" When I call to house, my children ask only me for dinero". He is one of the testimonies of a Colombian woman who emigrated to Spain in search of a better life for her and for her family. More of a million and average one of the immigrants whom there are in Spain they are women. In the case of Latin America, 54% of immigration are feminine. These women separate of their husbands, their children, their surroundings fleeing from the poverty and with the hope from being able to help their children to leave her.

In many occasions, and with concerted efforts they obtain, it. Nevertheless, the price is, sometimes, too high: solitude, uprooting, feeling of culpability, rupture of marriages or fear not to fulfill expectations in the relatives who remain. " Damages colaterales" that they suffer in silence. In the welcome societies, workers take care of more of the majors or children of mothers, but they are neither his majors nor their children. This creates a culpability feeling to them that makes them reframe its future and, even, to ask itself if they did well with leaving his family. They stop finding sense to their presence in Spain and regrets that decision.

They live single and sad, next in some cases to the depression, according to they explain associations of immigrants, like the Hispanic-Ecuatorian Association Rumiahui. " The mothers like I, am the mothers money. We have what there are buscado" , an Ecuadorian young person in a prestigious Spanish newspaper laments itself. In the last year, 7,500 million Euros were transferred by immigrants in Spain to their countries. Thus, Spain has become the second country of the world in shipment of remittances, only behind the United States. The return is not far from easy for the women who emigrate. Their children have learned to live without them or are complete strangers they left if them in charge of other relatives being small.