Category: Empowerment

Reference: Garrido, R. (2019). Hacia la Equidad en Salud en Andalucía: Diagnóstico de la incorporación de una perspectiva sensible a la diversidad cultural y al género en las políticas y servicios sanitarios. Sevilla: MAD África. Abstract: Este estudio se enmarca en el proyecto Nder: Alzando la voz desde los feminismos...

Funded by: Diputación de Sevilla, Ayuntamiento de Carmona y Universidad de Sevilla
Coordinator: Fátima León Larios
Duration: Mayo 2017

Funded by: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
Coordinators: Manuel García-Ramírez and Virginia Paloma
Duration: Ongoing project

Reference: Garcia-Ramirez, M., Soto-Ponce, B., Albar-Marín, M.J., Parra-Casado, D.L., Popova, D., & Tomsa, R. (2020). RoMoMatteR: Empowering Roma Girls’ Mattering through Reproductive Justice. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health,17(22), 8498. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17228498 Abstract: Aim: To present a protocol study directed at tackling gender discrimination against Roma girls by...

Coordinator: Jennie Popay (University of Lancaster)
Duration: Ongoing project

Funded by: European Union’s Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme (2014-2020)
Coordinator: Manuel García-Ramírez
Duration: Ongoing project

Reference: Suarez-Balcazar, Y., Viquez, F., Miranda, D., & Early, A.R. (2020). Barriers to and facilitators of community participation among Latinx migrants with disabilities in the United States and Latinx migrant workers in Canada: An ecological analysis. Journal of Community Psychology, 48 (8), 2773-2788. doi: 10.1002/jcop.22452 Abstract: Abstract Individuals migrate to improve their...

A la opinión pública: El final del verano y el comienzo del otoño, que en muchos espacios se considera comienzo de nuevos proyectos y procesos, se presenta nefasto en general y especialmente denigrante para el colectivo de personas migrantes en España y Europa. Y aunque podemos seguir pensando que es...

Reference: Miranda, D. E., Garcia-Ramirez, M., Balcazar, F. E., & Suarez-Balcazar, Y. (2019). A Community-Based Participatory Action Research for Roma Health Justice in a Deprived District in Spain. International journal of environmental research and public health, 16(19), 3722. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16193722 Abstract: Addressing health disparities and promoting health equity for Roma...

Reference: Albar-Marín, M. J., & Miranda, D. (2019). Abogacía por la salud de la población gitana: capacitación de profesionales del Distrito Sanitario Sevilla. Gaceta sanitaria, Vol. 34 (4), 411-414. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaceta.2019.07.010 Abstract: This article describes a workshop whose objective was to build Roma health advocacy capacity among a group of health...

Reference: Paloma, V., de la Morena, I., Sladkova, J., & López‐Torres, C. (2020). A peer support and peer mentoring approach to enhancing resilience and empowerment among refugees settled in southern Spain. J Community Psychol, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22338 Abstract: This study aims to analyze the processes of resilience and empowerment experienced by...

Reference: Garrido, R., & Cubero, A. (2019). La participación socio-política de las mujeres negras africanas en Sevilla (España). ODISEA. Revista de Estudios Migratorios, 6, 1-30. Abstract: La progresiva feminización de las migraciones no se ha traducido en el aumento de la participación de las mujeres migrantes en las sociedades receptoras. Probablemente,...

Reference: Arild, A., Escobar-Ballesta, M., & García-Ramírez, M. (2017). Narratives against gender-based violence in a community of Pakistani women in Norway. Fokus på Familien, 3, 227-245. doi: 10.18261/issn.0807-7487-2017-03-05 Abstract: Gender-based violence (GBV) is a global and trans-cultural challenge of systemic nature, and migrant women seem to be especially vulnerable to such atrocities,...

The Platform We Are Migrants aims to defend migrants’ rights (health, education, employment…) and to promote wellbeing in intercultural communities. On the contrary, the Platform rejects all kind of violence towards migrant populations by institutions, organizations, racist groups or people, etc. The Platform We Are Migrants was born from two...

