Search ACLI: the province of Cagliari among the first in Italy for the increase in migrant remittances

The Acli of Cagliari have done a search on migration flows and on the depopulation in Sardinia, which will be published in the coming days and presented in August during a Conference to be held in Gesico.

Taking into account the data on remittances, that is, the money that foreign workers send to their families in countries of origin, It appears that in 2013 the economic crisis has continued to affect the delivery of external savings of immigrants (nannies, domestic employee, farm workers and laborers who often have left hundreds of thousands of kilometers from Sardinia a part of their lives).

Data distribution by province highlights the contribution in terms of resources listed at home, euros that turn into local currency in China, Morocco, Romania, Ukraine, or in other States.

Our data shows that the largest number of foreigners residing in the province of Sassari *(42,3%), with a share of remittances per capita than 3.285 Euro, but the largest percentage of increase of remittances to foreign countries during the period 2007/2013 comes from the province of Cagliari, In contrast to other provinces and to the first places in Italy.

For Mauro Paper, provincial President of Acli of Cagliari, data on remittances are very difficult to quantify, as they relate to many small transactions through a variety of channels, sometimes informal.

Considered this, However, it is clear that remains in most of Sardinia’ 80% What immigrants earn, a key resource for our economy.

22 July 2014

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