From July 29 to August 2, Florianópolis hosted the 13th edition of the International Seminar on Making Gender, organized by the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), on the initiative of the Institute of Gender Studies (IEG), in partnership with Santa Catarina State University (Udesc) and the Federal Institute of Santa Catarina (IFSC).
In its first face-to-face edition after the pandemic, the event brought together more than 6,000 people from various Brazilian states and countries, especially Latin America.
With the theme “Gender 13 against the end of the world: anti-colonialism, anti-fascism and climate justice”, The event, in hybrid format, featured four conferences, 45 round tables, 184 thematic symposia, 2,800 oral communications, 200 posters, as well as a themed tent, solidarity economy fair, mini-courses, workshops, book launches and the Women's World March.
The event was important for disseminating research findings Mental health and women returned migrants condiscapacity y women caregivers of returned migrants con disability, The event, developed by the CSEM in partnership with the Pastoral de Movilidad Humana de Honduras since 2020, was also an opportunity to get closer to the themes worked on in the research, such as motherhood, care and migration, from a feminist perspective.
Among the event's wide-ranging program were the mini-course Gender, migrations and the challenges of feminist research, given by professors Glaucia Assis and Maria Catarina Zanini, and the ST Migrations, work and gender: an intersectional view from Latin America in the 20th-21st centuries, coordinated by Antonella Delmonte, Ludmila Scheinkman and Clara Lemme. It was in this working group that the working paper “¿Cómo seguir adelante?”: An analysis of the trajectory of returnee women with disabilities in Honduras, by Tuila Botega and Barbara Marques, CSEM researchers, was presented.
The aim of this work was to analyze not only the barriers faced in the reintegration process, but above all to highlight the dimensions that permeate the process of rebuilding the lives of women returnees with disabilities due to accidents suffered on the migratory route. In this way, “moving on” does not have a single meaning and significance, but is a complex process that encompasses different dimensions such as:
- physical and mental health, considering the recovery of self-esteem and access to prostheses, as well as the experience of faith;
- the dimension of work and the role of provider for women as a way of caring for their children in their maternity homes;
- engagement in the collective struggle to demand access to rights for returnees with disabilities.
Read the summary of the article and more information about the Working Group here.
With information from:
https://www.fg2024.eventos.dype.com.br/https://catarinas.info/maior-seminario-internacional-de-genero-no-brasil-vai-receber-6-mil-em-florianopolis/