Family migration and political discourses about Argentinean migration flows in the Veneto region (Italy)

ANA IRENE ROVETTA CORTES

Turín

Conferencia; ESA Conference 2013; 2013

Università di Torino

This paper aims to analyze political discourses about Argentinean migration that have been developed in recent years in the Veneto region (Italy) and their impact on the daily life of Argentinean families living in the region.Historically, migration flows between these countries have been significant. In the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, the direction of the flow was North-South (from the euro-Mediterranean country to Argentina), while in the last forty years, the direction of migration flows would have been inverted, from South to North.The Italian State has facilitated access to formal citizenship to descendants of Italian migrants, due to the recognition of the ius sanguinis right. Taking into account the processes of decentralization of the Italian state, the Italian regions are a privileged area to research. The case of the Veneto region is significant because it was the first region to develop specific measures to define and facilitate migration (defined as "return migration") of descendants of second and third generation of Italian and/or Veneto emigrants. From the initial analysis of a series of interviews with families (in which the members have Argentinean citizenship and live in the Veneto region) we study the impact of these policies on their daily lives.