Economic migrant women often experience oppressive living and working conditions in the receiving societies. Activism is a liberatory behavior these women may employ to transform such situations. This study explores the activism experience of female migrant domestic workers from Latin America settled in southern Spain, in terms of its psychosocial benefits and costs. A purposeful sample of eleven activist migrant women engaged in a grassroots organization of domestic workers and eight members of social organizations supporting their activities were interviewed in-depth individually. After a qualitative content analysis approach to the data, the study presents activism as a community engagement behavior with benefits such as the strengthening of social ties, sense of community, opportunities for sharing stories of oppression, and psychological empowerment. Activism also emerged as a demanding activity requiring high investments in time by activists and producing interpersonal conflicts, hopelessness, and burnout in some cases. Such costs may pose limits to its potential to produce well-being and liberation, implying challenges for research, intervention, and activism sustainability.

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西班牙南部女性移徙家政工人的社会心理利益和行动成本

经济移民妇女在接收社会中经常经历压抑的生活和工作条件。激进主义是这些女性可以用来改变这种情况的解放行为。本研究探讨了在西班牙南部定居的拉丁美洲女性移民家庭佣工的社会心理收益和成本方面的激进主义经验。对参与家政工人基层组织的 11 名激进的移民妇女和支持她们活动的社会组织的 8 名成员有针对性地进行了单独深入访谈。在对数据进行定性内容分析后，该研究将激进主义视为一种社区参与行为，其好处包括加强社会联系、社区意识、分享压迫故事的机会、和心理授权。激进主义也成为一种要求激进分子及时投入大量资金并在某些情况下产生人际冲突、绝望和倦怠的要求很高的活动。这些成本可能会限制其产生福祉和解放的潜力，这意味着研究、干预和激进主义的可持续性面临挑战。