Huma, from the Women of the World exhibition. UNU-GCM. All rights reserved.This policy report arose from the ethnographic project “Women of the World: Home and Work in Barcelona”, carried out by the United Nations University, Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility (UNU-GCM) in order to explore key aspects of migration, relocation and settlement in an urban context with a specific gender focus, by means of oral and visual documentation.
Some concepts in (female) migration literature deserve more attention, both those used to describe the process of relocation as well as the process of settlement. This report explores the social aspects of relocation and settlement by providing an overview of opportunities and challenges for women in a strange city trying to integrate into the community. As background, a short overview of existing supranational debates connects existing knowledge to the oral documentation collected in the “Women of the World” project. Barcelona is characterised as a city of migration, with specific attention to its “Interculturality Plan” and the “Anti-Rumour campaign”. Several policy recommendations to promote the integration of female migrants within host societies conclude the report.
