Migrant women from the global South in the pandemic context in Portugal

Abstract

This report is part of the field notes of my research of the master's degree in anthropology in the years 2020 and 2021 in the parish of Vale do Amoreira in the Municipality of Moita (Portugal). We propose to analyze the paths and daily lives of Guinean women from the agency and networks with reflection of the female habitus that mobilizes social networks, acting in a framework of microfreedoms and microressistências at the heart of emancipation and citizenship, in the pandemic context of Covid-19. I would like to point out that these women have different migratory paths from societies with cultural codes of belonging, different sociability. We will bring the experiences of two participateers. The research took place in the field of migrations and transnationalism dialoguing with decolonial and feminist epistemologies. It was verified the participation and engagements of Guinean women in facing the constraints in migration and in times of crisis in the state Portuguese.