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I N T R O D U C T I O N1. Immigration from Nigeria to Italy: overallviewImmigration from Nigeria has been the object of interest for Italy for abouttwenty years, but it was not such a phenomenon as to occupy the first position inthe scale of citizens staying in Italy, or for new entries.In 2001, for example, Nigeria was not even among the first 15 countries forwhich permits to stay were given during the year and Nigerians who were staying<strong>here</strong> were around 18,000 persons.Table 1 - Immigrants staying: number and increase in national groups 1991-2001CountryPresences2001% of totalimmigrantsIncrease %1991-20011 Morocco 158,094 11.6 1.892 Albania 144,120 10.6 6.583 Romania 75,377 5.5 9.134 Philippines 64,215 4.7 1.775 China 56,566 4.2 3.596 Tunisia 46,494 3.4 1.127 U,S,A, 43,650 3.2 1.058 Yugoslavia 36,614 2.7 1.379 Senegal 34,811 2.6 1.4410 Sri Lanka 34,464 2.5 2.8411 Poland 30,658 2.2 2.5312 India 29,873 2.2 3.0113 Peru 29,627 2.2 0.2714 Egypt 26,166 1.9 1.4115 United Kingdom 23,617 1.7 1.3616 Macedonia 23,142 1.7 N/A17 Bangladesh 20,127 1.5 3.6318 Brazil 18,776 1.4 1.7119 Pakistan 18,624 1.4 2.6720 Ghana 17,791 1.3 1.5721 Nigeria 17,832 1.3 3.1722 Switzerland 16,895 1.2 1.13Source: Our elaboration of Caritas data, 2002.Even if it is not, as can be seen from the table, among those countries with asignificant number of immigrants present on Italian territory, it should however be

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