Paper short abstract:

This paper explores how bodies and subjectivities are managed and (re)constructed by individuals as part of the migration processes. At the beginning of the migratory project, but also in the arrival societies, individual are conscious of the requirement of develop strategies to achieve their goals.

Paper long abstract:

This paper explores how bodies and subjectivities are managed and (re)constructed by individuals as part of the migration processes.

Our proposal is based on two premises. On the one hand, the consideration of migration as a constant transformative process and lived experience. And, on the other hand, the body as an analyzer of identities and social dynamics. Having this premises in consideration, this paper will explore different strategies that migrant people develop to achieve success in their migratory processes. Strategies that are developed not only during the mobilities that migration implies but also in the societies of arrival since people are conscious of the specific requirement that are necessaries to achieve their goals. From a feminist analysis, we will show different strategies and resources developed by individuals depending on the context, on the borders, but especially on gender.

The results presented in this paper are part of a multi-sited ethnographic research as well as an in-depth literature review.