Category: Empowerment

Reference: Aceros, J. C., Duque, T., & Paloma, V. (2021). Psychosocial benefits and costs of activism among female migrant domestic workers in Southern Spain. Journal of Community Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22610 Abstract: Economic migrant women often experience oppressive living and working conditions in the receiving societies. Activism is a liberatory behavior these...

Reference: Buckingham, S.L., Langhout, R.D., Rusch, D., Mehta, T., Chávez, N.R., Ferreira van Leer, K., Oberoi, A., Indart, M., Paloma, V., King, V.E., & Olson, B.(2021). The roles of settings in supporting immigrants’ resistance to injustice and oppression: A policy position statement by the Society for Community Research and Action....

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. Journal of Community Psychology, 48 (5), 1438-1451. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22338 Abstract: This study aims to analyze the processes of resilience and empowerment...

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,...

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: Hernández-Plaza, S., García-Ramírez, M., Camacho, C., & Paloma, V. (2010). New settlement and wellbeing in oppressive contexts: A liberation psychology approach. In S.C. Carr (Ed.), The psychology of Global Mobility (pp. 235-256). 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., & 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. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2009.11.005 Abstract: This paper describes the role of grassroots associations in...

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