COUV ACTES - Psychologie communautaire

Community Psychology: Common Values, Diverse Practicesdifferences, cultural, social class, race and ethnicity. Whether in the same or different continents. Be in differentregions or the same. The debate was also enriched by discussion of studies on migrant women.Mies (1993) had already pointed to the different needs of women from North and South. Similarly, we can seefrom the reflections made by D'Ávila Neto (2006). The author points out the income gap still exist between menand women, denouncing however, that this discrepancy is still very high in Latin America and even moreproblematic when it comes to women of lower classes. The range of perspectives represented coupled with thepostcolonial studies, has pointed to significant reflections in the sense of trying to understand social and culturalaspects related to the female condition in this context. In other words, combining the inequalities arising from thedifficult social condition that is embedded in the migration processes such as the plight of the female condition.What has been observed is that the narrative analysis allows us to extract the real experience of the femalecondition, as suggested in reports of women. Women of flesh and bone, in the sense given by Braidotti(2000). An experience fraught with its own meanings. In this respect, no matter if women accept or challenge therules, but that "their narratives recount the process of constructing a self, and are rich in illustrations of femaleidentity" (Baptista, 2006). Francis (2002) reflecting on the work of writer Leila Sebar, algerian who emigrated toFrance as a teenager, discusses the issue of the recount, focusing on the body´s narrative of culturally minoritysubjects, particularly the female subject, pointing the resonances of issue otherness as a work of fracture: “cettealtérité a des résonances dans l’oeuvre postcoloniale, qui en tant qu’oeuvre de rupture en quête d’une expressionsusceptible de traduire des expériences de vie radicalement différentes d’une tradition européenne...”(Francis,2002, p.5). This issue of otherness related to female subject, across borders, with many different reflections, plusthe issues of ethnicity and social class.Studies that focus on the question of social recognition has enriched this debate. Bring to discussion thepossibility to understand the facts, actions, movements and groups that bring people into the social dynamics.This includes the issue of social conflicts have roots as the struggle for recognition, as pointed out by Honneth(2003) and still the update brought by Fraser (2007) through her analysis of the importance of not leaving asidethe redistribution, under penalty of eventually lead to a deletion of the issues relating to economic inequalities, ina social order which is marked by global and social injustices. Fraser's thesis (2007) is that feminism today, facinga transnational politics, is fully capable of making a synergy between recognition and redistribution. And thisbrings us to another important step in the narrative analysis in discussions involving the female subject. It isperceived that this approach has a broad feature, which can cross the debates at the time of their investigationpractice. These two notions are important categories and should serve as a basis for building newunderstandings when it tries to articulate the information brought by the narratives collected.Another issue is the use of audiovisual resources as supplements to the narrative analysis. For D'Avila Neto andBaptista (2007), it eventually became a key strategic and as a complement to the elucidation of the narratives.Telling stories is a possibility to rescue the body testimony, the authors add. In this sense, Hirsch (2002) reportsan interesting photographic work done by Lorie Novak in the USA in 1988, titled "Self Portrait". This work alludesto Ellis Island, first place of entry of generations of immigrants and refugees from Europe to the USA. Thephotographer tried to do, according to Hirsch, an analogy between the picture of Ellis Island and the "self portrait"138