EU migrant women: migration, family life and professional trajectories

Abstract

This article focuses on the impact of migration on the career and financial autonomy of migrant women living in Portugal coming from other countries of the European Union. It illustrates the main characteristics of the employment trajectories and current situation of these migrant women, namely by identifying the migration patterns which are more prevalent in the Portuguese case than elsewhere. These may reveal a certain specificity of the EU migration to Portugal, being more in accordance with a «traditional» model of family migration, and dominated by partner-related employment reasons.

Keywords

• migrant women
• European Union
• career and financial autonomy
• family histories.