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The Bossi-Fini Law: Explicit Fanaticism, Implicit Moderation, and Poisoned Fruits

2003; Berghahn Books; Volume: 18; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3167/ip.2002.180111

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Asher Daniel Colombo, Giuseppe Sciortino,

European Criminal Justice and Data Protection

On 11 November 2002, the terms of the amnesty promoted by the second Berlusconi government to legalize those foreign workers without residence permits expired. The amnesty, the fifth of its kind in Italy over the last two decades, saw the submission of 702,156 applications. If, as expected, the overwhelming majority of these applications see the concession of residence permits, the overall effect will be greater than that of the sum of the two previous amnesties, promoted respectively by the Lamberto Dini government in 1995 and the Romano Prodi government in 1998.