COUV ACTES - Psychologie communautaire

Community Psychology: Common Values, Diverse Practicesof women in their maintenance (Assis, 2003), most studies are related to international contexts, focusing themiddle class or the affluent population. Regional migration of poorest women seems to exhibit features thatemphasize the importance of networks to ensure their survival and also the maintenance of migration.Although informal, the northeastern migrant’s networks, have characteristics of cohesion and organization thatinfluence directly the chances of success of the new migration. As they can facilitate a good physical andpsychological adaptation, the networks also affect the satisfaction of women in their migrational projects.Moreover, a lack of network, or the absence of significant links, seems to generate a more negative connotationof this experience. With a more sustained discourse, although a similar material and labor conditions 1 .In fact, the migration movement of these women itself promotes and is, dialectically, promoted through a network,that, even informal, sometimes seems to be specialized in a migratory network, with basic and specific ranging –from the financing of the trip to the viability of employment and housing.Each new migration that takes place, each new character that comes from the same city to Rio de Janeiro, bringssatisfaction and generates a kind of recognition for whom who has contributed, making possible the migratoryproject of others. Who succeeds in turning possible the others migration demonstrates a differentiated, betterestablished and more prestigious position in the network. Configuring a dialectical process and reciprocity. Themigrants set out in Rio de Janeiro provides a basis for the newcomers contributing significantly to their physicaland psychological adjustment. On the other hand, the newcomers expand the network of the established migrantincreasing her chances of satisfaction and recognition.The fact that the vast majority of these women end up involved in activities of low prestige and pay, working asnannies and maids can be partly explained by these networks, since most of the time, employment was madepossible by another woman of the network that works in the same function and that has only this universe toexplore 2 . Which in one hand points to fundamental questions about women's work and continuities of genderinequalities – because despite all the recent increases, poorest women still have little access to education and,consequently, to good job opportunities (D´Avila Neto, Nazareth, 2005). But on the other, brings an importantdebate about regional inequalities within a country like Brazil, so that the salaries of these migrant women,although considered very low by the standards of the Southeast 3 , are perceived as satisfactory by the womenwho remain in the northeastern inner cities dreaming and planning to their own migration.Added to this, the lack of employment opportunities in cities like Pirpirituba (PB), limited to a few places in the cityhall, used to be the main motivation for the migration of these women.1How those that we interviewed during the research, Northeastern Migrant Women, coordinated by Professor Dr Maria D'Inacia'Avila Neto,and others who participated in my doctoral research, developed the program EICOS-UFRJ, about women from a small within the city ofParaiba (PB) - Pirpirituba, with about ten thousand inhabitants - who migrated to Rio de Janeiro - with over fifteen million inhabitants.2When looking at your work place is perceived that is common to work nearby, usually in the same neighborhood. Indicating theimportance of the network to the viability of the work and tighten it up.3The average income of them is between one and two minimum wages. Which is currently a monthly gain of U.S. $ 300.00 to $ 600.00.Even though it looks a negligible value, provides guarantees for those who have their formal contract by employers, and should be seen assomething much more than an average of U.S. $ 40.00 received in the city of Pirpirituba (PB), for example, by those who get a tip, takingcare of the house and children neighbors, without any guarantees151