Migratory flows have expanded with the increased movement of women from Latin America and other continents to Brazil, in addition to the emigration of Brazilian women to the Global North. Considering the context of the feminization of migration and the importance of understanding women's oppression in the face of displacement, this scoping review analyzes, from an intersectional perspective, scientific evidence on health and expressions of violence against migrant women in Brazil and Brazilian women abroad. The adopted databases are VHL, Cochrane, Embase, PubMed, SciELO, Scopus, and Web of Science, using descriptors related to the topic. Twenty-six documents were included for analysis. Regarding the health of migrant women, the results indicate that migration has implications for access to and care for health, sexual and reproductive health, mental disorder, and the manifestation of suffering, in addition to barriers to access to health services due to intercultural and linguistic aspects. Both migrant women in Brazil and Brazilian women abroad suffer from intersectional violence, including expressions of racism, xenophobia, racial and gender inequality in the workplace, obstetric, sexual, and patrimonial violence, and conditions analogous to slavery, in addition to the hypersexualization of Brazilian women in the Global North. However, despite the challenges, oppression, and violence, the review shows the resistance and protagonism of migrant women throughout their life trajectories, as individual and collective strategies are developed to guarantee their rights as migrants and women.
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