Estrategias de género para la integración a través del reagrupamiento familiar

Laburpena

Family reunification as an indicator of immigrant integration promotes equal access to properties, rights and resources of communities. Thus, through coexistence, immigrant women get access to certain areas of social protection easier than welfare states such as employment entitlements, legal stay, benefits, career breaks, scholarships and grants. Public Social Protection Systems, however, does not protect all forms of being family. Regional inequalities associated with gender are detected, that hurt immigrant women and are related to their jobs, responsibilities in the private sphere, invisibility in public spaces and personal, social and administrative obstacles which are imposed from their origin countries to the host country. Empirical research conducted in Andalusia shows family strategies developed by women for effective grouping processes and get over frequently problems associated with different nationalities, social classes and diverse ways of being family.