Cadeias globais de cuidados nas migrações cabo-verdianas: mulheres que ficam para outras poderem migrar

Abstract

This article is based on fieldwork conducted with women of four generations, belonging to five families living in the locality of Burela (Galicia) and their domestic groups originating from the island of Santiago. We present three ethnographic cases, which exemplify different forms of transnational organization of care, taking into account that the generic assignment of this sphere in exclusive to women, combined with factors such as the kinship orientation of the family, the position in the family kinship scheme or their generation, opens or closes their migratory opportunities and their capacity for agency in the face of their own mobility and that of their close relatives. These are three figures very present in badiu society, from whose perspective the family configurations and dynamics through several generations will be described.