Women's Political Consciousness and Empowerment in Local, National, and Transnational Contexts: Guatemalan Refugees and Returnees

2001/01/01 by Patricia R. Pessar · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Diaspora, migration, transnational identity #Migration and Labor Dynamics #Migration, Refugees, and Integration

paper · doi:10.1080/1070289x.2001.9962676

openalex publication_date 2001/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29

Abstract

This study of Guatemalan refugees and returnees contributes to the small corpus of work that interrogates gender and migration/exile from the vantage points of women's political consciousness and empowerment. In taking up these issues, it also seeks to broaden feminist thinking about citizenship by engaging not only local and national contexts in which women's citizenship are forged, but also transnational ones.

Citations

• Refugees and Exile: From "Refugee Studies" to the National Order of Things

Discussions

• '#Women's Political Consciousness and Empowerment in Local, National, and Transnational Contexts: Guatemalan Refugees and Returnees' From #Identities' International Women's Day Special Collection: ht [bsky, 1 points, 1 comments]

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