TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction
2. Migration and the EU

2.1. The “Dublin system” and its reform

2.2. The New European Pact’s proposal for a regulation on asylum and migration management

2.3. The financial plan for the next five years

2.4. How to improve the EU role and programs? The new EU Asylum Agency

3. Migration and the Nation-State

3.1. Fragments of a missing (integration) model

3.2. The peculiar case of Italy: multiple gaps scenario

3.3. Labor Law gaps

3.4. Demographic and anti-depopulation policy gaps. Reception and Integration System

3.5. Welfare gaps

4. The administrative issue and policy implementation
5. An assessment