Immigrazione, dignità, diritti e fattore religoso: test epocale per le democrazie costituzionali

Movement of people from one place to another to settle in a new location. Immigration is no longer an emergency, but a structural phenomenon, which impacts on State law, especially the parts concerning regular and irregular migrants as well as the reception system. Exposed to social and electoral pressures, that phenomenon produces uncertain and precarious legal status. This paper analyses them by focusing on the Italian legal system and the fact that immigration constitutes a crucial test for constitutional democracies and, more generally, for Western constitutionalism. In these contexts, the effective protection of dignity should be combined with fundamental rights and freedoms, including those pertaining to religion. Theoretical assumptions, however, are not always reflected in the daily life, least of all in the area of immigration