Subjective vs. Objective integration of foreign women in Liverpool : Liverpool, The World in One City: Subjective vs. Objective Perception of Integration of Immigrant Women in Liverpool

ISBN-13: 9783659272790 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 428 str.

Nunzia Di Cristo Bertali

Opis

This study focuses on foreign women who have been living in Liverpool from the year 2001. The investigation compares subjective perception of integration with objective questionnaire's results. Literature has neglected the role of women in migration and in particular the importance of the integration of women in the host society, for the wellbeing of the whole family. This research tried to discover whether the perception of the women contacted reflected the objective outcome of the survey. The purposely created evaluation tool enabled the construction of a table showing the discovered differences. The results show that there is a marked difference between the subjective perception of integration and the objective answers. If mothers are not integrated is unlikely that their children will be. The children will be confused by the diversity of culture at home and in their outside world. This could avert the formation of a cohesive society. Integration of families in the wider society can only be achieved if mothers speak the local language. Therefore their lack of fluency in the host language could be one of the aspects encouraging the creation of self-segregated communities

O autorze

was born in Adi Ugri (Eritrea) in 1947 she is married with Alberto and has two children. She is Italian and has been living in England since 1982. She has been studying women in migration for the last ten years at Liverpool John Moores University. Her studies have benefitted from her living in Africa, Italy, Turkey and England.