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As a result, many Albanian immigrants in Italy do not have a legal status. Out of an estimated 150,000 Albanian immigrants in Italy in 1998, only some 82,000 were registered with authorities. In total there are 800,000 Albanians in Italy. Italy also took efforts to alleviate the plight of Albanians in Albania.
Feb 22, 2024 · Lawmakers of the ruling Socialist party vote in Tirana, Albania, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. Albania’s Parliament on Thursday approved a deal for the country to hold thousands of migrants rescued in international waters by Italy while their asylum applications are processed, despite protests from opposition lawmakers and human rights groups.
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Jan 29, 2024 · Albania’s top court has approved a controversial deal for Rome to send asylum seekers trying to reach Italy to the western Balkan nation instead — an unprecedented move in the EU. The pact had...
Jan 29, 2024 · Jan. 29, 2024. An Albanian court on Monday gave the green light to an agreement allowing Italy to send migrants who are rescued in the Mediterranean by Italian ships to detention centers in...
Feb 22, 2024 · Albania’s Assembly, or Parliament, votes on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024, and is expected to approve a deal with Italy under which thousands of migrants rescued at sea by Italian authorities would be sent to Albania while their applications for asylum in Italy are processed.
Nov 7, 2023 · MILAN (AP) — Migration experts and activists on Tuesday panned an agreement between Italy and Albania that would direct thousands of migrants to the Balkan nation while their asylum applications are under review, saying it follows a worrying trend of European Union nations trying to manage migration by looking beyond the bloc’s borders.
The main Albanian migration to Italy came from the mid-fifteenth to the mid-seventeenth centuries as the Ottomans pushed them west, although some Albanians had already settled there from the thirteenth century.
