[From Ivory Coast to Italy. Burkina Faso migration patterns and national interests].

"Ivory Coast represents nowadays the first immigration country of West Africa.... The movement of Burkinabe migrants [from Burkina Faso], Bissa in particular, from Ivory Coast to Italy does not improve the fundamental instability.... Italian restrictive immigration policy, at the beginning of the 1990s, in accordance with [the] Schengen agreement, has progressively prevented Burkinabe immigrants from obtaining a regular status, which would assure them of basic rights.... New Italian laws, like the French immigration policy of the mid 1970s, are in fact discouraging return migration and fostering stable migration with the relevant integration policy for those, a small number indeed, who are granted a residence permit." (SUMMARY IN ENG)