Publication date: Oct 03, 2024
In the context of international migration, many migrant women face an overload of care work for other people, corroborating a lack of adequate care and protection for them, which places them in vulnerable situations and at risk of suffering psychosocial harm. emotional and physical to your health. This is aggravated in the scenario of the COVID-19 pandemic, considering the structural social inequalities that have deepened to unsustainable limits for the subaltern sectors of societies, where Latin American migrant women who work in the field of domestic care of Spain and Germany. In this way, this work seeks to analyze the problem of psychosocial suffering related to care work in migrant Latin American women in Germany and Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic. For this, the integrative review was used as a qualitative synthesis procedure of previous related studies. The importance of this study lies in the fact that there are few studies on the psychosocial health of Latin American migrant women who perform domestic and care work. Some results show that, in this labor niche in Germany and Spain, the identity of women, migrants and Latin Americans, can contribute to unleash psychological and emotional suffering, due to the precarious working conditions to which many submit out of necessity and because of the field. of care to be the first “option”, derived mainly from the limited perspectives of labor and social insertion in the country of destination, than from a freely and consciously chosen task.
Concepts | Keywords |
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Germany | alemania |
Health | caregivers |
Latinoamericanas | COVID-19 |
Pandemic | cuidadoras |
Women | españa |
Germany | |
Latin American migrants | |
migrantes latinoamericanas | |
Spain | |
suffering | |
sufrimiento |
Semantics
Type | Source | Name |
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disease | MESH | COVID-19 |
disease | IDO | country |