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Resumen: La precariedad que caracteriza al empleo doméstico en España no es nueva, sin embargo, la emergencia sanitaria provocada por el covid-19 la ha agudizado. La situación migratoria de gran parte de las empleadas, así como la informalidad que prevalece en este nicho laboral, se han distinguido como elementos de mayor vulnerabilidad para este colectivo en el contexto de la pandemia. En este texto analizamos el impacto del covid-19 sobre el empleo de hogar y los cuidados en el contexto español, en concreto recuperamos la experiencia de trabajadoras domésticas de la ciudad de Zaragoza (España), resaltando sus dificultades laborales, sociales y sanitarias, así como las estrategias empleadas para enfrentar las consecuencias de la pandemia.

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Este artículo analiza la respuesta del Servicio de Atención Domiciliaria de Barcelona ante la primera oleada de la pandemia del COVID-19, entre marzo y mayo de 2020. Mediante un trabajo sistemático de observación participante, mostramos el proceso de toma de decisiones de emergencia para la salvaguarda de un servicio esencial, incidiendo en la determinante contribución de las trabajadoras, mujeres de origen inmigrante, para afrontar las dificultades sobrevenidas. Destacamos la oportunidad de visibilizar y prestigiar socialmente la economía de cuidados mediante prácticas como la institución de un espíritu de equipo, la valoración de la participación de las trabajadoras en las decisiones y su demostrada capacidad de adaptación, especialmente valorada por los usuarios más vulnerables.

El movimiento migrante en contra de las deportaciones en Estados Unidos ha sido ampliamente estudiado en los últimos quince años. Aunque el género como categoría de análisis fue incorporado tempranamente, las experiencias de mujeres migrantes de primera generación en este movimiento han sido poco documentadas. A partir de una investigación etnográfica, el presente artículo analiza las experiencias generizadas, asociadas al trabajo político y de cuidados, atravesadas por la clase, de mujeres migrantes de primera generación, activistas en el movimiento migrante local de Austin, Texas. Esto, con la intención de comprender los significados que le otorgan a su quehacer político, y cómo estas formas de entender la política desdibujan demarcaciones tajantes entre lo público y lo privado, que cuestionan las formas androcéntricas de pensar los movimientos sociales y la participación política.

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El perfil de las mujeres encarceladas por tráfico de drogas en España ha ido cambiando en los últimos años. Cuantitativamente, hay menos mujeres extranjeras en prisión, proceso que se ha producido en paralelo al descenso generalizado de los datos totales de criminalidad conocida y las de internamiento en prisión. Sin embargo, estudios cualitativos muestran que el origen étnico sigue siendo uno de los factores determinantes para el ingreso de mujeres a prisión por tráfico de drogas, estando sobrerrepresentadas en las diferentes etapas del proceso penal, especialmente, las mujeres extranjeras. En este estudio, analizamos las distintas situaciones que, previsiblemente, en los últimos cinco años, han impactado en las cifras oficiales de criminalidad por tráfico de drogas, con el objetivo de determinar si, efectivamente, los datos y perfiles inicialmente identificados en nuestros trabajos previos, se mantienen, o si se han producido cambios reales, en la respuesta penal.

