Voices of immigrant women from prison

Abstract

This paper investigates the conditions of immigrant women in Italian penitentiary
institutions from a “militant” pedagogy perspective. The approach is centered on
the rights and empowerment of people experiencing detention in order to explore
how they combat stereotypes that generate exclusion, as well as to design
educational settings accordingly. Supported by a variety of sources, favoring the
autobiographical and narrative ones, the author attempts to bring light to foreign
women’s experience of imprisonment, to what strategies and resources they implement to withstand prison life and how to identify educational pathways that
stem from the values of a woman’s world.