Immigrants in Italy and Their Right to Health Services: The Importance of Health Services for an Easier Integration

Abstract

This article aims to show how the legislator has outlined a regulatory framework putting forward a diversified regulation that goes from equal treatment for both citizens and noncitizens to ensuring a basic package of health services also to those people who are residing illegally (calling it a grading of health protection). It is pointed out that an immigrant’s right to health is a preferential case as regards the concept of “social citizenship” that goes beyond the status civitates as well as beyond the workings of equality which is the supreme principle for everybody.