SIGNAL-LANDSCAPE · New approaches to mapping the signs of violence and care in the migratory landscapes of silenced women
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2022-02-01 → 2024-04-30
- EU contribution
- €183,757
- Participants
- 2
- Scheme
- MSCA-IF
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Results in brief
New approaches to mapping the signs of violence and care in the migratory landscapes of silenced women
This project intends to put academic research at the service of global and European social challenges in this case related to the migration of women by land routes in unsafe contexts. For this, we will focus our field work on a multi-sited and feminist ethnography developed at key points of the routes that connect Central America and the United States, crossing Mexico, among other territories. It is one of the busiest migratory routes, and also one of the most dangerous for those who walk it. Kidnappings, exploitation, extortion, the sale of people or disappearances are part of the life stories of women on the move. Therefore, it is proposed to generate results based on the research question: What traces does the migration process leave on women, focusing on the case of Honduran women? Traces related to Violence, Exploitation, Trafficking and Disappearances (VETD) and traces related to the Attention, Survival, Agency and Legitimized Presence Strategies (CSAP) The Experienced Investigator considers as a general objective to form a cartography with the protagonists, as a LANDSCAPE-SIGN from these traces. For this, the following will be related: a) The physical landscapes that reflect the damage and care that women have experienced along the route; b) The geographical and social landscapes of VETDs from their experiences; and c) The geographical and social landscapes of the CSAP that can make us reflect on the ways of managing human mobility. This work proposes to be part of the generation of situated narratives that address the issue from the protagonists (migrant women) to demand a critical social dialogue that aspires to transform the contexts of damage into habitable spaces where life and bodies are not in permanent risk
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Project objective
Currently, migration is posing a global challenge for the formation of societies and States, being a key factor of the feminisation of the phenomenon. When the migration process is undertaken under situations of vulnerability, it can be linked to structures that generate violence, exploitation, disappearance, and/or human trafficking. The routes that go from Central America to the USA by land present examples of these structures. The SIGNAL-LANDSCAPE project aims to: 1) Build a creative and transnational cartography that reflects the points of damage, as well as the care and resistance of the migratory route. 2) Design methods and tools that facilitate the processes of construction of the life story while avoiding re-victimisation. 3) Breaking the silencing to which the stories of migrant women are subjected, thus generating narrative results. 4) Produce academic knowledge, that will reach certain spaces for the design of policies and social networks.The Researcher will carry out a multi-sited ethnography: origin (Honduras), the route (Mexico-Guatemala), and destination (USA). In these spaces, she will work with women, through local organisations, to build creative narratives that will allow the designing of: 1) the physical landscapes that reflect the damage and care that women have experienced along the route; and 2) the geographical and social landscapes of their experiences. The researcher has doctoral experience with Nigerian migrant women, who are often linked to human trafficking, and she has developed a methodology proposal to take into account the silencing. Furthermore, the trajectory of both supervisors in the field, the Host Centres, and the support of the two Chairs: 1) UNESCO-Gender, Wellbeing and Culture of Peace, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA and 2) Jean Monnet-Immigration and Borders of European, University of Cádiz, Spain, will be a fundamental contribution to the proper development of the project and the positive future of the Researcher
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Participants
- UNIVERSIDAD DE CADIZ · CadizCoordinatorSpain
- THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM · MADISON WIUnited States
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