In this paper we analyze the discourses of a heterogeneous group of Peruvian women who are actively involved in immigrant social organizations operating in the Metropolitan Region of Santiago. From a qualitative approach we seek to interpret the meanings that women give to their gender relations in the context of the migration process and how these relationships are articulated with their social participation. The analysis emphasizes those elements that are problematized or stressed by women, accounting for possible changes and transformations of dominant gender relations, but also those aspects that are naturalized and limit their participation. The conclusions of the study outline some elements that restrict their linkage and maintenance in participatory spaces. These elements are employment characterized by social stratification based on nationality, gender and class; another outstanding factor are relationships of domination partnerships, naturalization of motherhood and female identity in the service of others. Women also report agency and resistance practices that question unequal power relations in which they are embedded. In addition to these elements, their discourses question de category of "immigrant woman" in terms of its homogeneity and fixation, constructing it as a multiple and shifting subject.