Cadernos CESPUC de Pesquisa Série Ensaios

Theme: Immigrant and refugee women in literature: voices, displacements and resistance

“Can the Subaltern Speak?’ — this question by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak continues to resonate in contexts where female voices are silenced or translated by hegemonic narratives. When it comes to immigrant and refugee women, especially those from backgrounds impacted by wars, humanitarian crises, political persecution, or structural inequality, it becomes even more urgent to listen to their stories and critically reflect on the regimes of visibility that shape their experiences.

This issue of Cadernos CESPUC proposes to gather articles that investigate, from various perspectives, the trajectories, challenges, and resistance strategies of women in situations of forced or voluntary migration. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, in one of her most famous TED Talks, reminds us that “the single story creates stereotypes. And the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete”. We start from this critical awareness to consider the plurality of stories and perspectives on the migrant women, making visible experiences that cross borders, languages, and bodies.

We invite researchers to submit articles that explore literary representations written BY or ABOUT immigrant/refugee women related to:

Intersectionality between gender, race, class, ethnicity, and migration

Life narratives, testimonies, memory, and exile literature

Transnational feminisms and resistance practices

Reception, integration, and support networks

Education, language, and culture in migration contexts

Invisibilities, stigmas, and subaltern voices