Ecuatorian youth in Spain from a gender perspective

“Bueno, el dibujo no está expresado de la mejor manera, ya que visto a simple vista no se entiende del todo, pero lo que yo he querido expresar a través de este, ha sido, el cómo vemos la mayoría de personas que migramos a un país para mejorar nuestra vida, es decir, como una mano que se extiende y te sujeta dándote ayuda, de aquí viene el “future & hope”  y nosotros, las personas que migramos, seríamos la mano que va a sujetarse. Con esto también lo que he querido dar a entender, es que hay mucha gente que ve a una persona de afuera como un “enemigo” o con malos ojos, yo no voy a negar que hay muchísima gente llega con malas intenciones, con querer que le den todo sin esfuerzo alguno, pero, ese no es nuestro caso. Gracias.” (Nahomi, 2020) Drawing done by Nahomi to participate directly in our project We know what a counter-narratives is about, so we wanted Nahomi to participate in it, so we could give her voice in our work, that it's also her. Cesar couldn’t ...

Nowadays it is shown in the mass media the typical cases of discrimination of the women, the harm that women received from society, and this is a “ Mainstream”, making the good points of society as its evolution and progress about the women role getting invisibilized by the mainstream covered by the news. So, with this counter-narrative, we would like to visibilized the good points and to show that not always it is worst. We want to show that in Ecuador there are families that break out with the typical women’s role. We are trying to give alternatives, possibilities, and not saying that the women in Ecuador are undervalued, because everyone already knows it. An interesting topic for us was how some people do not share the ideology of the majority of the society of the country. In Ecuador, women are undervalued and the differences between gender are very present. As Nahomi’s told us in her interview, her family was against Ecuador’s tradition. For instance...