Family care has always had the “natural” depositary in the female gender, “inclined” to care for the most fragile family members, looking after this context, free of charge “by disposition”. However, there is something not working anymore inside the Italian system. Family transformations need new spaces and time for caregiving, these are often devolved to immigrant women: nannies, housekeepers, and care workers. This constantly growing phenomenon carries lights and shadows with it. Opportunities and forced choices, interdependencies, and absences, spaces of well-being and inequalities, on which we need to ponder and act, originate in ineffective welfare systems and migrations. Strong questions for a pedagogy that cannot avoid intervention in the present complex systems.
La questione della cura familiare ha da sempre trovato i suoi “naturali” custodi nel genere femminile, “portato” ad accudire i soggetti fragili della famiglia, ad occuparsi in modo gratuito e “per propensione” di questo ambito. Nel sistema italiano, però, qualcosa non funziona più. Le trasformazioni familiari richiedono nuovi spazi e tempi di cura che spesso vengono delegati a donne immigrate: tate, colf e badanti. Un fenomeno in continua crescita che porta con sé luci e ombre. Tra welfare inefficaci e traiettorie migratorie, si generano occasioni e scelte forzate, interdipendenze e lontananze, spazi di benessere e di disuguaglianze su cui occorre interrogarsi e agire. Interrogativi forti per una pedagogia che non può fare a meno di intervenire negli odierni sistemi complessi.
The work of immigrant women, between caregiving and exploitation: nannies, housekeepers and care workers
DELUIGI, ROSITA
2017-01-01
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Family care has always had the “natural” depositary in the female gender, “inclined” to care for the most fragile family members, looking after this context, free of charge “by disposition”. However, there is something not working anymore inside the Italian system. Family transformations need new spaces and time for caregiving, these are often devolved to immigrant women: nannies, housekeepers, and care workers. This constantly growing phenomenon carries lights and shadows with it. Opportunities and forced choices, interdependencies, and absences, spaces of well-being and inequalities, on which we need to ponder and act, originate in ineffective welfare systems and migrations. Strong questions for a pedagogy that cannot avoid intervention in the present complex systems.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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