“Formerly incarcerated migrant women’s project”: a civil society organization work experience with migrant women in conflict with the law in the city of São Paulo

Abstract

This article aims to present the work experience of Formerly Incarcerated Migrant Women’s Project, of the Land, Work and Citizenship Institute (ITTC), which is focused on the direct assistance to migrant women who left the penitentiary system in São Paulo. The proposal is relating the Project’s work experience with migrant women who were involved with the brazilian penal system with the changes provided by the new brazilian Migration Law (Law 13.445/2017), in addition to the discussion about access to rights and public services and policies in the new set that comes with more migrant women responding to criminal prosecutions and serving sentences outside the prisons. If on the one hand the measures taken in order to avoid the incarceration of migrant women represent an undeniable achievement, on the other hand, the release of the prison does not necessarily represent full access to freedom, bringing a series of new issues to be faced in everyday life.