“badanti” (carers), the migration of women from estern europe

 

A large number of women from Eastern Europe have been migrating to Italy to work in recent years because of the Soviet Union regime's fall. Women coming mainly from Ukraine, Poland, Romania and Moldova, countries victims, like all others of the ex-socialist block, of the social-economical crisis generated by the end of the communist regime.
These women, most of them in their 40’s or 50’s, had to migrate to keep substaining their families at home, therefore invented for themself a new kind of job that filled-up a gap in the italian labour market and soon they became the “badanti” or “carers” for old, often not self-sufficent people, nowaday an irrepleaceble workforce for the needs of the ageing italian society.