Venezuelan women and family/community relations in Brazil

In the Venezuelan migration process, more than half of the displaced people are women. Knowing about the reality of Venezuelan migrant and refugee women in Brazil is to assume an intersectional feminist approach that aims to disrupt the concealment of oppressions experienced by them. Thus, an exploratory qualitative study was conducted, which aimed to understand the experiences of Venezuelan women community leaders in Boa Vista/RR, especially on how family relationships are being woven in the face of the migration process. It was identified that social and gender inequalities are intensified in the experiences of Venezuelan women when they are doubly responsible for family and community care work, dialectically producing the construction of community networks and psychological distress.

Keywords:
Migration processes; Venezuelan women; Gender relations; Intersectional feminism; Social inequalities