The agency of migrant women: Challenges and opportunities in reception centers during the SARS-CoV-2 virus pandemic

In the current society, characterised by rapid transformations, the pandemic emergency is inducing an unexpected and pervasive change that challenges the same sociological theoretical models. In particular, those associated with the figure of the foreigner can be revisited in the light of the increasingly feminised migration experience, from which more numerous identity variables emerge, in addition to gender, to determine the specificity of migrants’ agency. Comparing between the theories and some qualitative data from a survey carried out in the migrants’ reception centres during the lockdown period enhances the female migrants and their processes of mutual adaptation.