Transnational families, religious participation and gender dynamics

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Autor(a) principal: Trovão, Susana Salvaterra
Data de Publicação: 2015
Outros Autores: Ramalho, Sónia Cristina Caetano, David, Inês
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2013.855709
Resumo: UID/ANT/04038/2013
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spelling Transnational families, religious participation and gender dynamicsFilipino, Sao Tomean and Indo-Mozambican immigrant women in Lisbon, PortugalGender dynamicsImmigrantsPortugalReligionTransnational familiesGender StudiesDemographyCultural StudiesArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)UID/ANT/04038/2013In addition to being the object of policy and legal initiatives, families of migrant origin have become a focus of debate concerning differences and its limits. Migrants themselves, however, are also reflecting on how to manage family relationships in a changing world in which migration is mostly transnational. This article aims to discuss the influence of religious participation on the reconfiguration of processes of family dynamics promoted by three groups of migrant women who, while settled in Lisbon, maintain transnational ties with their countries of origin and with various diasporic spaces. Guiding research questions are: to what extent does religious participation provide migrant women with connections, networks and other intangible resources? How are these resources mobilised as ‘bonding’ and ‘bridging’ social capitals? Can such capitals become a conduit for the redefinition of family relations and female selfnarratives? Comparative analysis confirms that the three groups discussed not only mobilise religious belonging and ties to generate resources, but also convert these connections into social (and other forms of) capital, thus triggering desired changes that affect the lives of their children and families in both the short and long term. While migration does not alter long-standing patterns provided by their own respective sociocultural frames of belonging, our findings reveal that the three groups of interlocutors use religious participation to explore tactics, social capitals and mobility spaces and, further, to negotiate, without subverting, specific family inequality dynamics.Departamento de Antropologia (DA)Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA - NOVA FCSH)RUNTrovão, Susana SalvaterraRamalho, Sónia Cristina CaetanoDavid, Inês2017-12-13T23:11:46Z2015-03-162015-03-16T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/article19application/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2013.855709eng0966-369XPURE: 1888671http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84902705825&partnerID=8YFLogxKhttps://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2013.855709info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-07-10T15:41:19ZPortal AgregadorONG
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Transnational families, religious participation and gender dynamics
Filipino, Sao Tomean and Indo-Mozambican immigrant women in Lisbon, Portugal
title Transnational families, religious participation and gender dynamics
spellingShingle Transnational families, religious participation and gender dynamics
Trovão, Susana Salvaterra
Gender dynamics
Immigrants
Portugal
Religion
Transnational families
Gender Studies
Demography
Cultural Studies
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
title_short Transnational families, religious participation and gender dynamics
title_full Transnational families, religious participation and gender dynamics
title_fullStr Transnational families, religious participation and gender dynamics
title_full_unstemmed Transnational families, religious participation and gender dynamics
title_sort Transnational families, religious participation and gender dynamics
author Trovão, Susana Salvaterra
author_facet Trovão, Susana Salvaterra
Ramalho, Sónia Cristina Caetano
David, Inês
author_role author
author2 Ramalho, Sónia Cristina Caetano
David, Inês
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Departamento de Antropologia (DA)
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA - NOVA FCSH)
RUN
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Trovão, Susana Salvaterra
Ramalho, Sónia Cristina Caetano
David, Inês
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Gender dynamics
Immigrants
Portugal
Religion
Transnational families
Gender Studies
Demography
Cultural Studies
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
topic Gender dynamics
Immigrants
Portugal
Religion
Transnational families
Gender Studies
Demography
Cultural Studies
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
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