Colombianas en España y brasileiras en Portugalun análisis interseccional de las migraciones de las mujeres en el espacio transnacional/poscolonial

Abstract

In the context of neoliberal expansion and the feminisation of the global proletariat, from an intersectional and post-decolonial perspective, this doctoral thesis explores twenty years of migratory/biographical trajectories of Brazilian women in Portugal and Colombian women in Spain. Based on the testimonies of forty migrants, interviewed during a multi-sited fieldwork, carried out in the urban peripheries of São Paulo, Porto, Madrid and Galicia, between 2017 and 2019; I analyse the transnational space as a postcolonial continuum which, in the manner of a matrix, is articulated by the intersection of multiple relations of domination. The results of the research suggest that the migrations of Colombian and Brazilian women to Spain and Portugal constitute a collective survival strategy that is mediated by coloniality. The history that links the territories of origin and destination projects ethnosexual representations of women that end up being determinant in the configuration of their migratory/biographical trajectories in the transnational/postcolonial space. The intersections of gender, race in its double dimension, as nationality and as imagined race, and class, operate the incorporation of Brazilian and Colombian women into the circuits of globalised labour through the sex-racial/migratory policies of the host states.