wow-inequalities/02-data/intermediate/wos_sample/02515f14c1d47328a0ccdab0af55891c-mussino-eleonora-an/info.yaml

abstract: 'The Italian welfare state is characterised by a preference for income

  transfers over transfers in kind and the marginal role of policies aimed

  directly at supporting the family. Despite the growing participation of

  women in the labour market, the Italian welfare system still assumes the

  family, with its unbalanced gender division of housework and its

  intergenerational solidarity, to be the primary provider of protection

  and support. As a result, in Italy in 2019 only 26.9\% of children under

  3 years of age were enrolled in formal childcare, which is below the

  European average. In this context, births from at least one foreign

  parent had increased over time, and foreign national children accounted

  for 14.0\% of all children aged 0-3 in 2019. Despite this, migrants are

  still seen as `suppliers'' rather than citizens who, as parents, are

  potential consumers of childcare services. Aspects related to the use of

  childcare by migrants and differences compared to natives in Italy are

  currently understudied. We use the 2012 Birth Sample Survey by the

  Italian National Institute of Statistics to fill this gap. Mothers were

  interviewed about 18-21 months after having given birth: information on

  sociodemographic characteristics of both parents was collected,

  including their use of childcare services, their reasons for not using

  them, their unmet need for childcare services, and the lack of access to

  the job market due to care work. Our study aims to understand childcare

  patterns among migrants and the differences between them and those of

  the native-born population. We found that Italian mothers use informal

  care more than migrants. Unlike the evidence from other international

  studies, our results show that migrant mothers use daycare for children

  aged 0-3 more than native-born mothers. However, we found that the

  migrants who had arrived as children show patterns more similar to

  natives. This finding might be associated with a better knowledge of the

  system and a more extensive network (including grandparents) in Italy.

  Similarly, we found that migrant mothers who co-parent with an Italian

  father use more informal care and experience lower logistical barriers

  to accessing daycare. In addition, we observed that obstacles to

  children''s enrolment resulting in an unmet need for daycare are also

  related to migrant background.'
affiliation: 'Mussino, E (Corresponding Author), Stockholm Univ, Sociol Inst, Demog
  Avdelningen, Demog Unit SUDA, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden.

  Mussino, Eleonora, Stockholm Univ, Sociol Inst, Demog Avdelningen, Demog Unit SUDA,
  S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden.

  Ortensi, Livia Elisa, Univ Bologna, Dept Stat Sci Paolo Fortunati Alma Mater Studiorum,
  Via Belle Arti 41, Bologna, Italy.'
article-number: '16'
author: Mussino, Eleonora and Ortensi, Livia Elisa
author-email: eleonora.mussino@sociology.su.se
author_list:
- family: Mussino
  given: Eleonora
- family: Ortensi
  given: Livia Elisa
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1186/s41118-023-00197-7
eissn: 2035-5556
files: []
journal: GENUS
keywords: Informal childcare; Daycare; Italy; Migrants
keywords-plus: 'IMMIGRANT WOMEN; SCHOOL READINESS; EDUCATION; WORK; MOTHERS; FAMILY;

  PARTICIPATION; EMPLOYMENT; PRESCHOOL; PREDICTORS'
language: English
month: JUN 19
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '88'
orcid-numbers: Mussino, Eleonora/0000-0002-5311-4277
papis_id: 1c3635b2b7509076a3b8a664ee72b7db
ref: Mussino2023childcareitaly
times-cited: '0'
title: 'Childcare in Italy among migrants and natives: who uses which type and why?'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:001008667000001
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '1'
volume: '79'
web-of-science-categories: Demography
year: '2023'