Access to Labor Market and Integration of Moroccan Women in Andalusia: The Two Sides of the Coin

Abstract

Given the multifactorial nature of the integration processes of migrants, this article analyzes the correlation between inclusion in the labor market and the integration of Moroccan women residing in Andalusia. An intersectional approach is used, addressing three key variables: youth, gender, and ethnicity. To this end, a qualitative methodology has been developed based on conducting twenty-nine in-depth interviews with Moroccan women residing in Andalusia. Non-probabilistic intentional sampling has been used through the snowball technique. The results have shown the ambivalence that insertion in the labor market implies for these women, being, on the one hand, an area of oppression, rejection, and discrimination, and on the other, one of the essential factors to achieve the full integration of the protagonists, granting them agency and resistance. It concludes by highlighting the importance of favoring the successful transition and inclusion in the labor market of these women, being fundamental to the development of strategies and political proposals aimed at reducing, even eliminating, the structural violence that continues to prevail in this area.

Highly Educated Women: Exploring Barriers and Strategies for Labour Integration in an Emotional Migratory Process

“…This paper explores the gender dynamics associated with the achievement of a job-education match of highly educated migrant women and their strategies to overcome structural and familial constraints. The gender perspective research recognises the fluid nature of gender dynamics that intersect with other social categories of difference (Timmerman et al 2015;Ortega-de-Mora and Terrón-Caro 2023). To understand the complexity of the situation faced by women with advanced degrees at the intersection of the family and the migratory process, we focus on the categories of gender, origin, marriage to a native-born man and migration.…”