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Community Psychology: Common Values, Diverse PracticesMigration and Women’s Narrativeby Maria Inacia d’Avila Neto 1 & Beatriz Aceti Lenz Cesar 2The present work aims to reflect on the scope of narrative analysis in studies on women and migration processesof the inhabitants of poorer regions towards to the big cities. To do so, tried to articulate in discussing feministstudies, postcolonial studies, the question of recognition, which has been decrying narrative analysis as animportant instrument of analysis in these fields.Narratives are a form of communication with the environment. In this sense, taking power as revealing of socialrelations because they allow the subject to dwell upon their world view and their representations. Through thenarratives people evoke memories of situations that happened, reports their experiences, sequence of theseexperiences and still play with the chain of events that build individual and social life (Jovchelovitch & Bauer,2007).The inclusion of narrative analysis in studies of the female condition came to power, considering these aspects ofthe relationship of the reports with the culture, social environment and subjective experiences formatted in thisenvironment. According to Bruner (2002) the stories are personal constructions that blend a multitude of otherstories, allowing access to a social and cultural factors shared. As already pointed out Benjamin (1994), narrationis the ability to exchange experiences.The connexion between the women´s narrative in the context in which they emerge, addressing the analysis ofsocial relations and the significance of gender in women's lives and society, has been the focus of several studies(Braidotti, 2000; Hirsch, 2002; Baptista, 2006; D 'Ávila Neto & Baptista, 2007) whose concern is the constructionof the female condition and how this construction was the casting or undergoing changes, in fact upgrading fromcriticism and reflection in the process of discussion on this subject, with a strong influence on women's lives.Within this perspective, the question that arises is what aspects of that favor a comprehensive understanding ofwomen's studies in different contexts. The first step in this path was the realization that the narratives, given theirconceptual characteristics, makes the common experience or the collective trajectory materialized through a firstperson (collective) of the singular, which is a self syntactic, as pointed Lefèvre ( 2006). Thus, while indicates thepresence of a subject's speech, express a collective reference to the extent that self speaks for or on behalf of thecollectivity. Following this line of discussion, the women's movement realized that found there was enoughmaterial to discuss important issues concerning the status of women, such as violence against women, sexualdivision of labor, dual employment, among others.Later, with the reflections from the date of post colonial relativization, this theme was broadened to a perspectivewhere within the same context of shares, for consideration of the female condition, attention would need to crosscuttingissues, taking into account the existence of differences within the difference. That is, generational1Full Professor Program EICOS - Psycho sociology of Communities and Social Ecology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.2PhD student of Program EICOS - Psycho sociology of Communities and Social Ecology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.137