While academic research has focused on binational marriages (i.e., marriages between partners of different national origins), transnational divorce is still under-researched in the field of migration and family studies. Drawing on qualitative data, this paper analyses the testimonies of Brazilian and Cape Verdean migrant women concerning their experiences of marriage and divorce from Portuguese partners. We adopt an intersectional approach to highlight how some central categories—gender, social class and migration status—influence their agency and consequences of marital disruption. Contrary to studies in which migrant women are victimised after divorce, our results reveal that, for these women, marital dissolution is an empowering strategy to end up their unhappy marriages.

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跨国婚姻中的跨国离婚：葡萄牙-巴西和葡萄牙-佛得角夫妇的案例

虽然学术研究集中在跨国婚姻（即不同国籍的伴侣之间的婚姻），但跨国离婚在移民和家庭研究领域的研究仍然不足。本文利用定性数据，分析了巴西和佛得角移民妇女关于与葡萄牙伴侣结婚和离婚的经历的证词。我们采用交叉方法来强调一些核心类别——性别、社会阶层和移民身份——如何影响他们的代理和婚姻破裂的后果。与移民女性在离婚后成为受害者的研究相反，我们的研究结果表明，对于这些女性来说，婚姻解体是结束她们不幸福婚姻的一种赋权策略。