Refugee Women in Portugal, from Home to Somewhere Else (new edition)
No. 80 JULY 2024
What is known as the «refugee crisis» of 2015 transformed the reality of how people are welcomed in Portugal. But while the process of social inclusion is a challenge for everybody, the rather heterogeneous group of migrant women has even more difficult barriers to overcome.
Sandra, Maryam and Olena arrived, under international protection status, from Zimbabwe, Ukraine and Afghanistan, where their lives were in danger. For more than a year, they opened their doors to this portrait. They introduced family and friends, narrated circumstances and episodes, confessed their anxieties and celebrated their victories.
What you have here is an account of the lives they restarted, almost from scratch, with a strength that allows them to continue to be who they are, even after they have been through the unimaginable.
What is known as the «refugee crisis» of 2015 transformed the reality of how people are welcomed in Portugal. But while the process of social inclusion is a challenge for everybody, the rather heterogeneous group of migrant women has even more difficult barriers to overcome.
Sandra, Maryam and Olena arrived, under international protection status, from Zimbabwe, Ukraine and Afghanistan, where their lives were in danger. For more than a year, they opened their doors to this portrait. They introduced family and friends, narrated circumstances and episodes, confessed their anxieties and celebrated their victories.
What you have here is an account of the lives they restarted, almost from scratch, with a strength that allows them to continue to be who they are, even after they have been through the unimaginable.
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Dimensions
8 × 130 × 200 mm
ISBN
978-989-9153-94-3