Autore
Ramella, Franco

Titolo
Sulla diversità della famiglia immigrata. Note intorno a un dibattito americano sul vantaggio scolastico delle ragazze di seconda generazione
Periodico
Quaderni storici
Anno: 2013 - Volume: 142 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 197 - Pagina finale: 222

Recent studies suggest that the greater educational achievement of second generationgirls relative to boys in America rests on the maintenance of traditional genderroles in families coming from more patriarchal societies. Children of internal migrationfrom southern Italy during the Sixties show a quite similar pattern. To explain howchild-rearing practices result in a gender gap in educational attainment, this essayproposes a different perspective. Instead of focusing on cultural traditions migrantfamilies should have brought with them, it concentrates on social conditions createdby migration in urban neighborhoods and analyzes the consequences of migrationprocess in network terms. Changing city affects migrants' social networks, which needto be rebuilt in the new place because many individual ties drop away in the move.It is in this context that choices of migrant parents become significant. Geographicalmobility has a strong impact on family and kinship ties and on domestic economy.The migrant family is different, but its specificity has been under-investigated byhistorians.



SICI: 0301-6307(2013)142:1<197:SDDFIN>2.0.ZU;2-B
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