The feminization of migration is one of the phenomena that characterize the contemporary globalization and it is present in Canada and Quebec. This phenomenon affects all ethnic groups and social classes, professionals and nonprofessionals. However there exist few studies on the process of insertion and the living conditions of migrant women who have acquired an academic degree prior to their arrival. The lack of information about Latin-American women graduates is surprising, especially because such immigrants have been received in Canada since 1968. To fill that void, this article proposes to document, with two ethnographic studies, who these women are and what are their social conditions. We also discuss about the problems they must face during recycling in the academic world, and the problems they have to fit on the work market in the pluriethnic society of Montreal after obtaining their degree.