From the society of origin to the host society: a consideration on the migratory processes of Moroccan and Dominican women

The article sets forth the first part of a two-and-one-half year study, subsidised by the Woman’s Institute (Ministry for Work and Social Affairs), on female migration in the Spain, focused on the Moroccan and Dominican communities. The aim was to identify the migratory processes of these women, understand them, identify changes and losses and lift barriers, in order to formulate realistic proposals that would contribute to easing future migratory processes of other women. The qualitative methodology combines information consulting with a questionnaire conducted with six women from the two communities, regarded as “key or expert informants”, given their length of stay in the host society and their feedback on their experience as well as their participation in social integration associations, centres and organisations that work to assist the experience of migration. The limits and opportunities of the host society, the change in their relational spaces and the supportive practices that are established, together with the proposals that the protagonists themselves put forward, make up the principal findings of this research.