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In the last decades, important emigration flows of Ukrainian women to Italy has been favoured by demographic and cultural changes, encouraged by structural deficit of Italian labour market, particularly by its national welfare system, that opened new and numerous employment opportunities for immigrants in the informal care system. Despite recording high employment rates, the presence of Ukrainian workers is characterized by occupational segregation, job dissatisfaction, wage penalties and educational mismatch. The aim of this work is to provide an updated picture of occupational profile of migrants women in Italy based on the analysis of Italian Labour Force Survey (IT LFS) 2015, while critically discuss possible straightness and drawbacks of a phenomenon that cannot be considered a “winning” solution for both, migrant women and Italian families, but it instead in the long-term seriously compromises the future balance of the country of origin and of destination of these flows.

Immigrants; Ukrainians; labor force; segregation; Italy