Questo contributo esamina gli effetti del volontariato su giovani immigrati in sei paesi europei, concentrandosi sui cambiamenti occorsi dopo un anno di coinvolgimento volontario nel loro senso di appartenenza e nei legami con il luogo di residenza. Lo studio ha dato ampio spazio all'auto-percezione dei volontari, rilevata attraverso metodi qualitativi, ricorrendo all'uso di un "control group". L'ipotesi - che l'esperienza potesse rafforzare il senso di appartenenza con intensità variabile a seconda del background migratorio del partecipante - è stata in parte confermata. L'analisi mostra variazioni apprezzabili in particolare tra i giovani con background migratorio, per chi si è impegnato per più tempo, e tra i giovani con precedente esperienza di volontariato, ad indicare l'importanza di contesti di volontariato che sostengano il capitale sociale di tipo "bridging".
(1) Background: In their efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19, most countries closed schools and kindergartens. To date, little is known about the strategies of working families reconciling work and parenting during repeated lockdown situations. (2) Methods: We performed a quantitative survey of working parents in Italy during a week of ‘hard lockdown’ in February/March 2021. (3) Results: 3725 voluntary adult participants from different households responded. Though officially not allowed, 53.4% of all participants sought help from people outside the nuclear family to bridge the situation, mostly the grandparents (79%; n = 1855). Overall, parental coping strategies included alternating working–childcare-turns with their partner (35%, n = 1316), working early in the morning or during nighttime (23%; n = 850), or leaving the children unattended (25%, n = 929). (4) Conclusions: The closure of schools/kindergartens forcefully shifts the responsibility for childcare onto the nuclear family, where new strategies arose, including health-damaging models of alternating work–childcare-shifts, ‘illegal’ involvement of third parties from outside the nuclear family, as well as neglect of age-related childcare. Our findings underline that working families need additional support strategies during repeated closure of childcare institutions to be able to reduce contact and minimize secondary damage.
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