L'immigrato, l'italiano e il burocratese

This article deals with difficulties and complexity in written institutional communication. Particularly, it focuses on the obstacles that immigrants encounter in decoding institutional texts from the initial stages of integration into our country. As you know the right to citizenship, the right to health, to work, are achievable only if the input offered to foreigners is proportional to the skills achieved in decoding some texts like those bureaucratic, often obscure, even for native speakers. In this regard, we will try to examine some texts directed to immigrants, to assess the readability, the effectiveness according to the skills acquired and required, to review what you can not expect by immigrants and the policies of our country, in matters of immigration, manage to implement to ensure an active and conscious participation of foreigners in public domains: work, school, health, housing, etc .