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The aim of the paper is to enlighten the advantages of measuring and representing migration flows through the network analysis approach. The data we use, in two different kinds of analysis, regard the changes of residence of foreign population; they are individual data collected by Istat through the Municipal Registers. In the first step, we consider inflows from abroad (average 2005–2006). The countries of origin are identified as “sending nodes” and the local labour market areas are identified as “receiving nodes”. In the second step, we examine the internal flows of immigrants between local labour market areas. The analysis is focused on specific citizenships.
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Each node shows a size proportional to its demographic size.
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Conti, C., Gabrielli, D., Guarneri, A., Tucci, E. (2012). Studying Foreigners’ Migration Flows Through a Network Analysis Approach. In: Di Ciaccio, A., Coli, M., Angulo Ibanez, J. (eds) Advanced Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Large Data-Sets. Studies in Theoretical and Applied Statistics(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21037-2_37
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