Marriage between a sicilian man and foreign woman is a growing trend. In Sicily mixed marriages are tripled last 15 years and in some areas so much that it’s a quite common talk-about that some men even divorce their sicilian wife to marry a foreign woman. Total in Italy, men who already have a marriage and a family behind and leaves it for a foreign woman happens in 37.3% of cases in which he celebrates the second marriage. The lower the percentage of women that characterizes the phenomenon: to leave the family to a stranger, who then becomes the second husband, are 18.3%.? Italian men marry women mostly from EU countries (59%) or from the American continent.

Conflicts increase if there is a difference of religion, particularly between Muslims and Christians.

An important issue according to Eurispes are about the scams that are hiding behind mixed marriages, where often is to get italian citizenship. 79.3% (mostly women) of marriages was for marriage and over 30%? for a residence. The Italian Association Matrimonialisti estimates that every year, in Italy, 3000 weddings are for residential scams.

Sources: istat, la sicilia, Eurispes, the italian Acc. Matrimonialisti, blogs, local newspapers
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?ktenskap mellan en siciliansk man och utl?ndsk kvinna ?r en v?xande trend. P? Sicilien har bland?ktenskap tredubblas de senaste 15 ?ren och i vissa omr?den s? mycket att det ?r ett ganska vanligt pratom att m?nga m?n skiljer sig fr?n sicilianska frun f?r att gifta sig med en utl?ndsk kvinna. Totalt i Italien m?n som redan har ett ?ktenskap och en familj bakom sig och l?mnar den f?r en utl?ndsk kvinna, ?r 37,3% av fallen d?r han firar det andra ?ktenskapet. L?gre andel hos kvinnor som k?nnetecknar fenomenet, att l?mna familjen f?r en fr?mling, som d? blir den andra maken, ?r 18,3%. Italienska m?n gifter sig med kvinnor fr?mst fr?n EU-l?nder (59%) eller fr?n den amerikanska kontinenten.

Konflikterna ?kar om det finns en skillnad p? religion, s?rskilt mellan muslimer och kristna.

En viktig fr?ga enligt Eurispes ?r de bedr?gerier som g?mmer sig bakom bland?ktenskap, d?r det ofta handlar om att f? italienskt medborgarskap. 79,3% (mestadels kvinnor) av ?ktenskapen var f?r ?ktenskap och ?ver 30% f?r ett medborgarskap. Den italienska F?reningen Matrimonialisti uppskattar att varje ?r, i Italien, ?r 3000 br?llop f?r medborgarskapsbedr?gerier.