A newspaper for immigrants: Spanish-Italian interference in Expreso Latino

Abstract

In the past ten years, both Spain and Italy have been two of the European countries in which the migrant population has steadily increased. In 2009, figures showed 5,262,000 immigrants in Spain and 4,330,000 in Italy, meaning that this population has grown by a factor of 5 and 3, respectively, over the past ten years. When focusing specifically on the immigrant population coming from Latin America, this group in Italy represents 18% of the total of the migrant population, with the number slightly eclipsing 300,000 people. Expreso Latino belongs to the publishing group Stranieri in Italia, which is the most important publishing house in Italy oriented toward immigrants. It started in 2000 with a website (www.stranieriinitalia.it/) and then expanded to the printed media sector. At the moment in which this research was carried out, it printed around 250,000 copies in total, including twenty different ethnic papers in fifteen different languages ranging from Spanish or Romanian to Ukrainian or Hindi. Most of these papers can also be found as PDFs on their particular sites, which are linked to the general homepage of Stranieri in Italia.