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'''African emigrants to Italy''' include [[Italy|Italian citizens]] and residents originally from [[Africa]]. Immigrants from Africa officially residing in Italy in 2015 numbered about 1,000,000 residents.<ref name=ISTAT /> '''Afro-Italians''' (''Afroitaliani'') are born and are raised in Italy, citizen of African descent or of mixed African and Italian roots.

In 2014 over 170,000 migrants arrived which represented the biggest influx of people into one country in European Union Historyhistory.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/talktojazeera/inthefield/2015/06/african-migrants-drives-europe-150604124356795.html|title=African migrants: What really drives them to Europe?|website=www.aljazeera.com}}</ref> A large percentage of them arrive via Africa.

African migrants specifically use Libyan coasts to travel across the Mediterranean Sea in large numbers, hoping to land on Italian shores.<ref name=":1" /> Although departing from [[Libya]], most are from [[Ghana]], [[Senegal]], [[Nigeria]] and [[Eritrea]].<ref name=":1" /> The route is dangerous and often unsuccessful; in 2015, 2,000 people died crossing the Mediterranean and the [[Libyan Coast Guard | Libyan coast guard]] intercepted many of the boats transporting the migrants from [[Africa]] to [[Italy]].<ref name=":1" /> As this route has gained more and more attention throughout the years, smugglers have started to use alternate routes such as [[Egypt]], the Balkan route from [[Greece]], and a very risky route from mountain passes in Albania.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36080216|title=Mass migration threatens national crisis in Italy|first=Katya|last=Adler|work=BBC News|date=April 19, 2016|via=www.bbc.com}}</ref>