Migratory project and reality Social: construction of social networks of immigrant women in Spain

Abstract

The study of migrations from a gender perspective allows to know the participation of women in migratory flows in a more critical way and emphasizes the implication that the roles have with the own experience of immigrating of men and women. Following this investigative logic, this article is approached through a theoretical conceptual review and an experiential account through the interview of the migratory experience of immigrant women in Spain, concretized in aspects related to the construction of social networks, highlights some factors that affect immigrant women, in specific aspects such as socialization, social support, and their employment situation. For this, the story and the social network map of an immigrant woman of Mexican nationality based in Spain are taken as a key reference.