MIGRANT LIVES | Abuse of Migrant Domestic Workers

Today we are going to open a door that many prefer to keep closed: the reality of thousands of migrant women working in the domestic and care sector. A reality marked, all too often, by silent abuse. When a person migrates and works in a home, three factors of extreme vulnerability intersect: being a woman, being a foreigner, and working in the private sphere. Because it is not an office or a factory, what happens inside a house remains out of the public eye. This becomes the perfect setting for exploitation: endless working hours, wages below the minimum, lack of rest, and, in the most serious cases, withholding of documents or psychological violence under the threat of deportation. There is a very deceptive phrase that is often heard: "She is like family." But the reality is that she is not family; it is a labor relationship. And using affection to demand unpaid overtime or 24-hour availability is, plain and simple, abuse.

 

Patricia López Muñoz 

Student of English Studies 

High Technician in Sociocultural Animation 

Specialist in Immigration 

High Technician in Social Integration 

MIGRANT LIVES | Being A Muslim Woman in Identitarian Europe

Imagine it is today in any European city. You are a young woman, and you are told that the veil is either a symbol of pure oppression or an absolute banner of freedom. At the surface of the debate, the discourse sounds like a simplified headline. We hear voices claiming that neutrality is the only way to belong to Europe, that a piece of fabric can erase your identity or define it entirely. It is a clash of romanticized or demonized ideals. But the reality of daily life, of the look in people's eyes on the subway, and the search for a place in a pluralistic society is about to change that simple narrative forever. Soon, the polish of the political speeches fades. Voices emerge that don't speak from television studios, but from the complex reality of the streets.

Let's talk about the women who wear it and those who don't, but who all face the same prejudice. Their experience is a punch: direct, sometimes bitter, always nuanced. They don't want to be icons or victims; they want to be citizens. They introduce the concept of "lived identity." In the famous debate about the veil, they break the aesthetic and political labels to show us a woman who breathes, works, and struggles, far from the "old lie" that tries to reduce her to a single symbol. With them, the debate stops being a caricature and becomes an urgent testimony of coexistence.

 

Patricia López Muñoz 

Student of English Studies 

High Technician in Sociocultural Animation 

Specialist in Immigration 

High Technician in Social Integration 

SPECIAL | CHAPTER 4: The Rights of Iranian Women

  

 

Reading the graphic novel "Persepolis", we can get an idea of the change from the Shah's rule to that of the alatoyahs.

The discrimination and exclusion of women by the theocratic regime seriously violates a fundamental principle of international human rights law such as equality and non-discrimination, enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in treaties that Iran has ratified and is obliged to comply with. such as the Charter of the United Nations and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Many governments forget that international treaties are mandatory

And it does so, furthermore, without considering repressive means or methods.

A good example of this is the relentless surveillance of the 'morality police' to impose Islamic laws that require the female population of nine years or older to cover their hair with a veil. The officers tour the cities and can stop any woman to check if she is showing strands of hair, but also if her pants and coat seem short, if they consider her clothes too colorful or too tight, or if they think she is wearing too much. make-up.

Patricia López Muñoz 

Student of English Studies 

Higher Technician in Sociocultural Animation

Specialist in Immigration

Higher Technician in Social Integration

SPECIAL | CHAPTER 3: The Rights of Saudi Women

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don't know what they give them and what they promise them. I understand that they are professionals, but if they no longer lack money, is it ethical to play in a country like Saudi Arabia? It is not the fault of its population. When I speak like this I speak about the government. And I refer to the evidence:

From birth and throughout their lives, women in Saudi Arabia remain under the supervision of a male member of the family, usually her father or husband. They need a permission and consent for matters as simple as starting certain studies, living alone, getting married, accessing certain medical treatments or even getting out of jail. Defying these prohibitions or disobeying a “guardian” may be grounds for sanctions.

I remember a committee for women and there wasn't one in the photo. I remember a manager who said that Saudi women could go to the bathroom in stadiums...

I support the fight of women to be able to drive.

 

Patricia López Muñoz 

Student of English Studies 

Higher Technician in Sociocultural Animation

Specialist in Immigration

Higher Technician in Social Integration

SPECIAL | CHAPTER 1: Acid Attacks in India

 

Between 2017 and 2021, 1,000 attacks were reported, and there are hundreds of cases that never come to light. The majority are attacks on women by men seeking revenge. One of the victims, Shaheen Malik, has created a NGO to provide help and support.

Europe is not spared from this scourge: it is estimated that there could be 3,000 acid attacks a year. The victims are almost always young women.

Sheroes Hangout (the heroine's hangout) is a shelter managed solely by survivors of acid attacks, a type of attack that occurs almost daily in the country. In India there are at least three acid attacks a week (370 attacks in 2015, according to the annual crime report of the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs).

 

 

 

Patricia Lopez Muñoz
Student of English Studies
Higher Technician in Sociocultural Animation
Specialist in Immigration
Higher Technician in Social Integration

STORIES FROM HORROR | Psychiatry and Women in the First Half of the 20th Century

Greetings to all listeners. I'm back with another episode packed with incredible content. It's an honor to share this space and time with you.

This episode isn't comfortable. It doesn't intend to be. Today I open pages that many would like to close: dictatorships that crushed voices, crimes hidden under flags, silences that still scream. You'll hear fragments of memory and analysis that are unsettling. Because to remember is to resist. Because forgetting is also violence.

When I was studying for my third-year English literature exam, there came a point in my notes when philosophical currents, psychiatry, and sexology appeared. Speaking of psychiatry, the theories caused me such unease that I refused to write them down in my handwritten notes because of their absurd and violent concept of women.

The simplistic notions reduced women to always being submissive objects. It seemed as if they were bothered by the fact that their power was waning.

If this story moved you, share it. If you think there's something that shouldn't be silenced, write to me. We'll talk again in the next episode.

 

Patricia Lopez Muñoz
Student of English Studies
Higher Technician in Sociocultural Animation
Specialist in Immigration
Higher Technician in Social Integration