‘Successful’ Women of the Transnational Field: Gender and Social Mobility among Sierra Leonean Women in Europe KU Leuven
The research project aims at analysing gendered strategies and performances of social mobility in contexts of migration, based on the practices of Sierra Leonean women who live in Europe and who are part of wider transnational networks. The main hypothesis is that gender impacts the type of strategies that women deploy in order to access social mobility in migratory contexts, as well as the way they insert and position themselves within ...