ASSOCIATIONISM
Associationism is a complex phenomenon, a constellation of behaviours, social relations and cultural orientations that reflects the main transformations taking place in civil society. This phenomenology includes those behaviours that encourage collaboration through common action by favouring the interest of the subject to issues not strictly related to their own individual purposes.
The role of associationism assume a specific configuration in today’s societies: recently, in fact, the emergence of associative networks, in a prosocial key, is increasingly frequent, in which there are subjects belonging to a multiplicity of collective subjectivities - members of associations, groups, movements or unions - to which are added activists/volunteers who declare that they have not or have never made any political or humanitarian commitment within an organised group. Similarly, prosocial associationism therefore appears to be a complex and articulated phenomenology both with regard to its aims and modes of action, and to the external context in which it operates. This form of associationism is composed of collective and individual subjectivities that join to create associative networks on several levels, where political influence and humanitarian support can be fulfilled.
The WE-PROPOSE project focuses on networks of prosocial associationism, in particular on networks of associative groups acting in cooperation with the aim of promoting and supporting, at a political and humanitarian level, the return migration of migrant women. In this regard, these associations cooperate in order to support migrant women in areas related to social integration, the labour market, access to rights, contributing to the improvement of their skills.