Delia Dutra
Brasília: CSEM; Sorocaba, SP: OJM, 2013
This is the result of original research that offers the possibility of dealing with contemporary phenomena, based on original methodological approaches. On the one hand, it deals with aspects of intercontinental migration in Latin America which, despite its upsurge in recent decades, still lacks more in-depth empirical studies, especially in South America. On the other hand, the focus on gender in the treatment of migratory issues on the continent adds to a good number of feminist studies that have been developing in our countries. Finally, it focuses on one of the ways in which processes of social change are manifesting themselves on the continent, where they take on peculiar forms.
Based on a group of Peruvian women who live in Brasilia and work in domestic services, a problem was constructed in which, through empirical research, daily life in the city and the mechanisms of social interaction that exist there are decoded. The object of the research is therefore female immigration. This is a relatively under-researched topic, even if we consider the tradition of migration studies in sociology. Methodologically, the approach focuses on what the author calls the psycho-physical space: individual motivations, family relationships, social and cultural origin, reference group, the status of the profession held, urban experience in the present and past and social gender relations within and outside the family nucleus. It can be seen that the universe of these migrant women is treated as a whole, covering various dimensions of life and which, as a whole, are elements of an identity in the process of adaptation.
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