Citizenship Studies
Volume 19, Issue 3-4, 2015, Pages 384-399

Women in the driving seat: Eastern European immigrant women's citizenship, participation and educational inclusion in Portugal (Article)

Araújo H.C.* , Tereshchenko A. , Sousa S.B. , Jenkins C.
  • a Centre for Research in Education (CIIE/FPCE), University of Porto, Rua Alfredo Allen, Porto, 4200-135, Portugal
  • b Centre for Research in Education (CIIE/FPCE), University of Porto, Rua Alfredo Allen, Porto, 4200-135, Portugal
  • c Centre for Research in Education (CIIE/FPCE), University of Porto, Rua Alfredo Allen, Porto, 4200-135, Portugal
  • d Department of Sociology, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom

Abstract

This paper is a case study of Eastern European immigrant women's social inclusion in Portugal through civic participation. An analysis of interviews conducted with women leaders and members of two ethnic associations provides a unique insight into their migrant pathways as highly educated women and the ways in which these women are constructing their citizenship in new contexts in Northern Portugal. These women's accounts of their immigrant experience embrace both the public realm, in using their own education and their children's as a means of integration but also spill over into ‘non-public’ familial relationships at home in contradictory ways. These include the sometimes traditional, gender-defined division of labour within the associations and at home and the new ways that they negotiate their relative autonomies to escape forms of violence and subordination that they face as women and immigrants. © 2015 Taylor & Francis.

Author Keywords

Portugal Education citizenship Participation Immigration

Index Keywords

participatory approach autonomy social inclusion Portugal citizenship educational development womens status gender role immigrant population
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84939269983&doi=10.1080%2f13621025.2015.1006577&partnerID=40&md5=0ffefa09233ff85066844d0d5e19e9b5
DOI: 10.1080/13621025.2015.1006577
ISSN: 13621025
Original Language: English