Turin in the '60s and '70s was the arena where the children of southern-Italian migrants who had arrived during the economic boom grew up into adults. These boys and girls experienced the urban space in different ways. From an early age, boys spent their free time on the street, their main place of socialisation. Girls, meanwhile, were kept under greater family control and were very soon saddled with domestic responsibilities, spending more time within the home, with less freedom of movement. Surprisingly, this difference proved advantageous for the girls: they attained greater social mobility at school and in work than their original families, through a fuller use of the city's opportunities for education and access to the white-collar professions.

social mobility Immigration Gender differences

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