Filipino Italians

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Filipino Italian
Total population
108,000
Regions with significant populations
Throughout Italy. Plurality in Milan, Rome, Bologna, Florence, Modena, Turin
Languages
Italian  · Filipino  · Philippine languages  ·(Visayan  · Kapampangan  · Pangasinan) · English
Religion
Predominantly Roman Catholicism
Related ethnic groups
Filipinos  · Overseas Filipinos

Filipino Italians are Italians who are either migrants or descendants of migrants from the Philippines. Filipinos form the fifth-largest migrant community in Italy, after the Romanian, Albanian, North African communities and Ukrainians. [1] Italy is one of the largest European migration destination for Filipinos, the others being the UK and Spain. [2] The Italian capital Rome and the city of Milan is home to the largest Filipino community. [2] Roughly 108,000 documented Filipinos reside in Italy as temporary workers or permanent residents, and estimates on the number of undocumented Filipinos vary widely from 20,000 to 80,000. [2] [3] In 2008, ISTAT (Istituto Nazionale di Statistica), Italy’s statistics office, reported that there were 113,686 documented Filipinos living in Italy whereas the number had been 105,675 in 2007. [4]

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Filipinos today

63% of Filipino Italians are women, [2] and they mostly work as domestic assistants. [1] The Filipino Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) says that Italy allows 5000 non-seasonal/regular workers, up from 3000 in 2007. [5] The DOLE said that the change was "a sign of appreciation of the good bilateral cooperation with the Philippines in migratory issues." [5] There are approximately 60 Filipino organisations in Italy, most of which are church-based, although there are several cultural and civic groups as well. [6] One of such groups is the Filipino Women's Council with the aim of educating Filipino women migrants about their rights and lobbying on their behalf. [7]

In 2007, Italy gave Filipinos with a Filipino driver's license a free Italian driver's license. [8]

Remittances

In 2007, Filipinos in Italy sent the equivalent of US$500 million back to the Philippines, making it the fourth-largest source of remittances after the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Canada. [9] The town of Mabini in Batangas has extensively benefited from Italian Filipinos; the town has the most former residents living abroad than any other Filipino town or city. [10] Most of those living abroad work in Italy, and a section of Mabini today that has large homes built from remittance money is named "Little Italy". [10] However, due to the economic slump in 2008, remittance money from Italy grew at a much slower pace than usual. [11]

Notable Filipinos of Italian descent

Notable Filipinos in Italy

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Remittance</span> Money transfer by a foreign worker to their home country

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Filipinos in the United Arab Emirates are migrants or descendants of the Filipinos living in the United Arab Emirates. 679,819 Filipinos live in the UAE, of which 450,000 live in Dubai, and they form 6.1% of the whole UAE population, and they form 21.3% of the population of Dubai. Dubai is home to the largest population of Filipinos in the UAE, followed by Abu Dhabi and Al Ain. In 2007, Filipinos in the UAE sent more than US$500 million in remittances back to the Philippines.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Filipinos in Saudi Arabia</span>

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Department of Migrant Workers</span> Executive department of the Philippine government

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  4. ↑ "80,000 more Filipinos in Italy in 2008". ABS CBN News. 9 August 2009. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
  5. 1 2 Uy, Veronica (18 December 2007). "More jobs for Filipinos in Italy, says DoLE". Global Nation. Archived from the original on 22 February 2008. Retrieved 19 January 2009.
  6. ↑ "PGMA's Italy visit brightens hope for early accord on 3 RP proposals on Filipino workers". Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs. 2006. Archived from the original on January 8, 2009. Retrieved 19 January 2009.
  7. ↑ "Life in Italy is no Dolce Vita". Isis International. 8 May 2007. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
  8. ↑ "OFWs in Italy receive 2 unexpected gifts during President's visit". PLDT. 2007. Archived from the original on 13 December 2009. Retrieved 19 January 2009.
  9. ↑ "International research institute studies Filipino Women's remittances from Italy". PhilFortune. 17 April 2007. Retrieved 19 January 2009.
  10. 1 2 Conde, Carlos (16 December 2005). "Filipinos count cost of remittance society". IHT. Archived from the original on 19 November 2008. Retrieved 19 January 2009.
  11. ↑ Rimando, Lala (15 December 2008). "Global slowdown drags October remittances to weakest pace". ABS-CBN News. Retrieved 19 January 2009.; Arnaldo Mauri, Remittances from Italy to developing countries, Quaderni n. 12, 1996, Abstract
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