Organizing women migrants: The Filipino and Cape Verdean women’s associations in Rome

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-39
Author(s):  
Wendy Pojmann
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Women ◽  
Cape Verdean ◽  
Women Migrants ◽  
Informal Networks ◽  
Women's Associations ◽  
Women's Organizing ◽  
Main Components ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Female Migrant ◽  
Migrant Groups

Migrant women’s associations in Italy did not simply emerge from informal networks. The Filipino and Cape Verdean women’s associations in Rome are examples of the results of multiple factors that contributed to the strategy of self-organization established by migrant women with the intention of empowering themselves. An awareness of their unique position as women from mostly-female migrant groups, a lack of institutional bodies prepared to assist them, and the leadership of individual women were key aspects in the formation of the first migrant women’s associations in Rome. Gender and nationality were the main components of migrant women’s organizing in the first mostly-female migrant groups. 

scholarly journals Gender and Migration in Greece: The Position and Status of Albanian Women in Patras

Finisterra ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (77) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitra Charalampopoulu
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Women Migrants ◽  
Migration Process ◽  
Greek Society ◽  
Gender And Migration ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Impact

Greece has experienced major changes in its migration patterns.After a century or so of emigration, it has now become a country of immigration. Much academic research has concentrated on the impact this change has on Greek society. However, there is a tendency to ignore the role that gender plays in the migration process. This article addresses the issue of Albanian immigration to Greece, focusing on the aspect of gender. It presents the living and working conditions of Albanian women who migrate to Greece, especially to one of its cities, Patras. It examines the new migration process through the eyes of women migrants. It is centred on their narration about their journey to Greece, their decision to migrate, the problems that they face, their experiences and plans for the future: in short, their life stories. Finally, the article draws attention to the need for further research on issues concerning migrant women in Greece.

Communicating Geoinformation Effectively With Virtual 3d City Models

2010 ◽  
pp. 120-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Jobst ◽  
Jürgen Döllner ◽  
Olaf Lubanski
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Knowledge ◽  
Physical Models ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Learning Mechanisms ◽  
3D City Models ◽  
3D Environments ◽  
Main Components ◽  
Knowledge Structuring ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
City Models

Planning situations are commonly managed by intensive discussions between all stakeholders. Virtual 3D city models enhance these communication procedures with additional visualization possibilities (in opposite to physical models), which support spatial knowledge structuring and human learning mechanisms. This chapter discusses key aspects of virtual 3D city creation, main components of virtual environments and the framework for an efficient communication. It also explores future research for the creation of virtual 3D environments.

scholarly journals Contraceptive use among migrant, second-generation migrant and non-migrant women seeking abortion care: a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted in Sweden

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Emtell Iwarsson ◽  
Elin C Larsson ◽  
Kristina Gemzell-Danielsson ◽  
Birgitta Essén ◽  
Marie Klingberg-Allvin
Keyword(s):  
Second Generation ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Induced Abortion ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Women Migrants ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Abortion Care ◽  
Contraception Use ◽  
Second Generation Migrants

IntroductionThe objective of this study was to compare ever-in life contraception use, use of contraception at current conception, and planned use of contraception after an induced abortion, among three groups of women: migrants, second-generation migrants and non-migrant women, and to compare the types of contraception methods used and intended for future use among the three groups of women.MethodsThe cross-sectional study administered a questionnaire face-to-face to women aged 18 years and older who were seeking abortion care at one of six abortion clinics in Stockholm County from January to April 2015.ResultsThe analysis included 637 women. Migrants and second-generation migrants were less likely to have used contraception historically, at the time of the current conception, and to plan to use contraception after their induced abortion compared with non-migrant women. Historically, non-migrants had used pills (89%) and withdrawal (24%) while migrants had used the copper intrauterine device (24%) to a higher extent compared to the other two groups of women. Both the migrants (65%) and second-generation migrants (61%) were more likely than the non-migrants (48%) to be planning to use long-acting reversible contraception.ConclusionsLower proportions of contraception use were found in migrants and second-generation migrants than in non-migrants. In addition, there were significant differences in the types of contraception methods used historically and intended for future use.

On transience and other hatreds

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-191
Author(s):  
Lita Crociani-Windland
Keyword(s):  
Western Culture ◽  
Group Processes ◽  
Research Tool ◽  
Women Migrants ◽  
Hermeneutic Approach ◽  
The Many ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Extended Reflection

This article originates in a free associative extended reflection on what the author sees as the many faces of our relationship to transience in Western culture. It begins with the image of plastic flowers in graveyards, wild flowers pushed to verges and marginal spaces, women, migrants and transient communities. Our relation to life, death and their relation to movement and limitation are key aspects being reflected on and taken up for further analysis. The result of the free associative experiment is to invite reflections on the Freudian concepts of Eros and Thanatos and revisit the highly controversial question of whether these should be viewed in terms of a dualist or a monistic understanding. What is being presented here is a way of working with free associations outside the consulting room and group processes, using free associations as a reflexive research tool within a psychosocial hermeneutic approach.

scholarly journals SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT IN EUROPE OF RUSSIAN SPEAKING MIGRANTS FROM THE CATEGORY “WOMEN-MIGRANTS ADVANCED”

