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Vol. 16 (2025): January-December, 2025

Brazilian and Colombian Women in Iberian Sexual/Marriage Markets: An Intersectional Analysis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.33679/rmi.v1i1.3116
Published
2025-05-30

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the participation of Colombian and Brazilian migrant women in Iberian sexual/marriage markets. It combines a statistical analysis and an ethnography based on 40 women of Spain, Portugal, and Brazil between 2017 and 2022, to follow the strategies generating superpositions between migration policy and ethnosexualization. The results expose a participation typology in mixed marriages according to the social characteristics of migrant women: marriage as a means of regularization assumed by women in a precarious legal-labor situation; the social downgrading experienced by privileged women; and young childless women’s rejection of mixed marriages. The originality of this work lies in the reconstruction, based on the cross-referencing of different variables from origin to destination—maternity experiences, legal status, race, employment, educational level, nationality of the spouses—of the intersectional logic that governs the Iberian sexual/marriage markets.

Keywords

  • intersectionality
  • mixed marriages
  • sexual markets
  • Colombian women
  • Brazilian women

How to Cite

Souto-García, A., & Serroni Perosa, G. (2025). Brazilian and Colombian Women in Iberian Sexual/Marriage Markets: An Intersectional Analysis. Migraciones Internacionales, 16. https://doi.org/10.33679/rmi.v1i1.3116

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