Gender and the dynamics of mobility: Reflections on African migrant mothers and "transit migration" in Morocco

Inka Stock (1)

1 UON - University of Nottingham, UK

By describing the everyday lives of African migrant mothers and their children in Morocco, this paper highlights how migration and "immobility" in transit countries are gendering and gendered experiences. Relying on migrants' narratives, the paper demonstrates how migrants' transition to motherhood is shaped by their particular, fractured journeys. It shows how motherhood creates both specific and gendered spaces for agency and particular and gendered constraints upon agency that shape women migrants' mobility dynamics in space and time.

Mots clés: Social Sciences & Humanities

Domaines: Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie

Inka Stock. Gender and the dynamics of mobility: Reflections on African migrant mothers and "transit migration" in Morocco. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2011, PP (PP), pp.1. ⟨10.1080/01419870.2011.594175⟩. ⟨hal-00721226⟩