The aim of this article is to focus the importance of the gender approach in the analysis of contemporaneous migrations for work reason, and this starting from an empirical research on migration of a rural Rumanian population in Rome. Even if housework has made a long course before being recognized as work, we cannot ignore the role played by the migrant women in development and in defining that area of activity, above all in Italy where the demand for domestic help literally bursts out in the last three decades. This specific working reality, above all developing itself as hidden economy, creates the niche for the economic inclusion of migrant Rumanian women. The connection of migrant men and women towards the work carried out by them is a key element of the analysis. The way of thinking of the origin society towards the migration for working reason of men and women also changes thanks to the influence of the migration process itself.

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womens employment labor migration Eurasia Italy domestic work Europe Southern Europe migrant worker womens status