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• Italy

A new report by Save The Children Italy revealed that in 2020, the national anti-trafficking system had 2,040 victims of trafficking in its care, 716 of whom were new cases that emerged during the year. The majority of cases are women, and Nigeria was the leading country of origin.

• Italy

According to a report by the Italian statistics bureau ISTAT, the pandemic caused a decrease in migration to Italy in 2020.

• Italy

Foreign-born taxpayers in Italy have paid four billion euros in IRPEF personal income tax, according to the Venice-based Leone Moressa Foundation think tank.

• Colombia
• Germany
• Turkey

The UN has called for action after an increase in people fleeing conflict and persecution despite the COVID pandemic. The number of displaced people has doubled in the last decade.

• Belgium
• Germany
• Italy

Eurostat has said that non-EU citizens residing in the bloc had an employment rate of 57.2%, lower than that of national citizens and EU nationals.

• Italy

The Italian interior ministry said the country has already surpassed 10,000 migrant arrivals in 2021, three times more than the same period last year. This figure doesn't include the 455 migrants brought to Italy by the NGO ship Sea-Watch 4.

• Myanmar (Burma)
• Burkina Faso
• Bangladesh

The UN refugee agency UNHCR has launched a new data visualization showing how climate change is contributing to drive new displacement and increase the vulnerability of those already forced to flee.

• Italy

Close to 27,000 asylum requests were filed in Italy in 2020 – 39% fewer than in 2019, according to the Italian Refugee Council. Roughly three in four asylum requests examined by Italian authorities were rejected.

• Greece
• France
• Italy

Far fewer people applied for asylum in the European Union in 2020 than in previous years. Germany, Spain and France saw the highest number of applications; Cyprus the most per capita.

• Italy

A study by the Italian chambers of commerce associations Unioncamere and Infocamere has found that one out of every ten enterprises is led by immigrants.

• Italy

More than 5,300 migrants and refugees have arrived on Italy's coasts irregularly so far in 2021. That's more than twice the number of people who arrived during the same period in 2020. Meanwhile, the number of migrants intercepted and returned to Libya reportedly also increased.

• Canary Islands
• Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Italy

The European agency Frontex reported Thursday that illegal border crossings at Europe's external borders in January fell by almost half from the previous year to about 5,800.