Athenea Digital
Volume 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 113-132

Dynamics of diferenciation and subjectivation in social services for migrant women in the city of Barcelona [Dinámicas de subjetivación y diferenciación en servicios sociales para mujeres inmigradas en la ciudad de Barcelona] (Article)

Martínez M.M.* , Valderrama C.G. , Yufra L. , Quitana K.M.
  • a Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
  • b Àmbit d'Investigació i Difusió María Corral, Spain
  • c Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
  • d Fundació AKWABA, Spain

Abstract

Social interventions designed and implemented at service provision for migrated women, produce domination effects by means of strategies of social differentiation that have significant effects in the field of subjectivity, and that are important to elucidate. Parting from the study of social practices and discourses deployed within the services that attend migrant women in Barcelona, we can observe the processes of subjectification in terms of gender, national origin and socioeconomic status. These processes have as one of its main effects the constitution of the social category "woman of the third world" (Mohanty, 2003), a subject that -understood like "the cultural other"- is necessary to educate in order to promote social and labour insertion in the society of reception, evading the particular experiences and, in much cases, the social inequallitiies present in the context taht affect their lives.

Author Keywords

Social services Migration subjectification Differentiation

Index Keywords

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-79960477766&partnerID=40&md5=0e185c272c8d5ba868fd5452eb2bc887

ISSN: 15788946
Cited by: 10
Original Language: Spanish