“ Italian woman doesn't have anymore. There are pictures of the couple, the couple with the mother and
father, with members of his family who got here from various parts of Italy, along with her friends and with
the one member of her community of relationships that got here from Brazil, with the air
ticket paid for by her husband: her former boss, the lady whose home she worked in as a nanny when she left the countryside and moved to Fortaleza.
On the basis of the sexualization of which they had been the objects, they negotiated their positions inside relationships.
Their idea of 'geographies of energy marked by gender' contributes
to analyzing social agency, taking social positions inside the
a number of hierarchies of energy that function within and throughout a number of territories into consideration, These ideas help to situate the migration of the Brazilians interviewed in a transnational perspective, and due to this fact are necessary in understanding main facets of the valorization of their marriages and
the envy they provoke within the milieu from which they came. ”