Eritreans in Italy are residents of
Italy who were born in
Eritrea
Eritrea ( ; ti, ኤርትራ, Ertra, ; ar, إرتريا, ʾIritriyā), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara. It is bordered by Ethiopia i ...
or are of
Eritrean descent. According to the
United Nations
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, there were 13,592 Eritrean migrants in Italy in 2015.
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History
Italy has had a connection with Eritrea since the acquisition of Assab
Assab or Aseb (, ) is a port city in the Southern Red Sea Region of Eritrea. It is situated on the west coast of the Red Sea.
Languages spoken in Assab are predominantly Afar, Tigrinya, and Arabic. Assab is known for its large market, beaches ...
in 1869 by Raffaele Rubattino
Raffaele Rubattino (10 October 1810, Genoa – 2 November 1881) was an Italian entrepreneur and colonialist who started a shipping company that ran merchant ships on the routes to the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. He was also a founder of the Ital ...
.[ Eritrea officially became an Italian colony in 1889.][ Prior to the ]racial laws
Anti-Jewish laws have been a common occurrence throughout Jewish history. Examples of such laws include special Jewish quotas, Jewish taxes and Jewish "disabilities".
Some were adopted in the 1930s and 1940s in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy a ...
of Fascist Italy, mixed race children of Italian fathers and Eritrean mothers were entitled to Italian citizenship, as long as they were legally recognized by their fathers.[
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Demographics
As of 2021, most Eritrean nationals residing in Italy live in Rome
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, Milan
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, and Bologna.[ The following table lists Italian provinces by Eritrean population.
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Notable people
*Melissa Chimenti
Melissa Chimenti (born 1948 in Asmara, Eritrea as Maria Rosa Chimenti) aka ''Melissa'', is an Italian actress and singer. Her father was Italian and her mother was Eritrean. Her best-known role is Papaya in the film '' Papaya, Love Goddess of the ...
* Elvira Banotti
* Alessandro Ghebreigziabiher
* Gabriella Ghermandi
* Ines Pellegrini
*Senhit (singer)
Senhit Zadik Zadik (born 1 October 1979), known professionally as simply Senhit (formerly written as Senit), is an Italian singer. She represented San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf with " Stand By", but failed to quali ...
See also
*Demographics of Eritrea
Sources disagree as to the current population of Eritrea, with some proposing numbers as low as 3.6 million and others as high as 6.7 million. Eritrea has never conducted an official government census.
The nation has nine recognized ethnic group ...
*Eritreans
Eritreans are the native inhabitants of Eritrea, as well as the global diaspora of Eritrea. Eritreans constitute several component ethnic groups, some of which are related to ethnic groups that make up the Ethiopian people in neighboring Ethiop ...
References
Eritrean diaspora
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