Raquel Nazario Motta is a PhD Candidate (Migrations, Social Psychology) at FP-ULisboa. She received her master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil and has more than 15 years of experience as a clinician in a multicultural environment with families and children in the Middle East. Her research centers around intersectionality, psychology and geography, gender, Brazilian women, self-dialogue, cultural transformation, qualification migration, deterritorialization and reterritorialization. It aims to contextualize self-transformation under exposure/adaptation to new environments.
PhD Candidate: Migrations, Social Psychology
Institute of Social Sciences (ICS), University of Lisbon (UL)
Titled Migrant Women: The Self-Transformation of Female Brazilians in Dubai, this thesis draws from the disciplines of psychology and geography to study the experiences of qualified Brazilian women in the United Arab Emirates. The decision to migrate to the Middle East is influenced by multiple factors including, but not limited to, micro and macro environments, economic factors, culture, politics, academic qualifications, and personal goals. Based on theories of decentralized self-dialogue and reterritorialization, the interdisciplinary approach fleshes out the process of self-transformation and the influence of reterritorialization on subjective experiences at home and in the workplace applied to a multidimensional sample population. The research aims to add to the existing but limited body of literature on qualified women who migrate to the Middle East and interact with Islamic culture and societies.
Keywords: women, Brazilian, high qualified migration, self dialogical, culture, psychology