16 May 2024
Bilbao Campus
On Thursday, 16 May, the University of Deusto will host a new edition of DeustoForum in which sociologist and professor at City College of New York (CUNY), Norma Fuentes-Mayorga, will deliver a lecture titled “Migraciones encabezadas por mujeres. Paradojas sobre la movilidad social feminizada en contextos racializados". In a dialogue with Deusto professor and researcher Concepción Maiztegui, the event will be held in the Assembly Hall at 19:00.
A leading expert on international migration and non-profit leadership, especially from a gender perspective, her research analyses the different forms of inequality and oppression that force many women from the Dominican Republic and Mexico to migrate with their families to New York City. In addition, she will delve into the processes of overcoming obstacles and social mobility of these women and their contribution to public life.
Her work, based on the narratives of the protagonists themselves, delves into their life circumstances, migration patterns, family and domestic structure, as well as the discrimination and social isolation they face in an increasingly racialised context. The lecture will explore how, for many women of Afro-Latin and indigenous descent, leaving their countries is seen as a last resort to aspire to a university education that provides opportunities for social progress, both for themselves and their families, especially their daughters.
