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<p>In Italy, most female immigrant workers, mainly Romanians, are employed in care sectors. This is the reason why many scholars have dealt with the impact of domestic work in Romanians’ lives: looking after our family results, according to them, in depression, anxiety, panic. Our job, on the contrary, aims at demonstrating that working in this sector improves post-soviet women’s social status, rescuing them from a subordinate condition in their native country.</p>
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In Italy, most female immigrant workers, mainly Romanians, are employed in care sectors. This is the reason why many scholars have dealt with the impact of domestic work in Romanians’ lives: looking after our family results, according to them, in depression, anxiety, panic. Our job, on the contrary, aims at demonstrating that working in this sector improves post-soviet women’s social status, rescuing them from a subordinate condition in their native country.

Romanian Migration. The Italy Syndrome and the Other Side of the Coin

European Review Of Applied Sociology

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In Italy, most female immigrant workers, mainly Romanians, are employed in care sectors. This is the reason why many scholars have dealt with the impact of...

Romanian Migration. The Italy Syndrome and the Other Side of the Coin

Publié en ligne: 04 juil. 2022

Pages: 1 - 9

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eras-2022-0001

Mots clés
Romanian migration, female immigrant workers, domestic workers, care sectors

© 2022 Carlotta Costanzo et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Romanian Migration. The Italy Syndrome and the Other Side of the Coin

Publié en ligne: 04 juil. 2022

Pages: 1 - 9

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eras-2022-0001

Mots clésRomanian migration, female immigrant workers, domestic workers, care sectors

© 2022 Carlotta Costanzo et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
Romanian migration, female immigrant workers, domestic workers, care sectors