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Women in migration: An Institutional Ethnography of Agency, Empowerment and Resistance inside Reception Facilities.

This research project aims at addressing the question of agency, empowerment, and resistance inside reception facilities designed to accommodate migrant people that have not had access to material help due to the lack of state facilities, neither a right of stay. More specifically, it focuses on women in migration and their specific intersectional experiences of reception and starts from the case study of the Sisters’ House – a reception facility for migrant and refugee women located in Brussels – in order to develop an analysis of the institution of reception as it is organized in Europe.

Date:11 Jan 2023 →  Today
Keywords:Migration, Feminism, Postcolonialism, Gender-based violences, Reception facilities, Safe space
Disciplines:Ethnicity and migration studies, Postcolonial studies, Radical and critical sociology, feminist studies, Race and ethnic relations, Sociology of gender and gender relations
Project type:PhD project