"We must not forget the faces of migrants, both those who arrive in our country and your own, those of the many Italians who have left or are leaving. That is why relegating the migration issue to the topic of irregularity or illegality, applying inhumane laws and making agreements with third countries to block the flows, only serves to dehumanize and not see that behind the migration phenomenon there are flesh and blood people with their hopes". Thus Emiliano Manfredonia, National President of ACLI (Italian Christian Workers' Association), commenting on the Italians in the World 2024 Report, produced by the Migrantes Foundation, which was presented for the first time in New York at Saint Patrick's Old Cathedral School. According to the Italians in the World 2024 Report, 23.2% of those abroad are between 35 and 49 years old, while 21.7% belong to the 18-34 age group. But at the same time there is also a certain mobility of the over-50s and that is usually referred to as "Welfare Mobility", demonstrated particularly by the fact that the over-65s have increased by 12.9. From 2020 to the present, Italy has about 652,000 fewer residents, while there are more than 6 million Italians living abroad. "It took 19 years for the Italians in the World Report to arrive in New York," began Delfina Licata, RIM curator. "In the meantime, compatriots abroad have doubled and in America they have grown by more than 70%. According to Licata, “we have become a nation of multiple and complex migrations, fully protagonists of cosmopolitanism and European circulation, but suffering from a sick migration because it is unidirectional. The work to be done is to heal the migration process by transforming it from unidirectional to circular, uniting departures with arrivals and returns. And this work is first and foremost cultural”.