TY - JOUR
T1 - The social construction of immigrant women in the discourse of academia
AU - Cea-Merino, Pastor
AU - Galaz Valderrama, Caterine
AU - Montenegro-Martínez, Marisela
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - The present research explores the construction of the immigrant woman as portrayed in the discourse of academia by analyzing the utterances o expert voices connected with academia who participated in an International Congress that raised questions on the subject. We analyzed the contents of judgmental discourses over the woman immigrant subject and about the ways in which a collective imagination emerges about the places and cultural frameworks of her origin, about gender relationships and about life conditions of these women in the host society, with the intention of contributing to emphasize the equalizing effects that those discourses may contain. The results obtained reveal a tension between discourses that make visible the process of subordination that immigrant women undergo in the host society, which stem out of the intersectional operation of a diversity of differentiation axes, and those that emphasize their capacity as agents and their resistance to confront these situations.
AB - The present research explores the construction of the immigrant woman as portrayed in the discourse of academia by analyzing the utterances o expert voices connected with academia who participated in an International Congress that raised questions on the subject. We analyzed the contents of judgmental discourses over the woman immigrant subject and about the ways in which a collective imagination emerges about the places and cultural frameworks of her origin, about gender relationships and about life conditions of these women in the host society, with the intention of contributing to emphasize the equalizing effects that those discourses may contain. The results obtained reveal a tension between discourses that make visible the process of subordination that immigrant women undergo in the host society, which stem out of the intersectional operation of a diversity of differentiation axes, and those that emphasize their capacity as agents and their resistance to confront these situations.
KW - Content analysis
KW - Immigrant women
KW - Inmigrants
KW - Social constructionism
KW - University
U2 - 10.5027/PSICOPERSPECTIVAS-VOL14-ISSUE2-FULLTEXT-599
DO - 10.5027/PSICOPERSPECTIVAS-VOL14-ISSUE2-FULLTEXT-599
M3 - Article
SN - 0718-6924
VL - 14
SP - 28
EP - 39
JO - Psicoperspectivas
JF - Psicoperspectivas
IS - 2
ER -