From April 9 to 11, CSEM took part in the first International Congress on Human Mobility 2025, at the Alberto Hurtado University in Santiago, Chile. The event was attended by various social actors, migrants, researchers and civil society organizations and focused on reflecting on current migratory flows.
The event's program included research presentations as well as experience reports on a number of themes, including “Human mobility, gender and diversity” in which Barbara Marques presented the article “The reconstruction of life as a category of analysis: Research experiences with migrant women in Mexico and Honduras”.
The article presented was produced using data from research carried out by CSEM in Mexico and Honduras. The aim of the presentation was to analyze “remaking life” and its variations - “moving on” - as a category that can help us think about women's experiences in migratory contexts. The proposal is anchored in CSEM's Núcleo Duro de Pesquisas, which highlights the protagonism of migrants and refugees and their capacity for agency and rebuilding their lives, even in adverse contexts of flight and violence.
In the more specific context of the research on mental health and migrant women returning to Honduras with disabilities acquired on the migratory route, aspects such as the “social construction of the accident” and the dimensions of “moving on” were highlighted, highlighting the importance of the support offered by social organizations, such as the Pastoral de Movilidad Humana de Honduras and CONAMIREDIS, and the importance of spirituality as an interpretative key for the re-signification of the processes experienced and the process of “moving on”.
This theme of spirituality was portrayed in more depth in the article “‘Dios actuó en lo sobrenatural’: La religiosità come risorsa interpretativa di donne migranti honduregne ritornate con disabilità”, recently published by the CSEM research team in the Italian magazine Mondo Migranti, reference in publications on migration studies.
Click here to access the abstract of the article: https://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/articolo/76682