Immigrant Prato

China Street in Rome, located in Esquelino Street in Rome. Rome, Milan and Prato have the largest Chinese communities in Italy.

China Street in Prato, together with China Street in Rome and Milan, is one of the largest and most important China Streets in Italy.

The Chinese population in Italy grew rapidly in the first decade of 2 1 century. According to ISTAT statistics, on February 365,438+0, 2065,438+00, there were 209,934 China people living in Italy, accounting for 0.34% of the total population living in Italy. The Chinese population ranks fourth in Italy, second only to Romanian, Albanian and Moroccan immigrant groups [1]. However, the above figures do not include many China people living illegally in Italy and China people who have become Italian citizens.

A few years ago, because Chinese people were not easy to integrate into society, they occasionally clashed with local people. In 2007, dozens of China people demonstrated in the streets of Milan to protest against serious discrimination. [2] The treviso municipal government has ordered Chinese-run shops to remove red lanterns because they look "too oriental". [3]

Generally speaking, there are many Chinese in big cities, and conflicts and cultural differences tend to intensify, especially where Chinese economic industries compete with Italian enterprises, such as Prato's textile industry. [4][5] At the same time, it is in these environments that the second-generation immigrants born and raised in Italy gradually demand more care and try to integrate into society better and better. [6]