Filipino Italians

Filipino Italian
Total population
108,000
Regions with significant populations
Throughout Italy. Plurality in Milan, Rome, Bologna, Florence, Modena, Turin
Languages
Italian · Filipino · Philippine languages · (Visayan · Kapampangan · Pangasinan) · English
Religion
Predominantly Roman Catholicism
Related ethnic groups
Filipinos · Overseas Filipinos

Filipino Italians are Italians who are either migrants or descendants of migrants from the Philippines. Filipinos form the fifth-largest migrant community in Italy, after the Romanian, Albanian, North African communities and Ukrainians.[1] Italy is one of the largest European migration destination for Filipinos, the others being the UK and Spain.[2] The Italian capital Rome and the city of Milan is home to the largest Filipino community.[2] Roughly 108,000 documented Filipinos reside in Italy as temporary workers or permanent residents, and estimates on the number of undocumented Filipinos vary widely from 20,000 to 80,000.[2][3] In 2008, ISTAT (Istituto Nazionale di Statistica), Italy’s statistics office, reported that there were 113,686 documented Filipinos living in Italy whereas the number had been 105,675 in 2007.[4]

  1. ^ "Filipino Migration to Europe: Country Profiles". CFMW. Archived from the original on 14 August 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2009.
  2. ^ a b c "Filipino migration" (PDF). UN. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2014. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
  3. ^ Dancel, Joshua (25 September 2002). "Get amnesty before Italy kicks you out, OFWs told". Sun Star Manila. Archived from the original on 20 April 2009. Retrieved 19 January 2009.
  4. ^ "80,000 more Filipinos in Italy in 2008". ABS CBN News. 9 August 2009. Retrieved 7 December 2012.