Foreign students in schools in Fano

Foreign students in schools in Fano and their knowledge of the Italian language

It’s not easy to quantify the exact number of the foreign pupils in the schools because there is a high mobility due to jobs and establishments in a tourist zone like the Adriatic Riviera;
Apart from newly arrived students there are more and more children of “mixed” couples, children from families that live in Italy for a long time, adopted international children (that maintain the foreign citizenship for approximately a year, then become Italian) children from emigrated persons that return in their native country after many years of migration.
In this school year 2006/2007 there are 408 foreign students in primary and secondary school. The research was carried out by C.R.E.M.I. in the beginning of this school year.
According to the data collected in the single town of Fano The origins are various; the students in the schools come from 49 different nationalities:

The nationalities of the not Italian students in the schools of Fano:

ALBANIAN

ALGERIAN

ARGENTINE

AUSTRIAN

BOSNIAN

BRASILIAN

CAMBODIAN

CAMERUNESE

CZECH

CHINESE

COLUMBIAN

CONGOLESE

CROATIAN ROM

CUBAN

DOMINICANA

EQUADOREGNA

FILIPPINA

GHANESE

GREEC

INDIAN

ENGLISH

IRACHEN

ISLANDS MAURITIUS

ITALIAN

LITUAN

MACEDONE

MAROCCHINA

MAURUTHIANA

MOLDAVA

NEPALESE

NIGERIANA

PAKISTANA

POLACCA

ROM

RUMEN

RUSSIAN

SENEGALESE

SERBA

SLAVA

SPANISH

SRILANKAN

SWITSERLAND

GERMAN

THAILANDESE

TUNISINA

UCRAINA

UZBEKA

YUGOSLAVIA

ZAIRESE

The percentages of presence regarding the Italian pupils are:

	All’ students	Foreign students	Percentuale
Creches	245	14	5,7%
Infancy council schools	600	43	7,1%
Primary and secondary private and council schools.	5.298	408	7,7%

As it turns out from the scheme, most people come from the Balkan countries area and eastern Europe, the countries of the Maghreb, South and Central Americans. The distribution of the not Italian students is constant in every school level, even if in percentage, the incidence is greater in the infancy and obligatory schools. Great parts of foreign students are in the city schools because of the desire of the families for a better future.
A group of people from different origins is considered wealth, because it values the use of the Italian language like language of all, through which people understand each other and communicate, and limits the isolation of the foreign pupils in schools because they speak all the same language.