In the summer of 2023, Italy faced a migration emergency as a large number of people in transit arrived on its shores. Some of these people crossed the country toward north with the aim of reaching France. At one of the border crossings where migrants have to “illegally” cross the border, there is a receiving center, a safe house, managed and supported by various civil society organizations providing humanitarian assistance to those in transit. In Oulx, in northwestern Italy, the daily influx has far exceeded the capacity of the receiving center. According to On Borders data, in that small village, with just over 3,000 inhabitants, there were over a thousand transiting migrants in the month of July. The overcrowding, the emergencial situation, and the semi-legal nature of border solidarity have attracted the attention of various media outlets eager to report and interpret these events. The solidarity component, both institutional and informal, is predominantly composed of women.
This text (here the original bosnian version) arises from the need to find responses and defenses before a video that appeared on the internet a few months ago, published by the YouTube channel ‘The Jolly Heretic’ titled ‘Why do some women treat migrants like children?’. In this video, the speaker aims to provide and prove an evolutionary explanation for the “infantilizing attitude” of women towards people on the move.