How come italy is filled with eastern european immigrants.

Question

im just curious.britain is filled with indian immigrants and france is filled with arab immigrants.isnt germany closer to eastern europe than italy geographicly i mean you can walk or drive your car to germany from serbia or slovakia.well tell me the reason what is the main attraction that caused alot of people the area to go to italy.im not racist all i want to know is like the reason of it.im not saying that its a bad thing even though most slavs cause corruption in italy but thats not the reason.so dont get rid of it i just want to know whats the main attraction for eastern europeans.

Answer 1

People go where there is (or supposed to be) chance to find a work and a better life; even if Italians themselves seem to forget it, unemployment rate in Italy is below EU average and lower than in Germany or France and if you consider only Northern Italy, then is as low as in the UK. That doesn't mean all the immigrants find what their looking for, hence the problem with people falling into a life of crime; but factories in North East, for instance, are still looking for workers and Italians seems not interested in.

Anyway, it's not a unique situation: for instance remember in the UK there are A LOT of Polish, lot more than in Italy and just little less (in percentage) than in Germany.