Highly educated women: exploring barriers and strategies for labour integration in an emotional migratory process

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dc.contributor.authorMaiztegui Oñate, Concepción
dc.contributor.authorDi Martino, Maria Luisa
dc.contributor.authorAristegui Fradua, Iratxe
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-06T16:20:10Z
dc.date.available2025-06-06T16:20:10Z
dc.date.issued2023-12-15
dc.date.updated2025-06-06T16:20:10Z
dc.description.abstractThis article explores the barriers and the strategies of a group of highly educated foreign women to obtain a job-education matching situation in the Basque Country (Spain) where they all permanently settled following a binational heterosexual marriage. Drawing on 21 biographical interviews with women from Latin America and Europe, we examine new perspectives on the complexity and fluidity between their professional pathways and family projects. For that, we apply an intersectional lens to analyse their life experience. Our results show that respondents involved in a feminised labour market (education and health) have fewer difficulties to find a job-education match. In other cases, becoming self-employed is a way to gain independence and flexibility by running an open market-oriented business. Interviewees identified language, lack of personal networks, family reconciliation, traditional gender roles and the transferring of cultural capital as the main barriers for their incorporation into the labour market. The study finds that marriage support is not enough to overcome the barriers. We argue that for a more comprehensive understanding of labour integration of highly educated migrant women, motivation and agency, linked to family support, should be considered factors to cope with structural inequalities.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was funded by SODEXO IBERIA. Inclusion and Diversity Fellowship 2014. Starting Date: 01/04/2015 (2015–2017)en
dc.identifier.citationMaiztegui Oñate, C., Di Martino, M. L., & Aristegui, I. (2023). Highly educated women: exploring barriers and strategies for labour integration in an emotional migratory process. Social Sciences, 12(12). https://doi.org/10.3390/SOCSCI12120687
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/SOCSCI12120687
dc.identifier.eissn2076-0760
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/2966
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
dc.rights© 2023 by the authors
dc.subject.otherAgency
dc.subject.otherBinational marriages
dc.subject.otherGender
dc.subject.otherHighly educated migrant women
dc.subject.otherInequality
dc.subject.otherIntersectionality
dc.subject.otherJob-education match
dc.titleHighly educated women: exploring barriers and strategies for labour integration in an emotional migratory processen
dc.typejournal article
dcterms.accessRightsopen access
oaire.citation.issue12
oaire.citation.titleSocial Sciences
oaire.citation.volume12
oaire.licenseConditionhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
oaire.versionVoR
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