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ella Urpis
longs to them (Sayad, 2002). It is undoubtedly very difficult to assess one’s
ability of social adaptation and the changes gradually undergone over time
by someone having the status of a migrant in a new social context. One of
the fundamental yet completely neglected indicators to measure the above
concerns the behavioral models between the sexes and the persistence of
actions of patriarchal power (in countries where it is widespread) that re-
strict the life of women and negatively impact their sexual and reproductive
health in particular.
Even in more advanced approaches (Bocacgni & Pollini, 2012; Cesareo &
Blangiardo, 2009) pools of indicators are used in regards to the differing di-
mensions of institutional, relational, cultural, socio-temporal, socio-spatial
existence; however, the relationship between the gender and the conse-
quent to sexual and reproductive healt of women are never observed as
the ‘basket of integrated processes,’ as defined in social science studies
(Sciortino, 2015), does not include them.
The principles of personal freedom and self-determination are at the basis
of the co-habitation system in every democratic host country. An individual’s
freedom is precondition in order for all the other constitutional freedoms to
be guaranteed and it is essential so that an individual can benefit from the
independence required to exercise any other right.
When it comes to women, slavery has always been associated with their
bodies inasmuch as a woman’s sexual and reproductive health is crucial for
her self-determination and represents a fundamental indicator of her degree
of independence and personal freedom.
Besides being a biological experience or a mere instinctive act, human sex-
uality may be viewed more broadly as a social act among individuals, having
a symbolic dimension and leading to social relations and relations with the
environment. Indeed, William Simon e di John H. Gagnon (Rinaldi & Scarcelli,
2016) distance themselves from the idea of sexuality being merely a natural
impulse to be held back by means of rules and rather see it from the perspec-
tive of cultural production (Rinaldi, 2016).
In this light, sexual and reproductive health becomes an indicator of in-
tegration in cultural communities, measured via women’s access to: health
facilities throughout the territory, legal abortion, family planning systems,
learning the language of the host country, freedom of choice on repro-
duction, the abandonment of traditional submissive practices (endogamy,
forced marriage, and female genital mutilation-FGM).
When examining only social, economic, employment, and housing factors,
one might conclude that many immigrants are perfectly integrated as the
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longs to them (Sayad, 2002). It is undoubtedly very difficult to assess one’s
ability of social adaptation and the changes gradually undergone over time
by someone having the status of a migrant in a new social context. One of
the fundamental yet completely neglected indicators to measure the above
concerns the behavioral models between the sexes and the persistence of
actions of patriarchal power (in countries where it is widespread) that re-
strict the life of women and negatively impact their sexual and reproductive
health in particular.
Even in more advanced approaches (Bocacgni & Pollini, 2012; Cesareo &
Blangiardo, 2009) pools of indicators are used in regards to the differing di-
mensions of institutional, relational, cultural, socio-temporal, socio-spatial
existence; however, the relationship between the gender and the conse-
quent to sexual and reproductive healt of women are never observed as
the ‘basket of integrated processes,’ as defined in social science studies
(Sciortino, 2015), does not include them.
The principles of personal freedom and self-determination are at the basis
of the co-habitation system in every democratic host country. An individual’s
freedom is precondition in order for all the other constitutional freedoms to
be guaranteed and it is essential so that an individual can benefit from the
independence required to exercise any other right.
When it comes to women, slavery has always been associated with their
bodies inasmuch as a woman’s sexual and reproductive health is crucial for
her self-determination and represents a fundamental indicator of her degree
of independence and personal freedom.
Besides being a biological experience or a mere instinctive act, human sex-
uality may be viewed more broadly as a social act among individuals, having
a symbolic dimension and leading to social relations and relations with the
environment. Indeed, William Simon e di John H. Gagnon (Rinaldi & Scarcelli,
2016) distance themselves from the idea of sexuality being merely a natural
impulse to be held back by means of rules and rather see it from the perspec-
tive of cultural production (Rinaldi, 2016).
In this light, sexual and reproductive health becomes an indicator of in-
tegration in cultural communities, measured via women’s access to: health
facilities throughout the territory, legal abortion, family planning systems,
learning the language of the host country, freedom of choice on repro-
duction, the abandonment of traditional submissive practices (endogamy,
forced marriage, and female genital mutilation-FGM).
When examining only social, economic, employment, and housing factors,
one might conclude that many immigrants are perfectly integrated as the
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