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Comments
Carmen
Colazo: Comments to the text ICAE Confintea Seminar [13]
In the Latin American migratory processes we have found, in the women life stories, that they mean new autonomies for them, new opportunities, although many of them lost touch with their countries and families. In Paraguay, a country with constant migrations, women migrate to cities steadily to work as house cleaners and others. Many of them arrive as servants in the houses of Asuncion families. Some of them enter the capital's education system that offers them better opportunities, but others do not. Some women go back to their hometowns, but other women stay in the cities looking for new opportunities. For some women the arrival to the capital is only a step to go further, beyond the country borders, to Argentina and Europe. Currently there is a strong migration to Spain. In this process, many women are victims of trades and traffics that are being detected by government and human rights organizations. The exodus of Paraguayan women is growing. Some women describe how, after arriving to Spain, they managed to form a family with better income and benefits for their lives, or return to Paraguay with retired husbands that live well off in the country, almost from rents. After the great return at the end of the Stroessner era, migration resumed and is growing in Paraguay. Carmen Colazo: Comments to the text ICAE Confintea Seminar [14] I think it is important to consider the current migratory processes focusing on gender equality, and to work more on the impacts of these displacements in the lives of women and girls, of whole families, in terms of education. We should study how these women enter the new countries, how they enter or not the local education systems, if these migrations really mean better opportunities of education or not, and which are the risks involved in these migratory processes.
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