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*Marisa Vannini calculated that in the 1980s Italian-Venezuelans made up almost 400,000 of Venezuela's population, including second-generation descendants of immigrants. | *Marisa Vannini calculated that in the 1980s Italian-Venezuelans made up almost 400,000 of Venezuela's population, including second-generation descendants of immigrants. | ||
*Currently (2021), Italian citizens resident in Venezuela are reduced to less than 50,000, due mainly to demographic mortality and to their return to Italy (because of a Venezuelan political and economic crisis in the 2000s).<ref>"Italian Venezuelans", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Venezuelans, accessed 21 April 2021.</ref> | *Currently (2021), Italian citizens resident in Venezuela are reduced to less than 50,000, due mainly to demographic mortality and to their return to Italy (because of a Venezuelan political and economic crisis in the 2000s).<ref>"Italian Venezuelans", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Venezuelans, accessed 21 April 2021.</ref> | ||
== Immigration into Italy == | == Immigration into Italy == | ||
*'''Early 1200s.''' '''Waldensian emigrants from France''' moved to northern Italy as a result of religious persecution. | *'''Early 1200s.''' '''Waldensian emigrants from France''' moved to northern Italy as a result of religious persecution. | ||