Immigrant women, jobs, new professional skills

Résumé

The present contribution shows three possible interpretations through which to
read the concept of “new professional skills” about immigrant women: 1. To refer to the project of rebirth, re-planning and reconstruction of a personal and professional identity that immigrant women attach to work; 2. To ascribe a category of “novelty” to the jobs held by immigrant women, for the fact that, even though it is not about new jobs, they are particularly required because they are not performed by autochthonous women for many reasons; 3. To draw the attention to new professional skills to form, in order to face “women-immigration-job” emergency.
It is an attempt that has not the expectation to draw a conclusion, but
rather to present some possible, even unusual, perspectives of interpretation, reflection and research.