Migrações internacionais de mulheres rurais

Abstract

The article analyzes experiences of rural women in international migration processes, concerning their motivations for emigrating, labor insertion abroad and return to the country of origin. The research was
conducted in Itapuranga, Goiás, through semistructured interviews and documentary survey. Socially, international migrations experienced by rural women are perceived as strategies for improving living conditions and developing personal autonomy. In practical terms, migratory experiences are marked by insertion in socially devalued works, through underpaid, informal and unhealthy conditions. International migrations involves economic balances hardly achieved with family labor in the farm, even though rural women submit themselves to several sacrifices.