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Full Title
MONDI MIGRANTI
Publisher
FrancoAngeli
ISSN
1972-4888 (Printed Journal)
1972-4896 (Online Journal)
Journal Issue Number
1
Journal Issue Designation
1
Journal Issue Date
2025
Full Title
Trovano un lavoro migliore da noi? La sovraqualificazione dei laureati rumeni in Italia
By (author)
First Page
213
Last Page
243
Language of text
Italian
Publication Date
2025/04
Copyright
2025 FrancoAngeli srl
Main description
A circa un decennio dall'entrata della Romania nell'Unione Europea (UE), questa ricerca indaga il fenomeno della sovraqualificazione dei cittadini rumeni migrati in Italia prima o dopo il raggiungimento della laurea. Attraverso i dati EU-LFS 2018-2019 si conferma che i migranti provenienti dai paesi UE3 (fra cui la Romania), come noto in letteratura, hanno maggiori probabilità di essere sovraqualificati rispetto a i) i migranti provenienti da altri paesi d'origine in Europa occidentale (UE15) e ii) la popolazione locale nel paese di destinazione (Italia). In aggiunta, tale svantaggio viene testato per la prima volta anche rispetto alla popolazione locale nel paese d'origine, ovvero chi resta in Romania. Proprio il confronto con quest'ultimo gruppo permette di evidenziare quanto migrare all'estero per i laureati rumeni risulta svantaggioso in termini di sovraqualificazione. Un risultato interessante è che le laureate rumene in Italia, pur se segregate in settori occupazionali diversi dagli uomini, non subiscono un'ulteriore penalità in quanto donne (oltre a quella di essere straniere). Infine, l'Italia si distingue dagli altri paesi UE15 per i bassi ritorni all'istruzione dei migranti chi si laureano nel paese di destinazione, poiché laurearsi in Italia (anziché in Romania) non riduce l'alto rischio di sovraqualificazione.
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