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Recognizing the opportunity, many Italian companies regularly scout German and Swiss factories for newly skilled Italian workers, and lure them home with firm offers of jobs and housing. Italian authorities have supported these efforts by offering housing priority to the returnees, and customs inspectors have levied nominal duty on their cars. But technical skills, appliances and a nest egg are not the only things the workers bring back. From the Iberian peninsula to the Bosporus and beyond, the migrant workers may one day serve as a compelling force for change when they return from the north with fresh notions about economics, politics and society.