Reference: Garrido, R., & Delgado, A. (2017). La Voz y la Mirada de Jóvenes Refugiados/as en Grecia: Photovoice como Herramienta de Investigación-Acción Comunitaria. Papeles de Trabajo sobre Cultura, Educación y Desarrollo Humano / Working Papers on Culture, Education and Human Development. Número monográfico “5th International Health Humanities Conference”. Abstract: In April 2016, a photovoice workshop was held...

Reference: Acosta, M. E., Albar, M. J., García-Ramírez, M., & Aguilera, A. (2017). Implementing a cultural competence training as a psychopolitical empowerment process. Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community, 45, 70-80. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10852352.2016.1197744 Abstract: The cultural competence training (CCT) of health care professionals represents a useful resource to face the...

Funded by: Fundación Lafourcade-Ponce para el Bienestar Psicológico
Coordinator: Virginia Paloma
Duration: 2016 – 2017

Funded by: the International Organization for Migrations and the DG SANTE
Coordinator: Roumyana Petrova Benedict (IOM Regional Office Brussels)
Duration: 2013 – 2015

Reference: Albar, M. J., García-Ramírez, M., López, A. y Garrido, M. (2012). Spanish Adaptation of the Scale of Psychological Empowerment in the Workplace. The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 15, 793-800. Abstract: The objective of this study is to adapt and translate into Spanish Spreitzer’s Psychological Empowerment Scale (1995a). A process of...

Reference: Hernández-Plaza, S., García-Ramírez, M., Herrera Sánchez, I., Luque-Ribelles, V. y Paloma, V. (2012). De la opresión al bienestar. Explorando Poder, Opresión y Bienestar entre Inmigrantes Marroquíes en España. Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice, 3. Full text: http://www.gjcpp.org/pdfs/2012-Lisboa-060.pdf

Reference: Garcia-Ramirez, M., de la Mata, M., Paloma, V. y Hernandez-Plaza, S. (2011). A liberation psychology approach to acculturative integration of migrant populations. American Journal of Community Psychology, 47, 86–97. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10464-010-9372-3 Abstract: This paper describes an acculturative integration approach that stresses the contribution of liberation psychology. Immigrant integration is a challenge...

Reference: Garcia-Ramirez, M., Albar, M. J. y Paloma, V. (2011). Migrant liberation psychology: Coalition for the Study of Health, Power and Diversity. The Community Psychologist, 43, 5-6. Full text: https://cespyd.es/a/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/8.pdf

Reference: Albar, M. J., Garcia-Ramirez, M., El Karkri, M., Luque-Ribelles, V. et al. (2010) .Contributions of Liberation Psychology to the Integration of the Immigrant Population. Psychosocial Intervention, 19, 223-234. Abstract: Mobility is a human dimension that has been a part of human behaviour since humanity began. However, the actual exodus of...

Reference: Hernandez-Plaza, S., Garcia-Ramirez, M., Camacho-Martínez Vara De Rey, C.G. y Paloma-Castro, V. (2010). New settlement and wellbeing in oppressive contexts: A liberation psychology approach. In The psychology of Global Mobility. New York: Springer. Full text: https://cespyd.es/a/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Newsettlementandwb.pdf

Reference: Paloma, V., Garcia-Ramirez, M., de la Mata, M. y Association AMAL-Andaluza. (2010). Acculturative integration, self and citizenship construction: The experience of Amal-Andaluza, a grassroots organization of Moroccan women in Andalusia. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 34, 101–113. Abstract: This paper describes the role of grassroots associations in the acculturative...

Reference: Luque-Ribelles, V., Garcia-Ramirez, M. y Portillo, N. (2009). Gendering peace and liberation: A participatory-action approach to critical consciousness acquisition among women in a marginalized neighborhood. In The Psychology of Liberation: Theory and Application. Nueva York: Springer. Full text: https://cespyd.es/a/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Genderingpeace.pdf