Aver cura di chi cura: i progetti di sostegno alla genitorialità a distanza e alle famiglie transnazionali provenienti dai Paesi postsocialisti

Over the last two decades a new model of private and domestic welfare addressed to elders, in which migrant women are usually engaged as carers, has been spreading in many European Countries, especially in Italy. About one million of women has migrated towards Italy alone as a way to provide to their families (children, husbands and old parents), who usually have not moved away from their home countries. The experience of these workers as “long distance mothers” appears important to be studied from a pedagogical perspective, considering the intersecting vulnerabilities of being women, migrant, and also workers in a poorly protected and underestimated working sector (exposed, as it is, to the risks of the care professions) at the same time. A new frontier for pedagogical studies seems to be emerging in promoting long distance parenting support aimed at maintaining family relationships at a distance or accompanying family reunification. The thesis, recognizing a possible link between support for long distance parenting and the wellbeing of transnational families, has carried out a multiple case study on three projects that took place in Italy. Based on the emerging empirical data, some guidelines are outlined for the future planning of interventions aimed at the support of transnational families.