Experiences of Venezuelan migrant leaders in the community confronting of social inequalities

Abstract

In the Venezuelan migration process to Brazil, Venezuelan women have assumed the role of migrant community leaders, acting as protagonists in the fight against social exclusion. This exploratory qualitative study aimed to understand the collective experiences of Venezuelan women community leaders in Boa Vista/RR semi-open interviews as the information collection procedure. The data were interpreted by constructive-interpretive analysis based on intersectional feminist epistemology. It found that social and gender inequalities operate in the articulation of women as leaders by hindering access to the labor market and keeping them mostly in the communities. The community confrontation they led stemmed from their need to resist social exclusion based on an ethical relationship of care and sustained by the engendering of gender relations.