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 19-27
Author(s):  
Margarita Sandler
Keyword(s):  
Social Adjustment ◽  
Community Organizations ◽  
Family Reunification ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Family Migration ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Women Migrants ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
European Values

The studies, conducted by the IMAGRI Institute in Europe, allow us to answer the question about the attitude of Russian speaking migrants to European values. The Institute started its activities in 2009, in Brussels. The category of migrants WMA (Women-Migrants Advanced) has highly developed cross-cultural communication skills, but in about half the cases it does not solve the problem of self-realization in their careers and in the society – for this category these concepts are inseparable. “Our” category of migrants, whose number has increased in Europe, requires special integration programmes through entrepreneurship, as our project RESTART (2011–2014) has proved its effectiveness. This research was prompted by communication with migrants and monitoring processes that are currently activated in the Russian diaspora. Of course, the focus of our researches and monitoring is a gender (women’s) group. According to many reports, women make the majority of migrants living in Europe, being present in a significant number in all sectors of migration: family migration (both creation and family reunification), intellectual migration (both professionals and specialists as family members), and labour migration (mainly from the post-Soviet area, but not from Russia). They are the “invisible majority” (experts say) in the Russian migration to Europe. However, by working on research projects in the sphere of migrant women, establishing contacts with various community organizations, consulting experts, we drew attention to the fact that, first of all, women are not only a significant part of immigration, but also an extremely active (both socially and culturally) part of it.

Feminist Approaches to Global Migration

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Karleah Harris ◽  
Roseline Jindori Yunusa Vakkia ◽  
Gifty Dede Ashirifi ◽  
Peter McCarthy ◽  
Kieu Ngoc Le
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Global Education ◽  
Personal Autonomy ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Culturally Competent ◽  
Women Migrants ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Global Migration ◽  
International Policies

Women comprise slightly less than half of the total population of immigrants across the world. As advocacy and fight for equal rights, opportunities, and identity for women continue, migration opens doors to global education for immigrant women to obtain personal autonomy, independence, empowerment, and a chance of earning higher wages than what they would have earned in their home countries. On the opposite end, women may also face oppression, gender inequality, and discrimination based on their ethnicity, class, and race through migration. This chapter highlights the rewards and drawbacks experienced by migrant women and feminist theory approaches to global migration. Examining the experience of migrant women using feminist theory underpinnings could potentially lead to deeper understanding and recommendations for international policies as well as evidence-based, culturally competent interventions to assist women migrants.

The Sublime Emerald

2020 ◽  
pp. 112-135
Author(s):  
Jean-François Rougé
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Technical Skills ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
International Organisations ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Successful Business ◽  
Female Migrant

Talented migrant women constitute a main stake for Western economies, especially when they become entrepreneurs. Most international organisations insist on their role in the economic growth. Unfortunately, they face much more ostracism than men during their path to success. In this context, the chapter aims at identifying how education may sustain their challenge first isolating talented migrant women, then giving them managerial tools to transform their technical talent into successful business. The chapter is divided into three sections. First, it analyses the importance of migrant talented women for the host economy. Then, it explores the ways education may shape female migrant talent by avoiding disqualification of recognised talents and identifying raw talents. At last, it highlights the role of education transforming migrant women into successful entrepreneur. Beyond the technical skills, it is suggested that education has to help resizing the role of (migrant) women in the society and of course dispense the appropriate missing skills.

scholarly journals RESPECT for All: The Political Self-Organization of Female Migrant Domestic Workers in the European Union

Refuge ◽  
2003 ◽  
pp. 45-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Schwenken
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Network ◽  
Central Hypothesis ◽  
Trafficking In Women ◽  
Female Migrant ◽  
Migrant Domestic Workers

This contribution focuses on the empowering political practices of RESPECT, the European network for migrant domestic workers. The paper contrasts RESPECT’s empowering approach with that of other actors in which migrant domestic workers are presented as victims and in which the struggle is situated within the discourse of combatting illegal immigration and trafficking in women. The central hypothesis of this paper is that this distinction between female migrant domestic workers constructed as victims of trafficking or as migrant women with subjectivity, voice, and agency is crucial in determining the type of advocacy strategy and (self-)representation of the women.

Donald Trump, the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign, and the Intensification of the Hybrid Media System

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Chadwick
Keyword(s):  
Decisive Role ◽  
Advertising Strategy ◽  
Media System ◽  
System P ◽  
Fact Checking ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Main Components ◽  
Television Coverage ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Facebook Advertising

Chapter 10 extends the conceptual framework to the extraordinary 2016 U.S. election, showing how Donald Trump’s rise and Hillary Clinton’s downfall were enabled by key aspects of the hybrid media system. The chapter deciphers the main components of Trump’s digital campaign, in particular its shift toward an intensive Facebook advertising strategy and its use of targeted advertising to try to reduce turnout among potential Democrat voters. It shows how Trump was able to translate his celebrity capital into political capital through the use of social media, particularly Twitter, to influence press and television coverage. Chapter 10 also discusses how hybrid media played a decisive role in the Women’s March, the biggest single-day protest in U.S. history. The march, when integrated with the actions of professional fact-checking journalists, became an important part of the counter-inauguration that subverted Trump’s ability to set the agenda during his first week in office.

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