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Este artículo tiene como objetivo analizar las diversas trayectorias de mujeres inmigrantes desde su llegada al País Vasco. Para ello, se observan los efectos, vivencias y limitaciones de su paso por un programa residencial para mujeres con menores a cargo, así como su situación económico-laboral y residencial actual. Para conocer esta realidad, se han realizado quince entrevistas en profundidad a mujeres inmigrantes que fueron usuarias del recurso durante los últimos quince años. Las principales conclusiones derivadas del análisis son, entre otras, la fuerte presencia del sinhogarismo encubierto y de estrategias relacionales entre las mujeres para no acabar en la calle; el enclaustramiento laboral en sectores feminizados muy precarios e inestables que no les permiten salir de una continua espiral de precariedad y exclusión, así como la importancia de programas de largo alcance con una mirada holística e interseccional de la inclusión social más allá del ámbito laboral, que contemplen el acompañamiento psicológico y la reparación de las múltiples violencias. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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At all normative levels, family migration law can disproportionally and negatively affect immigrant women’s rights in this field, producing gendered effects. In some cases, such effects are related to the normative and judicial imposition of unviable family-related models (e.g., the ʻgood mother ̕ the one-breadwinner family, or a rigid distinction between productive and reproductive work). In other cases, they are due to family migration law’s overlooking of the specific needs and difficulties of immigrant women, within their families and in the broader context of their host countries’ social and normative framework.To effectively expose and correct this gender bias, in this article I propose an alternative view of immigrant women’s right to family life, as a cluster of rights and entitlements rather than as a mono-dimensional right. As a theoretical approach, this construction is better equipped to capture the complex experiences of immigrant women in the European legal space, and to shed light on the gendered effects generated not by individual norms but by the interaction of norms that are traditionally assigned to separated legal domains (e.g., immigration law and criminal law). As a judicial strategy, this understanding is capable of prompting a consideration by domestic and supranational courts of immigrant women not as isolated individuals, but as ‘individuals in context’. I shall define this type of approach as ‘contextual interpretation’, understood as the consideration of immigrant women in the broader contexts of their families, their host societies and the normative frameworks applicable to them. Performed in a gendersensitive manner, a contextual judicial interpretation has the potential to neutralize the gendered effects of certain family migration norms. To illustrate these points, I will discuss selected judicial examples offered by the European Court on Human Rights, as well as from domestic jurisdictions of countries with a particularly high incidence of immigrant women (Italy and Spain).

Este artículo analiza de manera comparativa los cuidados a domicilio destinados a personas mayores en las capitales de España y Francia. A través de una metodología cualitativa que combina entrevistas y observación participante se comparan los servicios de ayuda a domicilio y el empleo de hogar en ambas ciudades. De esta forma se pone de manifiesto cómo las dimensiones moral, emocional y material se articulan en el desempeño del trabajo. Este análisis contribuye a “desnaturalizar” el trabajo de cuidados mostrando que los empleos pueden ser definidos de múltiples formas, implicando límites muy diferentes en la definición de las tareas, la cualificación requerida, los tiempos y las relaciones de trabajo.

RESUMEN: Se presenta una descripción cuantitativa de la importancia de las mujeres y personas de origen andino en España, y sus variaciones, sobre todo, desde la década del 2000 hasta la actualidad; destacando el colectivo nacional boliviano como más feminizado y presentando las menores variaciones en el total de población. A partir de tales datos se continúa exponiendo la relación entre los procesos inmigratorios en España, el caso concreto de mujeres de la Región andina, con la estructura del mercado laboral español y distintos mecanismos políticos cómo los Procesos de Regularización, Sistemas de Cuotas, Convenios Bilaterales, imposición del Visado y Políticas de Retorno y Nacionalización, que han incentivado tales procesos migratorios y que condicionarán y determinarán las posiciones sociales de estas mujeres. ABSTRACT: his paper shows a quantitative’s importance description of women and people of andean origin in Spain and its variations especially from the 2000s to the present; the Bolivian national collective is highlighted as the more feminized and the one presenting the smallest variations in relation to the totality of population. Starting from these data the relationship between immigration processes in Spain with the case of women in the Andean Region, and the structure of Spanish labor market as well as its relationship with different policy mechanisms as Regularization Processes, Quota System, Bilateral Agreements, Visa imposition, Return and Naturalization Policies, which have encouraged such migration processes and that will shape and define the social status of these women.

