The Italian Immigration Law: the Experience with Tunisia

Abstract

Faced with the need to fill a legal vacuum that existed in the area of immigration and to deal with the entry of immigrants and policies on immigration, Italy’s centre-left government headed by Romano Prodi initiated a process of drafting a constitutional law on immigration and the status of foreigners (law of 1998). Giorgio Napolitano focuseson these developments and Article 21 of the law, which relates to the relations of the Italian government with the immigrants’ country of origin, in this case Tunisia.