Introduce the meeting Luisa Chiodi, scientific director of Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso.
We are accustomed to their silent presence. Unassuming, never at the center of news stories, yet there isn’t an Italian who hasn’t encountered one. We are talking about the numerous women from Eastern Europe employed in the care sector. We call them caregivers, but in reality, they are the protagonists of an important migratory phenomenon and privileged observers who provide a different perspective on Italy, its family dynamics, and relationships with foreigners. They also tackle issues such as aging in our society, the mechanisms of marginalization and exclusion of women from the economic system, the distance from their own families, loneliness, and rights. They are silent witnesses who have begun to engage with a new language, pursue education, and even plant the first seeds of what is emerging as a nascent literature on migration.
In collaboration with the Trentino Forum for Peace and Human Rights as part of the initiative “For a Euro-Mediterranean Citizenship.”