Numerous studies have investigated racist, classist and sexist divisions in the labour market, both on a global and national level. The aim of this article is to examine the way in which integration policy relates to this process, by focussing more particularly on the 'Jobs' section of the French Welcome and Integration Contract (CAI: Contrat d'accueil et d'intégration). According to the French Office of Immigration and Integration (OFII - Office français de l'immigration et de l'intégration), which manages this programme, the professional skills assessment works to support participants' entry into the labour market allowing them to quickly get a job. However, direct observations made during professional skills assessments show that the practices of OFII agents and its service providers contribute to directing immigrants, in particular women, towards insecure, low-qualified jobs and socially undervalued sectors of activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Ebun Joseph Akpoveta was born in Nigeria in 1970. She is originally from Okpe in the State of Edo but she was later raised in Benin City. Her primary degree is in Microbiology from the University of Benin in Nigeria. Her professional career started in the State of Lagos and she was the Administrative Secretary for the Nigerian Britain Association before she moved to Ireland back in 2002. Since her arrival in Ireland, Ebun Joseph Akpoveta has been engaged in various activities and has been a prolific and pro-active member of the Nigerian community in her new home country. While in Ireland she has also furthered her academic instruction and has been a student of various postgraduate programmes. She obtained a Master's degree in Education, Adult Guidance and Counselling from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. She was recently awarded a Ph.D. by the UCD School of Social Justice in Equality Studies, one of her many passions apart from literature and writing. Ebun Joseph Akpoveta is also an equality activist, a career coach and a motivational speaker. She is an IACP-accredited counsellor and has great experience working with immigrants in Ireland. With this main cause in mind she founded The Unforgettable Women's Network - TUWN which advocates for equality between men and women. She is a founding member of the African Women Writers Ireland, a Member of RTÉ Audience Council, and a columnist for the African Voice Newspaper. Ebun Joseph Akpoveta's first book, Becoming Unforgettable. Uncovering the Essence of the Woman (2012), had the format of a counselling, self-help volume for women who need to articulate their experiences and cope with different plights. Her debut into fiction was with the harrowing novel Trapped: Prison without Walls (2013); here she embarks on the narration of difficult ordeals by immigrant African women in their new "host" country, Ireland. With this novel, Ebun Joseph Akpoveta interrogates the manner by which literary discourses in post Celtic Tiger Ireland challenge, elide or accommodate issues of globalization, immigration, and the notion of multiculturalism. With her fiction, Ebun Joseph Akpoveta questions muchused celebratory accounts of Irish multiculturalism, at least in media and political discourses, as integrationist and inclusive of the "Other", and in particular, the female Other. Ebun Joseph Akpoveta lives in Dublin with her beloved family. I would like to thank her for her patience and kindness in collaborating to expand and finalise the present written version of her interview through e-mail. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years there has occurred a significant increase in the immigrant population resident in Spain. And if at the beginning of phenomenon of migration they emigrated alone men, nowadays a growing number of women are migrating, or as result of family re-unification, or as migration projects of themselves. This work aims to analyze, through a review of published literature, what are the factors that affect the sexual and reproductive health of immigrant women and what are the main barriers that they have on standardized access to the health services. In conclusion we can highlight that previous studies have shown that there are a number of factors that influence the sexual and reproductive health of female immigrants and that there is less use of health services for these, since there are multiple barriers that obstruct a normal integration in the public health system.

El objetivo de esta investigación fue conocer la situación de inmigración de mujeres sudamericanas en la región de Antofagasta (Chile) y construir un modelo teórico para su análisis. Las participantes de este estudio fueron 19 mujeres de entre 18 y 50 años, residentes en la ciudad de Antofagasta y provenientes de Perú, Bolivia y Colombia. Los principales hallazgos sugirieron un modelo dinámico, en el que se tensiona la identidad social y de género de las mujeres inmigrantes ante la búsqueda de coherencia dentro de sus espacios vitales. Advertimos en la interacción con la sociedad receptora, la imposición de nuevas categorías sociales a cambio de integración basada en la asimilación. No obstante, también se observan formas de resistencia frente a dicho proceso.

