Women in the driving seat

Eastern European immigrant women's citizenship, participation and educational inclusion in Portugal

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7724930
AutoresHelena C Araújo (0000-0003-2988-3209, Universidade do Porto), Antonina Tereshchenko (0000-0002-4443-3188, Universidade do Porto), Sofia Sousa (0000-0002-3504-5394, Universidade do Porto), Sofia Branco Sousa, Celia Jenkins (0000-0003-1861-4548, University of Westminster)
Ano2015
Volume19
Fascículo3-4
Páginas384-399
Data de publicação2015-04-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCitizenship Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13621025.2015.1006577
OpenAlexW2130074192
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas25

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

Citizenship · Ethnic group · Immigration · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Realm · Social science · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration