Migrant African women
Tales of Agency and Belonging
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2146152 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Olga Guedes Bailey (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 850-867 |
| Publication date | 2012-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01419870.2011.628037 |
| OpenAlex | W2061452228 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 19 |
This paper explores issues of belonging and agency among asylum seekers and refugee women of African origin in the UK. It discusses the ways these women engendered resistance in their everyday life to destitution, lack of cultural recognition, and gender inequality through the foundation of their own non-governmental organization, African Women's Empowerment Forum, AWEF, a collective 'home' space. The focus of this account is on migrant women's agency and self-determination for the exercise of choice to be active actors in society. It points to what might be an important phenomenon on how local grassroots movements are challenging the invisibility of asylum seekers' and refugees' lives and expanding the notion of politics to embrace a wider notion of community politics with solidarity. AWEF is the embodiment of a social space that resonates the 'in-between' experience of migrant life providing stability to the women members regarding political and community identification
Agency (philosophy · Empowerment · Grassroots · Invisibility · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Social science · Sociology · Solidarity · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
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The Social Solidarity Economy Organizations of People of African Descent in Europe
Affirming Methodologies in Two African Diasporic Contexts
Shifting itineraries of asylum hospitality
An Alternative Understanding of Education and Empowerment
Care-full resistance to slow violence
Legal Latins
Developing an independent anti-racist model for asylum rights organizing in England
Association of Proteases of Porphyromonas (Bacteroides) gingivalis with its Adhesion to Actinomyces viscosus
Ethnicity, Inc.
Discipline and Punish
Asylum, migration and community
Ethnicity and Everyday Life
Understanding immigration and refugee policy
Multiculturalism
Suffering, justice, and the politics of becoming
Ethnic minorities, cultural difference and the cultural politics of communication
Theorising narratives of exile and belonging
Home, homeland, homepage
Ethical and Epistemological Tensions in Applying A Postmodern Perspective to Feminist Research
Non-Governmental Organizations and Governmentality
Discipline and Punish
The Dignity of Resistance
Cartographies of Diaspora
Action-Oriented Research
New hybridities, old concepts
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |