fifths (60.9%) of the total. Compared to the previous school year they increased by 12.9% (+57.600).
Luca Di Sciullo, IDOS President, spoke about the growing difficulties coming from these identities not recognized by law and split between two cultural worlds of reference: the migrant family of origin and the Italian society. The priority is to face the need of managing their identity conflict to avoid its explosion once they’ll leave school and try to enter society. A task – concluded Di Sciullo – which requires the collaboration of all the other training agencies (families, associations, sport groups, etc)
For more information:
IDOS Research and Study Center tel .: 06.66514345; e-mail: idos@dossierimmigrazione.it; www.dossierimmigrazione.it
Confronti Study Center: tel .: 06.4820503; e-mail: info@confronti.net; www.confronti.net
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