Women’s agency in international migration processes: An epistemological approach

Abstract

This article aims to analyze how the community of Latin American women living in Barcelona display their agency ability, considering how processes of inclusion and exclusion tend to constitute certain synergies that place them as active subjects in the migration becoming. The theoretical framework is developed from the main contributions that have been done in the area of migration studies, focusing mainly on those that have used gender as an analytic category and those that have incorporated a transnational perspective. In addition, approaches that have theorized about the processes of exclusion and inclusion are presented, then the concept of key feminist agency is introduced. Thus, and from an analysis model that emerges from the theoretical and empirical work with twenty-five Latin American women in Barcelona, Spain, between 2015 and 2016, different ways are observed in which women strengthen their agency, which allows them to build associative spaces in order to survive and thrive socially, economically and personally.