Families, nations and generations in women's international migration

Abstract

Four experiences of women´s migration from Recife to Europe are examined emphasizing sociability between generations, families and gender relations. The genealogical method is used as a tool to understand the logic of relatedness and mobility. Elder women's genealogies reveal the importance of kin relations and of Recife being a city of plural migrant destinations. Generational and gender hierarchies influence decisions about caretaking, cleaning, marriages and mobility. Women´s group solidarity is counterbalanced by male initiatives and patrilateral privileges in migration events. Redefinitions and reaffirmations of generational hierarchies are narrated in relation to migrant autonomy and subordination. Family references are seen as available mechanisms to circumvent national legal barriers to mobility. Informants' accounts of migrant experience relegate opinions about national and cultural differences as secondary to discourse about family and kin obligations. Migrants establish some autonomy and confront sociopolitical structures, even when facing double gender subordination and insertion in hierarchical kin networks.

Revisiting notions of sex trafficking and victims

“…The woman who owned this club in The third type of travel, that which involves informal networks of friends, acquaintances and relatives who are already living in Spain, is the most common among my informants. These networks are analogous to those used by other types of Latin American migrants and, in the past, Brazilian internal migrants who came down from the north and northeast of the country to look for work in the southeast (Scott, 2011). The main difference is that the networks that are activated to gain work in the European sex industry are basically made up of women and, in particular, friends, neighbors and relatives.…”

Ciências Sociais Hoje: Antropologia

“…riadas de cosubstancialidade (Machado, 2010;. A constante circulação de pessoas, dinheiro, objetos e encomendas (Lobo, 2008;Vasconcelos, 2018) e o investimento em projetos familiares -como a construção da "casa" familiar que impulsiona, muitas vezes, o próprio projeto migratório (Handerson, 2010(Handerson, , 2015Machado, 2010; -mobilizam e movimentam tanto os que partem quanto os que ficam, produzindo parentesco e novas práticas de maternidade (Capernedo;Nardi, 2017) e de organização familiar (Jardim, 2007;Scott, 2011;Scott et al, 2015).…”

Os emaranhados fios de pertencimento

“…Com notáveis exceções (ver, por exemplo, JARDIM, 2016;MCCALLUM;BUSTAMENTE, 2012;SCOTT, 2011;STRAW et al, 2016;UZIEL et al, 2006), tanto no Brasil como em outros lugares -os estudos sobre parentesco, geralmente centrados em sociedades tribais ou rurais, têm como premissa a relativa estabilidade do grupo observado. Lidando com a internação compulsória de pacientes com hanseníase e a separação forçada de membros da família, somos levados a considerar como eventos críticos interrompem a vida rotineira e geram novos modos de ação.…”