Description
EMPOWERMENT AND COMMUNICATION TO BOOST EMPLOYABILITY
Book summary
This intervention guide offers a practical methodology for improving the employability of migrant Arab women through empowerment and communication. Based on a pilot educational project, the work addresses the initial deficits that hinder integration, such as loss of self-esteem and linguistic barriers. The authors present a progressive process of self-discovery that seeks to build self-confidence and social projection in the host society, providing trainers with tools for the preliminary support that is essential for social and labor insertion.
What is it about?
The work analyzes the phenomenon of the feminization of migration in Spain, focusing on migrant Arab women working in domestic and care services. This sector, often underground and stigmatized, places them in a position of vulnerability and invisibility, exacerbated by cultural discrimination and linguistic difficulties. Faced with this reality, the authors present a guide that compiles the experience of a pilot course. The program is structured in an initial stage of self-affirmation, through empowerment and communication improvement activities, to facilitate self-confidence and the identity process. The goal is for each participant to build her own social projection and develop the autonomy necessary to make decisions about her professional and personal future.
Main topics
- Personal empowerment and self-esteem in migratory contexts
- Communication strategies to overcome linguistic and cultural barriers
- Social and labor insertion of vulnerable groups, with a gender perspective
- Feminization of migration and precariousness in the domestic and care sector
- Educational intervention methodologies for employability
Who is it recommended for?
This book is aimed at trainers, social educators, social workers, and social intervention professionals working with vulnerable migrant groups. It is also of interest to integration and employment policy makers, as well as students and academics in social sciences, psychology, and law interested in migration, gender, and inclusive employability.
What this book offers
- A practical and validated methodology for working on self-esteem and communication as a prerequisite to labor insertion.
- Tools to humanize and enrich employability processes, offering comprehensive support.
- A specific approach to addressing the needs of migrant Arab women, a group with particular challenges.
- A replicable proposal that allows future trainers to apply the experience in other similar contexts.
Technical data
- Author: LASAGA MILLET, OLGA; PARRA RODRIGUEZ, CARMEN; BARRAYCOA MARTINEZ, JAVIER; LLABINA ESTELLER, MARC
- Publisher: J.M.BOSCH
- Language: Spanish
- Topic: INCLUSIVE EDUCATION/EDUCATIONAL REGULARIZATION, LAW, CITIZENSHIP AND RIGHTS FOR LAYPEOPLE
- Collection: BOSCH
- Edition date: September 2025
- Number of pages: 106
- Weight: 250 g
Editorial review
This guide represents a valuable contribution to the field of social intervention with vulnerable groups, focusing on a preliminary and often forgotten phase of employability processes: personal empowerment. Its practical approach, based on real experience, offers professionals a replicable and well-founded tool to address the initial barriers that hinder the integration of migrant women. The work is of particular interest to those seeking methodologies that combine the psychological dimension with social and labor insertion, standing out for its sensitivity toward cultural and gender specificities.