Abstract

The article addresses the complex problem of the relationship between migration and the religious factor in modern multicultural democracies, with particular reference to the Italian constitutional order. Since the terrorist attacks of 2001, in fact, immigration policies have been increasingly constructed in the name of security protection, and less attention has been paid to the integration of migrants. This has also had consequences in terms of protecting the religious freedom of minorities, as evidenced by the most recent trends on the legislative, administrative and jurisprudential levels. Particular attention is given to the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court, which has repeatedly indicated the need for the relationship between religious freedom and security to be based on a strict test of proportionality of legislative choices, in deference to the supreme value represented by human dignity.