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How Does One “Leave” Poverty? - Socio-Identitarian Requalification Processes (PRSI) for Portuguese Women in the Basque Country, According to the Sociological Analysis of Oral Discourse

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How does one “leave” “poverty”? It is the answer to this question that may help us fight poverty, by addressing the issue on positive terms: reorienting the - conventional - angle of observation-analysis of the causes and factors for one’s fall-impoverishment (what is poverty? who are the poor/what are they like? - negative formulation), until we grasp the complexity of exit, the processes of socio-identitarian requalification (PRSI). We have been developing this analytical-understanding model of social trajectories since the late 90’s, and have co-composed 31 narratives of migrant Portuguese women, Exemplary Cases, selected by social intervention specialists from San Sebastian, Basque Country. This paper does not follow a “typical” research structure because we choosed and focused on the contributions of this qualitative research for the development of social knowledge about fitting poverty, in spite of doing one approach of the methodology out of the context of their one production and results. Based on these results obtained, along this paper we explain the 7 PRSI components and also deepen the interpretative analysis and treatment of one of those narratives, Sara’s, highlighting the triangle FAITH in Prayer and in Luck.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    This methodologic process initiated with 31 cases which had been determined by social action technicians among their social services users (various organizations) as experiencing PRSI. We considered 5 hypothetical conditions-tool-criteria for this kind of personal experience [2]: Mono-motherhood, Death, Leadership, Abuse, and Handicaps; and also 5 guide-factors-criteria — economic-material; relational; affective-emotional; symbolic-cultural and of power; and dispositional. The gradual deepening of the “PRSI model” instigated the selection and re-categorization of the 31 cases [2] in order to a deeper analysis of 5: Paloma, Mafalda, Esmeralda, Amélia - and Sara, presented in this paper, although some of our conclusions refer to the first 4 cases [2].

  2. 2.

    Regarding the concepts of identitarian strategies, tactics and aims, see [3, 4]; [5,6,7].

  3. 3.

    I.e.: social attributes and designations of material/spiritual, dignified/undignified, socialized/innate, individual/collective poverty; subjective/objective factors; socio(ethno)centrism and androcentrism.

  4. 4.

    Studies from the end of the Middle Ages to the 70’s, published until the 90’s. Cf. our analyses [8,9,10,11,12,13].

  5. 5.

    Cf. contributions, significant for us, by Pierre Bourdieu [14,15,16,17] and Claude Dubar [18, 19].

  6. 6.

    This is one of the exemplary cases which integrated our PhD research [2], reason for which time contextualizations and dates report to that 2008 context.

  7. 7.

    The Basque Country, according to migrant talk of the time.

  8. 8.

    Cf. our proposal for a notion of socio-identitarian territories [2].

  9. 9.

    There was the couple, two daughters and one son aged 5-6, and her younger brother, aged 24.

  10. 10.

    See the articulated and innovative definition of identitarian construction, and its respective change and social evaluation, by Dubar [18, 19].

  11. 11.

    Capital-resources identified in PRSI which we explain later.

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de Fátima Toscano, M. (2018). How Does One “Leave” Poverty? - Socio-Identitarian Requalification Processes (PRSI) for Portuguese Women in the Basque Country, According to the Sociological Analysis of Oral Discourse. In: Costa, A., Reis, L., Souza, F., Moreira, A. (eds) Computer Supported Qualitative Research. ISQR 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 621. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61121-1_13

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