Abstract
This article focuses on the migration of women from Latin America and Eastern Europe to work with home care of the elderly in Italy. Through an ethnographic approach and based on field research conducted in Bologna with caregivers and their employers the aim of this paper is to discuss: (1) the configuration of this new growing market that responds to the rapid aging of the world's population; (2) how gender, age and nationality produce categories of differentiation and inequality; (3) how the visibility gained by the duo combining two unwanted populations - the elderly and immigrants - redefines forms of dependence, gives new meaning to family relationships, to obligations of the state and to domestic life.
Keywords:
home care; elderly; immigration; family relationships; Bologna; Italy