Il controllo statale sull’immigrazione di manodopera italiana nella Germania federale

This article deals with the state control of Italian labor migration to West Germany after World War II. In this respect, the actions of both the German and the Italian governments are taken into consideration, as both countries took measures to control the influx of the Italian workforce to the Federal Republic of Germany. Migration was subject to an institutional framework based on diplomatic negotiations between Germany and Italy. In this context, the Federal Republic and National Socialist Germany proceeded in a similar way regarding the recruitment to Italian labor. In 1955, the recruitment of Italian labor was reintroduced by means of a German-Italian agreement, which served as a model for further recruitment agreements between Germany and other Mediterranean states. However, from 1962 onwards, Italian laborers, in contrast to all other groups of “guestworkers”, came to benefit from the liberalization within the European Economic Community. Consequently, state recruitment was superseded by spontaneous migration, which turned out to be beyond the control of both the German and the Italian authorities.