What is it about?
The paper describes how migration affects the care of older people in Italy.
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Why is it important?
Migrant care-givers, Italian elderly and their families rely on each other to make the best of a precarious situation. Their relationship highlights the contradictions within Italian politics on care and migration. This case study shows how migrants help Italian families to hold on to the tradition of family care for ageing parents.
Perspectives
Most studies on migration focus on the way migrants and host cultures change one another. This paper shows how migrants rather help Italian families to uphold their traditions of family-based care for their older relatives.
Sjaak van der Geest
University of Amsterdam
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This page is a summary of: How migrants keep Italian families Italian: badanti and the private care of older people, International Journal of Migration Health and Social Care, June 2017, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/ijmhsc-08-2015-0027.
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