The moment of contact between migrant women with the health sector identified in that of childbirth and care is a significant time from a personal and collective point of view. The starting point of a new family unit in another cultural context turns out to be an important moment to address issues related to the transmission of culture, the management of the network in a phase of rooting and the comparison of subjects with well-defined regulatory and social frameworks. The importance of the migration network (Bunse 2019) before and during the migratory experience has already been dealt with in sociology but the possible influence of this, both positive and negative, in the integration process and during transition phases in which we deal with the theme of health or the problematization of tradition and culture of origin need further deepening (Corvino 2021). The network can facilitate anticipatory socialization processes and support subjects in their socio-economic integration into the destination country but can also cause distress at the individual and network level. Origin country networks guarantee support and protection but also could represent the possibility of a partial closure to the experience of life in a new context.

This on field study (Careggi Hospital in Florence, survey of second-level sources and qualitative interviews with the health personnel who usually deal with these women) aimed at assessing the “resistance level” of migrants to new cultural approaches perceived as an attack to identity while creating understanding of the issue for both the researcher as well as the interviewees. Sometimes the difficulty of communication and attribution of meaning to certain actions can lead to problematic differences. This has been a preliminary experimental study that will need further investigation and more quantitative and quantitative analysis.