Migrant Crisis-Hit Italy Sees Half of Citizens 'Feel Like Strangers in Their Own Country'

People across the West increasingly feel like they are “strangers” in their home countries, with Italy leading the pack.

Ipsos Mori research, cited by Chatham House fellow Matthew Goodwin, notes that some 49 per cent of Italians — who have borne the brunt of the migrant crisis recently — agree with the statement: “These days I feel like a stranger in my country.”

Since an expensive and not always entirely effective deal between the European Union and Turkey brought the so-called Eastern Mediterranean Route into Greece under somesemblance of control, Italy found itself becoming ground zero for the migrant crisis.

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