[Documented foreign immigrants in Italy: ethnic ties and insertion into the labor force]

"The text presents an analysis of immigrants' insertion within the Italian labour market.... Two main sectors of activities have provided them with...opportunities of insertion: domestic work, mainly concentrated in the metropolis, and work industries, mostly widespread in Lombardia and the Italian North-Eastern regions. The second part of the paper presents the results of some empirical surveys which focus [on] three aspects: integration in the industrial sector; ¿subordinated' integration, concerning domestic work; [and] entrepreneurial integration...." (EXCERPT)