Immigration experience of Latin American working women in Alicante,
Spain: an ethnographic study
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| Authors: | Liliana González-Juárez Ana Lucía Nore?a-Pe?a Luis Cibanal-Juan |
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| Affiliation: | 2.Doctoral student, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain. Professor, Escuela Nacional de Enfermería y Obstetricia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico;3.PhD, Assistant Professor, Departamento de Enfermería, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain;4.PhD, Professor, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain |
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| Abstract: | OBJECTIVE: to describe the experience of Latin American working women regarding immigration,taking into account the expectations and conditions in which this process takesplace. METHOD: ethnographic qualitative study. Data collection was performed by means ofsemi-structured interviews with 24 Latin American immigrant women in Spain. Theinformation collected was triangulated through two focal groups. RESULTS: the expectations of migrant women focus on improving family living conditions.Social support is essential for their settling and to perform daily lifeactivities. They declare they have adapted to the settlement country, althoughthey live with stress. They perceive they have greater sexual freedom and powerwith their partners but keep greater responsibility in childcare, combining thatwith the role of working woman. CONCLUSIONS: migrant women play a key role in the survival of households, they build andcreate new meanings about being a woman, their understanding of life, their socialand couple relationships. Such importance is shaped by their expectations and theconditions in which the migration process takes place, as well as their workintegration. |
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| Keywords: | Women''s Health Emigration and Immigration Transfer of Experience (Psychology) Anthropology Cultural |
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