Eritreans in Italy are residents of
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...
who were born in
Eritrea or are of
Eritrean descent. According to the
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmoniz ...
, there were 13,592 Eritrean migrants in Italy in 2015.
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History
Italy has had a connection with Eritrea since the acquisition of Assab in 1869 by Raffaele Rubattino
Raffaele Rubattino (10 October 1810, Genoa – 2 November 1881) was an Italian entrepreneur and colonialist who started a shipping company that ran merchant ships on the routes to the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. He was also a founder of the Ital ...
.[ Eritrea officially became an Italian colony in 1889.][ Prior to the racial laws of Fascist Italy, mixed race children of Italian fathers and Eritrean mothers were entitled to Italian citizenship, as long as they were legally recognized by their fathers.][
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Demographics
As of 2021, most Eritrean nationals residing in Italy live in Rome
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, Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...
, and Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 1 ...
.[ The following table lists Italian provinces by Eritrean population.
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Notable people
* Melissa Chimenti
*Elvira Banotti
Elvira Banotti (17 July 1933 in Asmara – 2 March 2014 in Lavinio) was an Italian journalist and writer of Italian Eritrean descent, feminist activist and founder of the ''Rivolta Femminile'' group in the early 1970s.
Biography
She was born in ...
* Alessandro Ghebreigziabiher
*Gabriella Ghermandi
Gabriella Ghermandi (born 1965) is an Italo-Ethiopian writer and performer. Ghermandi's writing focuses on the intersection of African (specifically Ethiopian) and Italian identity.
Early life
Ghermandi was born in Addis Ababa to an Italian fath ...
* Ines Pellegrini
*Senhit (singer)
Senhit Zadik Zadik (born 1 October 1979), known professionally as simply Senhit (formerly written as Senit), is an Italian singer. She represented San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf with " Stand By", but failed to quali ...
See also
*Demographics of Eritrea
Sources disagree as to the current population of Eritrea, with some proposing numbers as low as 3.6 million and others as high as 6.7 million. Eritrea has never conducted an official government census.
The nation has nine recognized ethnic group ...
*Eritreans
Eritreans are the native inhabitants of Eritrea, as well as the global diaspora of Eritrea. Eritreans constitute several component ethnic groups, some of which are related to ethnic groups that make up the Ethiopian people in neighboring Ethio ...
References
Eritrean diaspora
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