Hypothesizing Educational Pathways Accompany the Biographical Transitions of Eastern Europe’s Carers

In the last thirty years, Italy has experienced an intense flow of immigration from different areas. Theregional data (VI° Regional Conference on Immigration) show that Campania is no more a transitregion. An interesting feature of contemporary migration is the large percentage of highly educatedand qualified people: immigrants with high level of education and training came mostly from EasternEurope. Italy, moreover, is characterized by a high percentage of women among immigrants, whichhas increased in recent years, particularly for people from some countries (in 2006, for example, apercentage between 65% and 82% of the foreign workforce from countries of east such as Poland,Ukraine, Moldova, are women); among the immigrant there is a high percentage of women workingboth as housekeeper and as caregivers. This paper aims to offer a reflection on the training andorientation training of those migrants in Campania who carry out the tasks of caregivers. The figure ofthe maid or nanny makes up for the lack of an often disorganized welfare system, to meet the needsof a population, as the Italian, where the negative trend of birth adds up to a constant aging of thepopulation and the progressive increase in longevity which makes constant assistance of the elderlynecessary and irreplaceable in a situation of unsustainable spending at the individual level, weighingin fact entirely on public sector budgets of social assistance.Women are institutionally recognized as a determinant factor in maintaining the balance of socioeconomicimpacts, exactly referring to their key role in the world of production, for their subjectivity,their history, their biographical experience, their desires and legitimate expectations.The researcher Schlosseberg (Schlosseberg, 2005) designed and implemented specific programs andinterventions of training in which she alternates individual intervention to work in teams. Often to facetransition phases lived by immigrant women, it needs to adopt a real formative advisory, able toimplement the skills of self-determination of adult in training (Biasin, 2012). In a formative perspective,the moments of transition propose the revival of a type of subjectivity, which is able to reflect an activeand creative inner (Paul, 2002). Innovative changes are, therefore, required in orientation and trainingin work fields: it needs to introduce structural changes to allow the professionals involved inrelationships of care and assistance to take a proactive approach that will enable them to govern thebiographical processes. The activities of training and advisory, aimed to adults, are based ondimensions of lived experience in order to individualize the transition, coupled with social andrelational context of reference.