Who are Italy's Bangladeshis? A portrait in numbers of the fifth-largest foreign community
On 31 December 2024 there were 195,523 Bangladeshi citizens legally resident in Italy, 16.9% more than a year…
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Bangladeshi women in Italy: only one in nine works. Why, and what could change
Of all the data on the Bangladeshi community in Italy, one figure stands out: only 11.4% of women…
The EU Pact on Migration and Asylum takes effect: what changes for people from Bangladesh
Since 12 June 2026 the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum, adopted two years ago, has applied. It…
A "bidesh" called Italy: forty years of migration from Bangladesh
In Bengali, bidesh means "foreign land". For thousands of Bangladeshi families, for forty years that land has been…