Banca de DEFESA: Thaysa Andréia de Miranda Rodrigues

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STUDENT : Thaysa Andréia de Miranda Rodrigues
DATE: 24/09/2024
TIME: 14:00
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TITLE:

Transnational Families of Brazilian Migrant Women in Spain: an analysis from the perspective of the children

KEY WORDS:

transnational families; transnational practices; children; transnational motherhood; reorganization of care

PAGES: 275
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Sociologia
SUMMARY:

This thesis investigates the impacts that the migration of Brazilian mothers to Spain has on the organization and family structure of their sons and daughters who remain in Brazil, from the point of view of these. From a transnational perspective, the research focuses on the family practices developed by these families separated by distance in order to maintain their emotional bonds; the way in which the care of their children was organized; as well as their experiences as members of transnational families, both in the country of origin and destination. This is a qualitative research with multi-sited fieldwork, where I carried out in-depth interviews, in Brazil and Spain, with 14 children who stayed in the state of Goiás; with 7 mothers who migrated to Spain; and with 2 representatives of associations that serve migrant people in the city of Barcelona, as part of my doctoral exchange carried out between 2022 and 2023. To do so, I used the snowball technique to, based on some initial informants, find more participants. Data analysis indicates that the children remained in Brazil mostly under the care of their maternal grandmothers, aunts and fathers so that, later, after the regularization of their mothers' administrative situation in Spain, half of them also migrated to be with their mothers. Given the difficulties imposed by Spanish migration policy for the entry of non-European migrants, leaving their children in Brazil during the first years of migration often constitutes a strategy for these mothers to manage to enter the country, find work and housing to try to regularize their situation and, only then, take their children with them. The research concludes that there is a need for a change in the treatment that Spanish migration policy gives to non-European migrant women, as the current model makes it difficult for migrants and their children to access the right to family reunification, thus contributing to their separation.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - GISELE MARIA RIBEIRO DE ALMEIDA - UFF
Externa à Instituição - MARIA CATARINA CHITOLINA - UFSM
Interna - 2079994 - TANIA MARA CAMPOS DE ALMEIDA
Presidente - 3171429 - TANIA MARA PASSARELLI TONHATI
Externa ao Programa - 3396960 - ZAKIA ISMAIL HACHEM - null