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Does the law provides for legalizing the situation of illegal immigrants in order to ensure their right to work and access to social protection and care?

Code:
RED62
Key Area:
Employment
Strand(s):
Equality
24/02/2012 - 17:46
Short Answer

No

Qualitative Info

There is not a law which provides for the legalizing of illegal immigrants in order to ensure their rights. Nonetheless there are some special and extraordinary measures adopted by the government in order to legalise the illegal immigrants present on the Italian territory. The last one was he regularisation measure launched in August 2009 through law decree n° 78/2009 (art.1 ter) turned into law n. 102/2009. This measure provided for the regularization of domestic workers. This is only one of the activities of foreigners. Indeed there are other important categories (i.e building industry and agricultural workers, self-employment…). In Italy the biggest “sanatatoria” took place in 2002.


Source:

Testo unico delle disposizioni concernenti la disciplina dell'immigrazione e norme sulla condizione dello straniero (Dlgs 286/1998)

http://www.interno.it/mininterno/export/sites/default/it/sezioni/servizi/legislazione/immigrazione/legislazione_200.html

Cesareo V. (ed.), The Sixteenth Italian Report on Migrations 2010, McGrawHill, 2011

Groups affected/interested Migrants
Type (R/D)
Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas Employment - labour market, Health and social protection
External Url http://www.interno.it/mininterno/export/sites/default/it/sezioni/servizi/legislazione/immigrazione/legislazione_200.html
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