La violenza sui minori nelle famiglie con background migratorio: indicazioni dalle ricerche

The paper provides, through an analysis of national and international literature, an overview of the phenomenon of child maltreatment in families with a migrant background. Having defined the forms that child abuse can take, the micro, meso and macrosystemic causes closely related to each other are investigated. The literature identifies the stress triggering violence towards immigrant minors as a result of multiple factors overwhelming adults. Interventions to prevent and manage the phenomenon must therefore take into account this complexity in which cultural, social, political and structural elements act. Training of socio-educational workers is needed that can produce cultural sensitivity and detect the ambiguity of a rigid reading of migrants’ cultural identity.