The paper analyses the migratory situation in Italy from a gender perspective, considered important not only because it is significant numerically but also due to the particular forms and modalities it has taken on over the decades. Immigrant women are present in all Italian regions although their situation has modified in relation to the changing characteristics of migratory flows over the years. The author analyses the various strategies and trajectories that have guided and still guide women in their decision to immigrate to our country. Indeed how the women have arrived in the country, their motives for leaving the homeland and their migratory projects have conditioned integration in the new context.only subscribers can see the full article

The paper examines the role of the family in the migratory process and strategies, highlighting how family represents an important variable in the determination and understanding of their development in Italy. The analysis of this institution and its dynamism helps us to understand changes that family introduces both in the country of origin and in the host country. The important role of migratory flows clearly emerges in the process of change affecting our society and its institutions as well as the institutions in the country of origin, as they act as accelerators in the processes of change. The paper thus focuses on migratory families as well as intra-family and social dynamics, and additional matrimonial work they have to do. The article also examines the various forms of families formed through immigration, especially reunited, transnational and mixed families. only subscribers can see the full article

The paper analyses and discusses how international migratory flows are conditioned by broader politico-economic dynamics. Neither poverty nor unemployment are sufficient conditions to understand migratory flows. Focus is placed on three types of economic conditions which can induce individuals to emigrate: structural conditions related to the types of relations determined by economic internationalisation in its various configurations (old colonial forms or recent neocolonial forms, particular types of relations as a result of current forms of economic globalisation); direct recruitment of immigrant workers by employers, or governments on their behalf, or through the immigrant network; trafficking of men, women and children in an increasing context of illegality.only subscribers can see the full article