Italy's long coastline and developed economy entices tens of thousands of illegal immigrants from southeastern Europe and northern Africa
Italy-Austria-Switzerland: borders are shifting because glacier peaks that had served as a natural boundary are melting
refugees (country of origin): 19,441 (Nigeria), 15,337 (Pakistan), 12,962 (Afghanistan), 10,609 (Mali), 7,901 (Somalia), 5,845 (Gambia), 5,079 (Iraq) (mid-year 2021); 173,231 (Ukraine) (as of 6 December 2022)
stateless persons: 3,000 (mid-year 2021)
note: 686,097 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-December 2022)
important gateway for drug trafficking; organized crime groups allied with Colombian and Spanish groups trafficking cocaine to Europe
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