This research will try to investigate the complex and wide world of female migration and the women’s point of view on their migratory journey. The hypothesis is that migrant women face difficulties both as women and as migrants, and that women therefore experience migration in a more complicated way than men, both while traveling and when settling in a new country. This research has developed an enquiry among migrant women in Modena, a small-medium sized city located in the north of Italy. The thesis reconstructs the different peculiarities that distinguish the foreign women involved in the migration journey, the multiple factors that affect the construction and the evolution of their migratory experience, and how the fact of being a migrant woman affects her life and work strategies and on the subsequent phases of integration and social interaction. The enquiry was developed through a questionnaire administered to the women target group and the results have been analyzed from a qualitative point of view. The questionnaire aimed at investigating and understanding which elements are considered as difficulties and challenges by a migrant woman and which ones she has to face in her everyday life. An analysis was made to understand the possibilities that the city of Modena offers to migrant women. The research then focused on whether there were any common elements in the answers given by the women. The female migration includes a social, geographical and historical dimension. Through this research I also tried to find out whether women are interested in being involved in an integration process, and what are the main obstacles they have in the integration process in their new city. Following the results of this question, I have done some reflections about the common characteristics and the difficulties of the migrant women, in order to investigate what needs they have to live in the local context of Modena.
Questa ricerca cercherà di indagare il complesso e ampio mondo della migrazione femminile e il punto di vista delle donne, attraverso l'ipotesi che le donne migranti affrontano difficoltà sia in quanto donne che in quanto migranti, e che le donne quindi vivono la migrazione in modo particolarmente difficile, sia durante il viaggio sia quando si stabiliscono nel nuovo paese. Questa ricerca ha sviluppato un'indagine tra le donne migranti a Modena, una città di piccole-medie dimensioni, situata nel nord dell'Italia. La tesi ricostruisce le diverse peculiarità che contraddistinguono le donne straniere coinvolte nel percorso migratorio, i molteplici fattori che influenzano la costruzione e l'evoluzione della loro esperienza migratoria, e come il fatto di essere una donna migrante incida sulle strategie di vita e di lavoro e sulle successive fasi di integrazione e interazione sociale. L'indagine è stata sviluppata attraverso un questionario somministrato al gruppo target di donne e i risultati sono stati analizzati da un punto di vista qualitativo. Il questionario aveva lo scopo di indagare e capire quali elementi sono considerati come difficoltà e sfide da una donna migrante e quali sono quelli che deve affrontare nella sua vita quotidiana. È stata fatta un'analisi per capire le possibilità che la città di Modena offre alle donne migranti. La ricerca si è poi concentrata sull'esistenza di elementi comuni nelle risposte date dalle donne. La migrazione femminile include una dimensione sociale, geografica e storica. Attraverso questa ricerca ho anche cercato di scoprire se le donne sono interessate ad essere coinvolte in un processo di integrazione, e quali sono i principali ostacoli che incontrano nel processo di integrazione nella loro nuova città. In seguito ai risultati di questa domanda, ho fatto alcune riflessioni sulle caratteristiche comuni e sulle difficoltà delle donne migranti, per indagare su quali sono i bisogni che hanno per vivere meglio nel contesto locale di Modena.
Gender and mobility. A study on migrant women in the city of Modena
CAVICCHIOLI, SUSANNA
2021/2022
Abstract
This research will try to investigate the complex and wide world of female migration and the women’s point of view on their migratory journey. The hypothesis is that migrant women face difficulties both as women and as migrants, and that women therefore experience migration in a more complicated way than men, both while traveling and when settling in a new country. This research has developed an enquiry among migrant women in Modena, a small-medium sized city located in the north of Italy. The thesis reconstructs the different peculiarities that distinguish the foreign women involved in the migration journey, the multiple factors that affect the construction and the evolution of their migratory experience, and how the fact of being a migrant woman affects her life and work strategies and on the subsequent phases of integration and social interaction. The enquiry was developed through a questionnaire administered to the women target group and the results have been analyzed from a qualitative point of view. The questionnaire aimed at investigating and understanding which elements are considered as difficulties and challenges by a migrant woman and which ones she has to face in her everyday life. An analysis was made to understand the possibilities that the city of Modena offers to migrant women. The research then focused on whether there were any common elements in the answers given by the women. The female migration includes a social, geographical and historical dimension. Through this research I also tried to find out whether women are interested in being involved in an integration process, and what are the main obstacles they have in the integration process in their new city. Following the results of this question, I have done some reflections about the common characteristics and the difficulties of the migrant women, in order to investigate what needs they have to live in the local context of Modena.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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