Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

The analysis of women's migratory processes has increased in recent years. The changes in migratory flows and the growing interest of the scientific community in interpreting and understanding these phenomena from a gender perspective have contributed to giving visibility to the experiences of migrant women and their families.  And, simultaneously, to identify the need for an intersectional approach in reading the situation of these women. This article presents the case study of a Cape Verdean immigrant woman in Portugal and aims to understand the application of public policies in the field of inclusion support. To achieve this objective, we attempted to take a holistic approach to their migratory journey. For data collection, semi-structured interviews were used and the answers were subjected to content analysis. According to the speech of this immigrant woman, the main objective of her migratory project is to guarantee her children educational opportunities to continue their studies, which, in her opinion, will provide her with a better life.  Two striking results stand out: the fact that she has always had a job, even though during her professional career she has changed jobs; and the successful school career of her seven children. We conclude that despite some constraints encountered along the way, overcoming and resilience are evidenced and characterise this case as a success story of successful inclusion.

Existing analyses of transnational migration often highlight a growing demand for female migrant labour, as migrant women from Global South are geared into household services and care work in more affluent countries of the Global North. The actual demand for low skill labour means that migrant men and women fill the positions of undervalued and low-paid work avoided by “native” populations in host societies. This remains poorly reflected in state policies that predominantly define and regulate immigrants’ positions in terms of limitations. A growing body of research on migrant women’s integration has also in Slovenia been focusing on their position in the labour market, problematising deskilling and socio-economic exclusion, as well as describing their various coping strategies and agency in counteracting experiences of discrimination and downward social mobility. Drawing on new empirical data comprising migrant women’s narratives and their voices assembled in an online survey, in this paper we argue that migration should also be viewed as empowerment and a personal success story for many migrant women. We particularly highlight the socio-educational aspect of language acquisition as one of the key aspects of migrant integration, and offer new insight in terms of how the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced the integration processes of female migrants in Slovenia.

The growing arrival of the migrant population in the European context has become one of the central axes of debate at a political and social level, given the repercussion that this reality has on the societies of origin, transit and destination. Women represent approximately half of this population, and this phenomenon must be addressed from a gender perspective. In this context, the project Voices of Immigrant Women (VIW) (2020-1-ES01-KA203-082364) arises, whose purpose is to address from the sicio-educational field the important challenge that female migration represents in Europe. This article aims to contextualize the VIW project; to show its current state and the methodological design, as well as to present some of the results obtained during the field work carried out in Spain. The method used has been the Multiple Case Study, through the implementation of a mixed approach methodology, applying a great diversity of techniques. Among the results presented, the legal, health, sociocultural, educational, labor/economic spheres have been analyzed and how these influence the integration process of migrant women residing in Spain. It concludes by reflecting the importance of training the different agents involved in the integration process of migrant women to ensure adequate management and attention to migration.

This article was based on qualitative interviews within the EU project Voices of Immigrant Women. It aims to reconstruct the migratory journey of the different women. In the first part of this article, we present the contradictions of France's national, regional and local integration measures for migrant women. In the second part, through the heterogenic stories of five women, we show how the so-called integration of immigrant women is promoted. Their profiles cover different generations, countries, documented/undocumented status, highly skilled/few qualified, and political participation. This part analyzes the individual strategies adopted by migrant women by recentering on the labour market issue. It underlined the high education as a tool of integration, social services and professional skills as indispensable assets for the labour market, political engagement in trade union and human rights activism as a way out of forced labour. We question the epistemological political framework that constructs the “successful” integration criteria on individual criteria. Finally, we examine that migrant women in France are subject to a series of paradoxical injunctions, and the norms to which they must conform reveal multiple contradictions related to their origins, religions, gender, skin colors, etc. Especially in the actual political context where the migrant women are the ideal figure to illustrate tensions surrounding the question of migration and the role of women.

The article content is based on findings derived from the research carried out within the international VIW Project (Voices of Immigrant Women), interested in transnational human mobility with a focus on female migrations and gender issues in Europe. While addressing some main categories that emerged from the empirical research conducted with migrant women, special attention is paid to the set of challenges, opportunities and possible solutions that migrant women meet during their migration experience. The article aims to highlight the important role of networks, on the one hand, and of the social inclusion strategies that migrant women put into practice, on the other, in the processes of overcoming the challenges faced and identifying the opportunities offered by the social context in which they find themselves living in emigration.

Reseña La nueva Atenas del Mediterráneo. Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, cultura y educación popular en Valencia (1890-1931)

Reseña Atención a la diversidad cultural en el contexto educativo. Claves y aportaciones para la escuela inclusiva

In 1744, the parish of Saints Justa and Rufina de Orihuela began an expansion of its auxiliary spaces with the construction of a new sacristy and pre-church. The plan and layout were made by the prestigious Valencian architect Jaime Bort. The study of the original documentation referring to the parochial agreements, the factory accounts, the chapters, the auctions and the view of the works allow to establish the uniqueness of the construction, an example of architectural design to the taste of the moment, the Rococo, in the interior decorative aspects, both in the cornices, carpentry, and in the line of the pavement itself, in conjunction with traditional construction systems, in this case with the use of the traditional partitioned vault.

This article addresses the advertising of cement published in the Spanish architecture and construction magazines during the 1925-1936 period. Its research allowed to confirm the existence of a vanguard drawn around the advertising of this basic material in one of the most important sectors in the economy of the country: construction. One of the elements that most characterize this vanguard is the use of forced perspectives and unusual points of view in the drawing of architectures and civil works. This was intended to highligt the enormous possibilities of reinforced concrete, derivative of cement that expanded in our country during those years, overcoming the initial reluctance of a part of the architects and builders that were attached to the almost exclusive materials until that moment: stone, wood, ceramics and iron.

The old Fuze Workshop of the Toledo Arms Factory, currently Technological Campus of the University of Castilla-La Mancha, is in process of becoming the School of Architecture permanent seat. This industrial site was built a hundred years ago by the artillery officer Calixto Serichol e Ibáñez (1884-1936). Amateur Cervantist and member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and Historical Sciences of Toledo, Serichol was a significant participating in the first moments of the Spanish Civil War.