Italy Transnational Issues 2015, CIA World Factbook

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Italy Transnational Issues 2015

SOURCE: 2015 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES

Page last updated on June 22, 2014

Disputes - international:
Italy's long coastline and developed economy entices tens of thousands of illegal immigrants from southeastern Europe and northern Africa

Refugees and internally displaced persons:
refugees (country of origin): 12,682 (Eritrea); 10,817 (Somalia); 6,695 (Afghanistan) (2013)
stateless persons: 470 (2012)

Illicit drugs:
important gateway for and consumer of Latin American cocaine and Southwest Asian heroin entering the European market; money laundering by organized crime and from smuggling

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