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Migraciones Internacionales e-ISSN: 2594-0279

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Vol. 1 Núm. 2 (2002): enero-junio, 2002

Approaches to International Migration, Immigrant Women, and Identity

DOI
https://doi.org/10.17428/rmi.v1i2.1723
Publicado
2017-08-29

Resumen

This article attempts to demonstrate that each approach to immigration, immigrant women, and identity that appeared in the British literature from the 1970s through the 1990s was an attempt to create a theory to account for differences and similarities within the diverse immigrant groups in the United Kingdom. However, serious gaps exist in these approaches in that they do not address what constitutes culture for the immigrants themselves or how their construction of culture differs from what they perceive to be the culture of the country to which they migrate. This poses difficulties in understanding the meaning immigrants attribute to their cultural and gender identities and how these identities may evolve in the host country. This article argues that while it is important not to ignore the power of political and economic forces and history as contributors to women's formation of identities, it is at least as important to think about identity as an individual appropriation and a creation of individual meanings. There is a need to understand the intersection between culture, social structure, and biography in order to recognize differences in the shaping of cultural and gender identities. Resumen Este articulo intenta demostrar que los enfoques sobre la inmigración, las mujeres inmigrantes y la identidad, que aparecieron en la literatura británica entre los años setenta y noventa, fueron un intento de crear una teoría para explicar las diferencias y similitudes entre los diversos grupos inmigrantes en el Reina Unido. Sin embargo, existen huecos importantes en estos enfoques, al no tomar en cuenta lo que constituye la cultura para los inmigrantes mismos, o como su construcción de cultura difiere de la que ellas perciben en el país de destino. Esto crea dificultades para entender el significado que los inmigrantes atribuyen a su identidad cultural y de genera, y la manera como estas identidades pueden evolucionar en el país receptor. Este articulo argumenta que, mientras es importante no ignorar el poder de las fuerzas políticas y económicas y la historia como factores para la formación de las identidades de la mujeres, también es importante pensar en la identidad como una apropiación y creación individual de significados. Es necesario entender la intersección entre cultura, estructura social y biografía para reconocer diferencias en la formación de identidades culturales y de genera.

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Palabras clave

  • international migration
  • women's studies
  • race
  • post-modernism
  • United Kingdom

Cómo citar

Bravo Moreno, A. (2017). Approaches to International Migration, Immigrant Women, and Identity. Migraciones Internacionales, 1(2). https://doi.org/10.17428/rmi.v1i2.1723
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