In an era of mystification and instrumentalization of migration (including politicians), the Statistical Dossier on Immigration (Dossier Statistico Immigrazione), now at its 28th edition, by means of statistics and a reasoned analysis of reality, continues to be essential for a better understanding of a phenomenon that is destined to concern us more and more in the future – willingly or not.

This edition, edited by IDOS Study and Research Centre in partnership with Centro Studi Confronti and with the collaboration of Unar, has been co-financed by the Fondo Otto per mille of the Waldensian Church and the Union of Methodist and Waldensian Churches. More than a hundred researchers and academics, with different skills and cultural backgrounds, have contributed to the drafting of this edition, in a variety of approaches that constitute the wealth of interpretation and content of this volume.