Challenges in social intervention with women in mobility: the case of the Spanish southern border

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/cuts.85102
Keywords: social intervention with women, gender, migration, southern border

Abstract

The aim of this article was to analyze some of the challenges posed to social intervention when working with migrant women in the context of the Spanish southern border, focusing on documentary analysis and the discourses of professionals who work in organizations in Andalusia, Ceuta and the Canary Islands. Using Zapata-Barrero and Ferrer-Gallardo's (2012) multiple concept of border as an analytical tool, we identified challenges linked to the ontological, epistemological and ethical borders that arise in social intervention processes. Among the conclusions, we highlight how social action, in this context, has to deal with a radical categorization between people who are expellable and dispensable based on control policies, and those who are welcome, based on protection frameworks that tend to place the subjects within the category of “victim”. Alongside this dichotomy, a reflection emerges on how to accompany the people with whom we intervene as right holders and key parts of  social integration models and mechanisms.

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Esperanza Jorge Barbuzano, Universidad Pablo de Olavide

PhD. in Gender Studies from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Her doctoral thesis received two awards in addition to the Extraordinary Doctoral Prize. She is currently a Marie Sklodowska Curie postdoctoral research staff at the University of Cadiz; and a lecturer and research associate of the 4W-STREETS program (Social Transformations to End the Exploitation and Trafficking for Sex) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Her research interests are (in)mobility and gender, as well as the construction of creative narratives in migratory contexts of imposed silencing. In addition to an extensive professional experience with groups in situations of vulnerability and invisibilization, she has multiple articles in journals of impact as well as contributions to national and international conferences. She is co-director of the documentary "Irioweniasi. El Hilo de la Luna" which has won 5 awards in international ethnographic film and human rights festivals and a special mention. 

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Published
2023-07-20
How to Cite
Antolinez Dominguez I. y Jorge Barbuzano E. (2023). Challenges in social intervention with women in mobility: the case of the Spanish southern border. Cuadernos de Trabajo Social, 36(2), 425-436. https://doi.org/10.5209/cuts.85102
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Vol. 36 No. 2 (2023)
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