---
title: "Italians Most Worried About Immigration"
description: "That's the percentage of Italians who voice concern about immigration, the highest share of any of the publics in the latest Pew Global Attitudes 47-nation survey."
date: "2007-10-17"
authors:
  - name: "Russell Heimlich"
    job_title: "Former web developer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2007/10/17/italians-most-worried-about-immigration/"
---

# Italians Most Worried About Immigration

Nearly two in three Italians (64%) voice concern about immigration, the highest share of any of the publics in latest Pew Global Attitudes 47-nation survey. In the developing world, South Africans and the Lebanese frequently cite immigration as a very big problem. By contrast, roughly half of the residents of Pakistan, Bolivia and Mexico say that emigration — people leaving their country for jobs elsewhere — is a very big problem. For Lebanon and Pakistan, in particular, both emigration and immigration rate as frequently cited national problems. [Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/549/global-opinion-trends-2007)