Abstract
The Bangladeshi community in Rome has grown considerably in recent years, due chiefly to the increasing difficulty in reaching Germany and the UK. To arrive in Italy Bangladeshi citizens have to cross the Mediterranean, with all the inherent risks and difficulties, and pay huge sums of money to human traffickers. Once they are settled in Italy, and have obtained a residence permit or even Italian citizenship, Bangladeshi men return home for a period of time to find a wife, before returning to Italy and setting up a family. The intended final destination of this human mobility is however London, which hosts the biggest Bangladeshi community, with mosques for their children to study religion and schools for them to study in English. Unmarried men in Rome live together in flats in the Esquilino quarter, those with wives and children live in the Tor Pignattara district. Despite the colourful clothes worn by Bangladeshi women, this community is practically invisible, since it cannot be measured using the normal instruments of official statistics. This essay uses the instruments of quantitative and qualitative analysis to contribute towards increasing our level of knowledge about the actual dimension, customs, needs and expectations of the Bangladeshi Community in Rome.
Highlights
To complete the picture of information needed to understand the problems that affect the health of immigrants, twenty in-depth interviews were conducted in the period April-June 2016 on young people aged from 17 to 35 years of age, ten men and ten women, using the template already tried out for the YMOBILITY project
57 There may have been considerable qualitative differences in the migratory experience, yet the differences are small in terms of the expectations, intentions and results of the mobility of youngsters moving around within the EU and of those entering the EU, with great difficulty, as registered or unregistered immigrants, from a non-EU country
58 The qualitative analysis highlights the stress suffered by women, who are forced to live a solitary life in their own flat, and have contact with other residents in the neighbourhood only through maternity, which represents the main form of emancipation for them, allowing them to use medical services when they are pregnant and to socialise with other mothers when their children are growing up
Summary
In Rome they can be procured, especially because I live with my husband in the Tor Pignattara district, which is full of Bangladeshi shops that import all types of spices from Bangladesh, as well as almost all types of fish (frozen) and vegetables (fresh and frozen).” My husband thinks the same way as my father: women have to look after the family, and men have to work. 33 Man (9): “When I arrived in Italy I worked on a market stall, for a time in a shop selling Bangladeshi food items.
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