Induced vulnerability: the consequences of racialization for African women in an emergency shelter in Catalonia (Spain)

Jordi Grau Rebollo, Lourdes Lourdes García Tugas, Beatriz Beatriz García García

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The growing presence of African women (especially Moroccans) in the support services for survivors of gender-based violence in Catalonia (Spain) highlights how the perception of difference in contexts of significant cultural diversity can fuel othering processes based on racialized assumptions, which may ultimately lead these women to experience situations of additional vulnerability. Through the results of an anthropological study based on African (mainly Moroccan) women, we show how their racialized “otherness” is a cultural construct resulting from a combination of five main variables: gender, ethnicity, nationality, phenotype and religion. One of the most critical consequences of activating this reductionist mechanism is the creation of additional vulnerability for other women in the same situation.
We then analyze how these women mobilize cultural, ethnic, religious and socioeconomic markers, with results that ultimately impede the formation of sisterhood and mutual support relationships, thus increasing their sense of being neglected and their vulnerability.
Títol traduït de la contribucióVulnerabilidad inducida: consecuencias de la racialización para mujeres africanas en un centro de protección a mujeres en Cataluña (España)
Idioma originalAnglès
Títol de la publicacióUnwritten Afro-Iberian Memories and Histories
EditorsYolanda Aixelà-Cabré
Lloc de publicacióLondres
EditorRoutledge
ISBN (electrònic)9781003582755
Estat de la publicacióePub previa a impressió - 2025

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