Migrant's Domestic Work and Remittances: the Results of an Empirical Study

The migration is a complex phenomenon which causes a range of effects in the host countries as in homeland. Every day, a lot of people moves from one country to another for economic or political reasons, with or without a visa, and this unstoppable flow gives birth to problems that are often difficult to solve. If the role of migrates is important for the host countries, it will be essential to check which is the advantage that can result in homeland. Even considering that the international movement of labour, especially the qualified one, may be a limit to the growth of homeland, it cannot recognize the weight that remittances can have for its realization. Migrant women, employed mainly in domestic work, support the shortcomings of the welfare systems of host countries and contribute in homeland to improve families and, from a certain point of view, the local economy. This work is organized in a theoretical and empirical part, which is based on a direct investigation on the Region Apulia’s capital. The purpose of this paper is to check if remittances, mostly undervalued because much more is believed through informal channels, results in consumption and / or productive investment