Women in the driving seat: Eastern European immigrant women's citizenship, participation and educational inclusion in Portugal

This paper is a case study of Eastern European immigrant women's social inclusion in Portugal through civic participation. An analysis of interviews conducted with women leaders and members of two ethnic associations provides a unique insight into their migrant pathways as highly educated women...

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Published in:Citizenship studies 2015-04, Vol.19 (3-4), p.384-399
Main Authors: Araújo, Helena C., Tereshchenko, Antonina, Sousa, Sofia Branco, Jenkins, Celia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Citizenship
Eastern Europe
Education
Immigration
Labour
Leaders
Migrants
participation
Portugal
Violence
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Summary:This paper is a case study of Eastern European immigrant women's social inclusion in Portugal through civic participation. An analysis of interviews conducted with women leaders and members of two ethnic associations provides a unique insight into their migrant pathways as highly educated women and the ways in which these women are constructing their citizenship in new contexts in Northern Portugal. These women's accounts of their immigrant experience embrace both the public realm, in using their own education and their children's as a means of integration but also spill over into 'non-public' familial relationships at home in contradictory ways. These include the sometimes traditional, gender-defined division of labour within the associations and at home and the new ways that they negotiate their relative autonomies to escape forms of violence and subordination that they face as women and immigrants.
ISSN:1362-1025
1469-3593
DOI:10.1080/13621025.2015.1006577