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

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• romanian migration
• female immigrant workers
• domestic workers
• care sectors