(social, cultural, economic, and else conditions)
We can understand social identity construction as an action that aims to define or characterize oneself, and often in relation to feelings of attachment to different groups of belonging (family, cultural group, gender, etc). The identification action is often performed through narratives, which offer meaning to life trajectories that have experienced turning points, as migration. A person´s social identity is also constructed in dialogue with social categories. In this sense, a migrant woman´s social identity integrates social categories and schemes related to her gender, migration and sociocultural and economic circumstances, as they are reproduced or resisted in her own agentive personal narrative and everyday positioning.
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