ABSTRACT
Migrant women face strong difficulties also in accessing long-term social and healthcare services, due to persistent language difficulties, cultural differences and poor knowledge of the national service system. Given the unsatisfactory dimension of the anti-discrimination perspective, B. Pezzini outlines an anti-subordination principle, which recognizes the importance of eradicating the subordination of women to men, reading the gender relations as a power structure. The situation of migrant women can be represented as a form of double seclusion or marginalization. In fact, women are not generally involved in the networks to which male migrants belong in their country of origin; at the same time, because of intra-ethnic hierarchies, women do not succeed in building new social networks in the country of resettlement. Some regions experimented with day-care centres for foreign women and children in order to guarantee appropriate and reserved treatments and specialized personnel.
