Migrazioni ed insediamenti informali: riflessioni sul caso siciliano

Over the last fifty years, many European regions in the Mediterranean area, historically considered as areas of origin of international migration flows, have been transformed into places of reception. At the basis of this mobility is, among many factors, the demand, by a variable and globalised economy, for 'easy' labour, mostly made up of new immigrants, instrumental to that particular local economic system. Analysing the spatial dimension of the phenomenon, it highlights how the inadequacy and insufficiency of reception places and the increase in eviction phenomena contribute to the significant increase in the phenomenon of informal settlements in peripheral urban contexts, making it difficult to quantify the problem of settlement location, distance from urban centres, lack of services and living conditions in general. Taking Sicily as a case study, the article uses an exploratory approach to try to understand the location choices of informal migrant settlements, using available data and literature. The final objective is the definition of territorial visions and strategies to orient planning tools in the direction of social equity objectives.