Session "Fringes of Humanity": Talk on "Nepali Migrant Females From the First and Second Generations in Portugal: Integration and Discrimination Issues"

Description

In this study, we will introduce three different questions which arose from our Integral Human Development Postdoc research project’s conceptualization and development (all of them related with themes found under the umbrella of female international migration) and we will focus our attention especially on one of them: how can we define a successful integration and evaluate it by considering specific criteria such as the capabilities of the females, but also by contrasting it with operationalized discrimination experiences, narrated by the nepali female migrants from the two different generations interviewed? We will then depart from theoretical issues regarding integration (Penninx, 2019), migrations and gender discrimination (Timmerman, Fonseca, Van Praag and Pereira, 2018; Ruyssen and Salomone, 2018), together with an analysis of nepali international female migration (World Bank, 2022; Borelli, 2022; Shrestha, 2022; Chaudary, 2020). We will proceed by introducing our project’s research question and by operationalizing the most relevant key concepts involved – such as the main forms of female migrant discrimination (OECD’s SIGI Index; Honneth, 1992), the competences and capabilities by the nepali female migrants (Nussbaum, 2000, 2014) and what we will consider as descriptors of a successful migrant integration (Pereira, 2022). We will describe in detail the impacts of our project (introducing a model for short and long-term objectives according to Porticus Foundation’s intervention procedures for people on the move) and we will conclude by discussing the novelty and future implications of our research project’s contributions.

Period	7 Sept 2022
Event title	Integral Human Development Summer School: Contemporary Humanism Annual Seminar
Event type	Other
Location	LisbonShow on map
Degree of Recognition	Scientific initiation