Repensando a migração brasileira: a agência de mulheres brasileiras altamente qualificadas

Abstract

Abstract Developing the concept of the “continuum of instability”, we recognise that different phenomena such as agency and resilience are useful to reframe the different dynamics and mechanisms of resettlement and job-education matching in a group of Brazilian women resettled in the Spanish context. This paper contributes to the scientific knowledge of the relationship between strategies of transnational mobility and the reframing of professional identity in the host society. Through the procedure of a qualitative methodology, the data were collected in different Autonomous Communities of Spain during and after the Covid-19 pandemic, between 2021 and 2022. This paper explores the strategies used by highly educated Brazilian women to achieve job-education matches in Spain. To this end, we have analysed the structures of opportunities and constraints that have influenced their career paths in the Spanish socio-occupational context. On the other hand, by considering the micro-analytical level, subjectivity suffers relevant changes based on the negotiation with external factors at macro (structural) and meso (relational) levels, depending on the forms of adaptation and transformation of each woman. In this context, agency and resilience are the nudging factors and become active strategies through the process of deconstruction and reconstruction of the new identity in the post-migration phase.