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- Gender and Migration Control: Experiences of Foreign Women Detained in PortugalPublication . Matos, Raquel; Esposito, Francesca; Ornelas, José; Arcidiacono, Catarina
- Gender, vulnerability and everyday resistance in immigration detention: lived experiences of women detaineesPublication . Esposito, Francesca; Matos, Raquel; Bosworth, MaryThis paper examines immigration detention by looking at women’s experiences of confinement in a Portuguese detention facility. The empirical data—comprising participant observations, informal conversations and interviews with detained women—are read through an intersectional lens. This approach illuminates constructions of gender and sexuality in their mutual and contextualised articulation with other power relations (e.g., processes of racialisation and ethnicisation stemming from colonial histories), as well as the reconfiguration of these constructions by women themselves. Doing so also focuses on the intertwinement between power and resistance in daily life in detention. The women we met did not passively accept their situation, but rather struggled to make sense of, navigate and challenge the detention system. To this effect, they deployed multiple forms of agency, which also passed through the rejection, acceptance and reappropriation of hegemonic gendered constructions and their use in strategic ways to negotiate their positions vis-a-vis the system.
- Migration related detention in Portugal: Data from the fieldPublication . Esposito, Francesca; Ornelas, José; Arcidiacono, Caterina; Matos, Raquel
- Women’s experiences of border crossing: gender, mobility and border controlPublication . Matos, Raquel; Esposito, FrancescaIn recent years, new migration patterns emerged in Europe and border control operations became more complex and broader, resulting in an increasing number of non-nationals detained for migration-related reasons. This paper aims to explore how gender, migration and border control intersect in the lives of women detained for not having authorisation to remain in Portugal. Several visits were made to a detention facility, where ten women detainees were interviewed. Our findings reveal how gender plays a crucial role in women’s mobility pathways, and how the lack of a secure migrant status can be used as a control mechanism within the context of gendered relationships. Overall, due attention is paid to the way crossing borders impacts the lives of these women, reinforcing their vulnerabilities, and to the ways in which women deal with and resist the precariousness and violence they are exposed to, seeking a meaning and continuity for their lives.