RT journal article
T1 Re-writing the domestic role: transnational migrants’ households between informal and formal social protection in Ecuador and in Spain
A1 Castellani, Simone
A1 Martín Díaz, Emma
A2 Economía General
K1 Transnational social protection
K1 Intersectionality
K1 Women migration
K1 Ecuador
K1 Spain
K1 Care
AB Ecuadorian migration to Spain can be described as an emblematic case of feminization of international migration. As the scholarship showed, this migration flow has been shaped by transnational female social networks in which different types of capital circulate and which are re-produced across generations, providing social protection for people involved in them, both migrants and non-migrants. Starting from three ethnographic studies conducted with Ecuadorian adults and teenage migrants in Seville and in different Ecuadorian localities between 2004 and 2011, this paper has two aims. First, it investigates the crucial role played by migrant women of the first and second generation to create a safety net for the members of their transnational households, in terms of child and elderly care, combining tactically both informal and formal social protection along the different stages of their migratory projects. Second, adopting an intersectional lens, which looks particularly at the dialectic between gender and generation, it analyses the tensions and conflicts generated by the re-positioning of these women within their transnational households. The paper contributes to the literature through questioning the changing gender role and relations in transnational social protection.
PB Springer
SN 2214-594X
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/38921
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/38921
LA eng
NO EL ítem está publicado en abierto en la URL de la Revista Comparative Migration Studies https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40878-018-0108-0#notes
NO Financiado por el Plan Nacional de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación (IMU156/04, 2004–2009) y por la Dirección General de Coordinación de Políticas Migratorias de la Junta de Andalucía (2007–2009), bajo la dirección de Emma Martín Díaz.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 08-nov-2026