[3] In contrast, the Caboverde Informatics Project of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth estimated that by 1995 their population already had reached 10,000.

The migrants consisted of young women recruited for live-in domestic work in Italy by Capuchin friars living in São Nicolau, Cape Verde.

[8] Two factors have limited the shift away from domestic work into other lines of employment such as heavy industry: only a limited number of Cape Verdean men have migrated to Italy, and the Cape Verdeans are concentrated in the less-industrialised southern parts of Italy.

[7] In general, Cape Verdeans have not faced as severe a level of discrimination as other migrant groups like Moroccans.

[9] It is common for children to be sent back to Cape Verde for their early education and then return to Italy when they are older.