LUIGI DI COMITE e MARIA CARMELA MICCOLI Le migrazioni e i processi di sviluppo dei paesi di origine e destinazione 208 Gennaio-Aprile 2005 Anno LXX n. 1
Summary
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importance given to the migratory phenomena occurring all over the world is more
and more evident because of their relevance both demographically (hence the
differentials existing in the TFT of the developed and developing countries) and
in economic terms (given the possible increase and promotion of economic growth
in developing countries).Consequently, in a context such as the present one in
which demographic events and economic phenomena are combined, a fundamental role
is played on a micro-level by the migrant, who comes to occupy the role of
fundamental “resource”, both for the place of origin and for the
place of destination, while on a macro level the territorial mobility of
populations, which brings in new features, regarding the natural movement of
populations, that are very different from those already rooted in the developed
countries, could play a “re-equilibrating” role in the quantitative
development of populations.Taking all these factors into account, it is worth
examining and reflecting on the role of the migratory phenomena in a well
limited area – the area that includes the countries of the EU and of the
Mediterranean Basin – which we have been methodically analysing for some years
and above all since the time when the Southern European countries started to
become more and more the areas of fina
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