Law school, Parma third province by the number of foreign students in the class

It is urgent to recognize Italian citizenship to minors born and raised in our country and to support schools in their inclusion paths. Save The Children is asking for this, recalling that “with the start of the school year, almost a million students of foreign origin are ready to return to class, 65.4% of them were born in Italy. In nursery schools they are 81%. But 58.7% of second-generation adolescents think of a future far from Italy”.
“The current citizenship law, thirty years old, no longer captures the country we encounter every time we enter a classroom. For years, together with many civic organizations, we have been asking Parliament to review this law to give full citizenship to boys and girls who are born or arrive as children in our country” says Raffaella Milano, research director of Save the Children.

“Over the years, school – he added – has become the main meeting place for students with different origins and, although often with few means, today it represents the main training ground for citizenship”. The students of foreign origin who populate Italian schools are 65.4% boys, girls and adolescents born in Italy. In Veneto and Umbria the percentage of those born in our country is the highest, reaching 71.2% and 69.9% respectively. Among children in nursery schools, however, the percentage reaches 81%. More than two hundred countries of origin: Romania in the lead, followed by Albania, Morocco, China, Ukraine. 44.4% of students with non-Italian citizenship are of European origin. The presence of foreign minors is not homogeneous across the country, but is concentrated in the Northern regions (65.2%), followed by the Centre (23.3%) and the South (11.5%).

In absolute terms, Lombardy has the highest number of students with non-Italian citizenship (231,819), while in percentage terms, Emilia Romagna has the highest value on the total number of students (18.4%). Also in percentage terms, Save The Children concludes, the provinces with the highest value of students of foreign origin are Prato (28%), Piacenza (25.2%) and Parma (21.3%).