According to the official Italian administrative data, the community of Italians living in Athens went on growing over the years, including the last decade. What are the drivers of Italian immigration in a less-developed country than Italy, a country which recently has also experienced a more serious crisis than the Italian one? To answer this question, we followed a research strategy based on in-depth interviews to Italians living in the Athens area. After reviewing the features of the Italian community and those of the group of interviewees, we focus on the respondents who found a job in Athens, both as independent workers and as employees. Our results show that a great number of drivers are at work in producing a migration flow from Italy to Greece. They support the idea that contemporary international migration (more specifically, intra-European migration) cannot be fully understood by relying exclusively on an economic approach.

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不只是为了工作：雅典地区的意大利移民

根据意大利官方的行政数据，居住在雅典的意大利人社区在过去几年中不断增长，包括过去十年。意大利移民在比意大利更不发达国家的驱动力是什么，这个国家最近也经历了比意大利更严重的危机？为了回答这个问题，我们遵循了一项基于对居住在雅典地区的意大利人的深入访谈的研究策略。在回顾了意大利社区和受访者群体的特征后，我们关注在雅典找到工作的受访者，无论是作为独立工作者还是作为雇员。我们的结果表明，大量的驱动因素正在产生从意大利到希腊的移民流。他们支持当代国际移民（更具体地说，