Our daily migrations... An intercultural approach to migrant identity and gender

Abstract

This manuscript proposes a basic framework for understanding migration from an intercultural perspective, as a continuum, a negotiated way of being and an individual experience. Briefly, it explains the results of interviews with four migrant women, commenting on relevant aspects. The history of these women places them in the third phase of the migration process, assuming migrant identity as a permanent construction, through two-way dialogue established between values, traditions, culture (s) and religion formatted in the country of origin; and later, dialogue established between these and what comes from the new location, which will lead to some type of redefinition of the migrant identity. This is part of a larger project of qualitative research based on life stories, aimed at 30 migrant women from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.