Training policies for migrant women. The case of Barcelona

Abstract

This article shows the result of a research on the analysis of training policies addressed to foreign migrant women in the city of Barcelona. This work is a result of workshop during a PhD Sociology course (University Autònoma de Barcelona). Apart from the descriptive material on the existing programmes, qualitative techniques focused on in-depth interviews to key-informants have been adopted. The analysis has been organised according to three thematic topics: the philosophy behind those policies, the adoption of an interaction model among the different social actors (institutional, cuasi-institutional and extra-institutional) in a welfare mix context and the contextualisation of those policies in the labour market dynamics.