Foster Care of Foreign Minors in Italy

An Intercultural or Neo-Assimilationist Practice?: Table 1

Bibliographic Data

ID12583003
AuthorsJoëlle Long (0000-0003-1483-6215, University of Turin, corresponding author), Roberta Ricucci (0000-0001-8549-9637, University of Turin)
Year2016
Volume30
Issue2
Pages179-196
Publication date2016-04-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Law Policy and the Family (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1360-9939 • E-ISSN: 1464-3707
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/lawfam/ebw005
OpenAlexW2338358287
LanguageEN
References cited17

This article aims to investigate how the foster care of foreign children is perceived and managed in a relatively recent immigration country such as Italy. Combining legal and sociological perspectives and methodology, we shall discuss whether and how foster care can effectively support immigrants’ parenting and how interethnic fostering can avoid being transformed into a neo-assimilationist practice. Through the analysis of domestic case law and qualitative interviews with social and legal practitioners, representatives of the administration and of migrants’ associations, we shall identify national and local foster-care practices. Specific attention will be devoted to the role of the ‘cultural variable’ in the decision to remove offspring from their birth parents and place them in care, and to the conservation of the foster-children’s cultural, religious, and linguistic heritage. As a case study of problems and perspectives, we shall focus on Turin, one of the Italian cities most committed to the reception and integration of immigrants, focussing especially on the protection of minors

Cultural assimilation · Immigration · Political science · Sociology · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Law

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