Mulheres e guerra: reintegração social das mulheres regressadas das zonas da Renamo no distrito de Mandlakaze

Abstract

The work is part of the problematic of the social history of War in Mozambique, trying to answer some gaps related to a category of the population affected by the war, women kidnapped to Renamo bases. The central debate focuses on the process of reintegration of these women in their villages, in the district of Mandlakazi. The study consists of three moments with women before the beginning of the war, where it is intended to see how they lived, their main activities, obligations towards the family and the community. The second moment analyzes the beginning of the war and the abduction of women to the bases. Activities carried out at the bases, relations with soldiers. The last moment focuses on all aspects related to social and economic reintegration. The community has demonstrated that it has appropriate and flexible mechanisms capable of recovering or improving ways of integrating its population, in this case, women returning from the Renamo bases. For this purpose, its main supports are "traditional" ceremonies, guided by the father or a healer. However, in this society, the reintegration process depends a lot on the role played above all by the husband's family. It is through this that social reintegration is completed, thus allowing economic reintegration(TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)