Background: Immigrant women often experience health inequities, whether for reasons of gender, country of origin, or socioeconomic status. The view of immigrant women has always focussed on their needs, without taking into account their available assets. A salutogenic approach incorporating an assets analysis could provide a new perspective on the design of health promotion interventions to reduce health inequities. The study objective was to identify the assets of this group of women as a necessary first step in changing the paradigm used in such health promotion interventions.Methods: This qualitative study combined focus groups, in-depth interviews, and a photovoice session. The aim was to describe the assets of this group, based on Antonovsky's salutogenic approach and assets model. Qualitative results were interpreted with a phenomenological focus, identifying each individual's internal, community, and institutional assets.Results: The self awareness of skills was linked to a person's description of herself as being optimistic, having religious beliefs, and having motivations and objectives in life, for herself, her family or her children. Being motivated helped the women to persist in doing or learning things that could be useful in confronting difficult situations. Another selfawareness skill was feeling useful to others, whether this was due to religious beliefs about their role in life or to the importance of the mutual support of interpersonal relationships.Conclusions: High optimism, strong capacity for struggle and self-initiative, the importance of religious beliefs, social support, and concern for their children's future were described as assets of immigrant women. Identification of these assets allows us to develop more in-depth knowledge and better tools for health promotion programs and policies intended to reduce health inequities in this population of immigrant women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to pay attention to the ways in which immigrant settlement societies deal with those who are considered as «other»; in this case, immigrant women. Specifically, our focus is on employment and social inclusion strategies targeted to facilitate these women's social and work inclusion. Our exploratory field work has been carried out in two social resources which are aimed at work inclusion for immigrant women, both of them located in the Barcelona's Raval district. The techniques used were participant observation and interview. Departing from the description of some examples of interactions established within such entities, we identify how immigrant women are required to do adjustments and / or changes in their behaviour in order to make a proper use of such resources and promote their social and employment insertion. These requirements are critically interpreted in the light of Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and symbolic violence or symbolic domination, reviewed by some critics. These concepts allow us to reflect on the different interactions that occur in these devices. Furthermore, they shed light on the complexity of immigrant women's integration processes into society. The results of empirical research show that immigrant women are orientated to care and domestic work. Other examples confirm a kind of devaluation of the native language of immigrant women and of the visible manifestations of their religion. Even if it is possible to find other forms of interaction in social services; we argue the importance of recognizing these hierarchized forms of interaction in order to facilitate a critical perspective on disciplines involved in social intervention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

En este artículo examino las redes sociales de mujeres inmigrantes latinoame-ricanas de bajos ingresos residentes en barrios con concentración de viviendas de protección oficial en la ciudad de Boston, utilizando un marco conceptual que dife-rencia las redes sociales que proporcionan apoyo de aquellas que facilitan el progre-so personal. El análisis etnográfico con observación participante y entrevistaslongitudinales, que se llevaron a cabo durante 4 años, presta especial atención acómo generan las encuestadas el capital social con el que obtener recursos para lamovilidad social. Mientras que la heterogeneidad en las redes sociales mostró ser elfactor más significativo en la movilidad social, los resultados sugieren que los lazosque hacen de palanca funcionan más efectivamente en la creación de oportunida-des cuando actúan como puentes que conectan a las mujeres con redes en nivelesmás altos de la estructura social, y cuando las mujeres disponen de apoyo para elprogreso personal entre sus lazos fuertes. Al contrario, las dinámicas propias de lafamilia patriarcal fueron el factor más significativo en la evitación de la formación yel funcionamiento de redes de movilidad, dejando a las mujeres estancadas en sulucha por la supervivencia. A un nivel más general, la naturaleza longitudinal deeste estudio etnográfico arroja luz sobre las condiciones que afectan a las perspec-tivas de movilidad de las mujeres del grupo minoritario más amplio de los EstadosUnidos, del que se sabe poco.

Los movimientos migratorios han sido, cada vez más, tema de análisis bajo diferentes perspectivas, en la contemporaneidad. En este artículo se presentan los resultados de una investigación realizada a mujeres brasileñas y africanas, residentes en Portugal, con respecto a su integración en el país y sus condiciones de salud sexual y reproductiva, considerándose el estatuto de migrantes. El objetivo es presentar algunas reflexiones acerca de las condiciones de salud de las poblaciones migrantes, a partir de la perspectiva de las ciencias sociales y, en particular, de las mujeres que fueron sujetos de la investigación realizada. Por lo tanto, se organizaron grupos focales en Portugal, con testimonios relacionados con los temas mencionados. Esos testimonios constituyen parte del cuerpo del texto e indican cuestiones relevantes y preocupantes acerca de la complejidad y los impactos que tienen que ver con los movimientos migratorios

This article constrasts the representation of women and immigrant minors as social actors following the theoretical framework proposed by Theo van Leeuwen (2008). The corpus of examples belongs to the news items from the radio and television programs called Hora Sur Andalucía and Canal Sur Noticias respectively; they were collected between 1 April and 31 July 2011 This corpus is part of the following project: Proyecto de Excelencia de la Junta de Andalucía. Reference: TIC-6517. Call: 2010 "Immigration discourses in Andalusian mass media: the discursive and visual construction of the new Andalusia", University of Granada, Institute of Migration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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