The theme of immigration appears in 15,505 interventions delivered in the Italian Chamber of Deputies between 1948 and 2022. The year it was discussed most is 2014, with 847 interventions.
This page summarises the main figures. The full search, with the complete text of every intervention and downloadable results, is available in the corpus search engine.
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| Member of Parliament | Group | Interventions |
|---|---|---|
| NICOLA MOLTENI | Lega Nord | 149 |
| CARLO GIOVANARDI | Centro Cristiano Democratico / Cristiani Democratici Uniti | 124 |
| LUCIANO DUSSIN | Lega Nord | 98 |
| GIANNICOLA SINISI | L'Ulivo | 84 |
| FABIO RAMPELLI | Alleanza Nazionale | 83 |
| MARCO RONDINI | Lega Nord | 78 |
| MAURIZIO GASPARRI | Movimento Sociale Italiano | 77 |
| FABIO EVANGELISTI | Alleanza dei Progressisti | 75 |
| SANDRO GOZI | L'Ulivo | 71 |
| GIANLUCA PINI | Lega Nord | 68 |
| Parliamentary group | Interventions |
|---|---|
| Partito Democratico | 1,560 |
| Lega Nord | 1,543 |
| Forza Italia – Il Popolo della Libertà | 1,288 |
| L'Ulivo | 1,204 |
| Casa delle Libertà | 641 |
| Fratelli d'Italia | 606 |
| Lega | 522 |
| Movimento 5 Stelle | 512 |
| Democrazia Cristiana | 437 |
| Movimento Sociale Italiano | 347 |
The figures come from a full-text search over the entire corpus of
verbatim reports of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 1948 to 2022, queried with
immigrazione OR immigrati OR migranti OR extracomunitari OR clandestini. Each intervention is counted once even if the theme occurs
several times within it. The source of the texts is the
ItaParlCorpus dataset by Joshua
Cova (Harvard Dataverse), which collects 2,454,718 interventions and more than 470 million words.
Texts from the earliest legislatures come from OCR scans and may contain recognition errors.