Labour Market Transitions and Intersectional Barriers: Insight on Morrocan Women in Catalonia for new policy Approach

The migration of women of Moroccan background in Catalonia offers a valuable lens for exploring how processes of social inclusion and exclusion intersect. It is also an opportunity for analyse how access to the labor market is crossed by gender, race and power relationships. Moroccan women navegate ongoing processes of identity negotiation and sociocultural adaptation, often shaped by specific forms of discrimination that are reinforced by the concurrence of multiple axes of oppression. This presentation analyses how gender, race, and migratory background shape the labour trajectories of women of Moroccan origin in Catalonia. The study examines the ways in which care responsibilities are managed, with particular attention to the domestic work and care sectors. The main objective is to identify the mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion that emerge from the intersection of these factors, as well as the strategies, forms of agency, and practices of resistance and resilience that women develop to confront the social and labour structures that shape their opportunities and experiences. This research is based on a qualitative approach that includes in-depth interviews with Moroccan women of different ages and two focus groups with human resources professionals. The results reveal that the diversity of experiences and labour trajectories among women of Moroccan origin challenges the political and institutional frameworks that still operate under homogenizing and assimilationist logics. Far from a single narrative about migration and integration, plural pathways emerge that highlight the interdependence between public policies, structural conditions, and individual and collective strategies of adaptation, resistance, and transformation. These findings are essential for understanding and rethinking public policies and institutional practices aimed at labour inclusion. Women of Moroccan background are not merely objects of policy, but producers of new forms of citizenship and belonging, capable of re- signifying and transforming the social spaces they inhabit. This research is a significant contribution to the critical reflection on the so-called inclusion policies, while promoting an analytical and political frameworks that recognise Morrocan women in Catalonia as active subjects and agents of transformation throught a situated context analysis and intersectional lends.