Abstract
Abstract This article is organized around the axes migratory process, work, and quality of life. Two objectives were outlined: characterizing the socio-demographic aspects of Brazilian immigrant women in Portugal; and analyzing their situation and characteristics of work and quality of life. The study started from two working hypotheses: the first on the relation between unemployment and low quality of life; and the second on the relation between high workload and low quality of life of immigrant women. Cross-sectional study conducted from July to September 2016, in Portugal, with 682 Brazilian immigrant women over 18 years of age who lived in the country for more than 3 months. The instruments used were a socio-demographic questionnaire and the questionnaire ‘Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey’ (SF-36). The results showed a predominance of women in the age group from 18 to 38 years; married or living in a marriage-like relationship; with formal education mostly at the graduate level; with child(ren); and living in a family unit. The first study hypothesis was confirmed and the second study hypothesis was refuted.
Highlights
Este artigo se organiza em torno dos eixos processo migratório, trabalho e qualidade de vida
The sample size was determined by the formula to calculate infinite populations (População..., 2018). In this perspective, based on the population of 53,357 Brazilian women residing in Portugal, the minimum number of them would be 600, considering the confidence interval (CI) of 95%, significance level of 5%, and relative sampling error of 8%
Dutra (2013) had already reported this finding to demonstrate the prevalence of migrant women in the age group between 20 and 40 years old (59.8%), in line with the data obtained in this research
Summary
Este artigo se organiza em torno dos eixos processo migratório, trabalho e qualidade de vida. Delinearam-se dois objetivos: caracterizar os aspectos sociodemográficos de imigrantes brasileiras em Portugal e analisar sua situação e suas características de trabalho e qualidade de vida. O trabalho partiu de duas hipóteses de trabalho: a primeira sobre a relação entre desemprego e baixa qualidade de vida e a segunda sobre a relação entre carga horária elevada e baixa qualidade de vida de mulheres imigrantes. Transversal, foi conduzido de julho a setembro de 2016, em Portugal, com 682 imigrantes brasileiras maiores de 18 anos que viviam no país há mais de três meses. A primeira hipótese de estudo foi confirmada e a segunda foi refutada. Palavras-chave: Emigração e Imigração; Mulheres; Qualidade de Vida; Mercado de Trabalho
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