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 |<span style="color:red">The better option is to look for records about the ancestor in the '''country of destination, the country they immigrated into'''.  See links to immigration records for major destination countries below.</span>
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-=== Immigration into Italy ===
-*'''Early 1200s.''' '''Waldensian emigrants from France''' moved to northern Italy as a result of religious persecution.
-*'''1431 to about 1450.''' Thousands of '''Greek and Albanian Christians''' moved into Italy as a result of persecution under the Muslim Turks. They settled in coastal areas of the Italian peninsula and in Sicilia.
-*'''1492 to 1692.''' Thousands of '''Jewish emigrants''' moved into Italy because of religious persecution. Most of them came '''from Spain and Portugal'''. Many settled in Rome and other major cities.
-*'''1980s to Present''' As a result of the profound economic and social changes brought about by postwar industrialization, including low birth rates, an aging population and thus a shrinking workforce, during the 1980s. Italy became to attract rising flows of foreign immigrants. The present-day figure of about 5 million foreign residents, that make up some 8% of the total population. The official figures also exclude '''illegal immigrants, the so-called clandestini''', whose numbers are very difficult to determine. In May 2008, The Boston Globe quoted an estimate of 670,000 for this group.
-*Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and more recently, the 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the European Union, the main waves of migration came from the '''former socialist countries of Eastern Europe (especially Romania, Albania, Ukraine and Poland)'''.
-*The second most important area of immigration to Italy has always been the '''neighbouring North Africa (in particular, Morocco, Egypt and Tunisia)''', with soaring arrivals as a consequence of the Arab Spring.
-*In recent years, growing migration fluxes from the Far East (notably, '''China and the Philippines''') and Latin America ('''Ecuador, Peru''') have been recorded.
-*Currently, there are '''1.2 million Romanian-born citizens''' living and working in Italy.
-*Today the Romanians make up the largest community in the country, followed by '''Albanians''' (441,027) and '''Moroccans''' (422,980).The fourth largest community in Italy are the '''Chinese'''.<ref name="mod">"Demographics of Italy: Modern Italy and immigration", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Italy#Modern_Italy_and_immigration, accessed 19 April 2021.</ref>
 ==Italian Immigration by Country of Destination==