Gendered educational trajectories and transnational marriage among West African students in France

Kringelbach, Hélène Neveu

doi:10.1080/1070289x.2014.939190

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“…Such frustrations are common amongst migrants who feel that their families 'back home' do not understand the many challenges and high living expenses that they be exposed to (cf. Kringelbach, 2015). The situation of the migrant above often applies to men as well but, in this case, the expectation of sisters supporting sisters might be invoked.…”

Section: Contested Expectationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gendered Dynamics in West African Migration

Setrana

Kleist

2022

IMISCOE Research Series

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Much of the discourse on West African migration ignores gender perspectives or tends to focus on women ‘as’ gender while men are portrayed as, perhaps unwittingly, neutral or un-gendered. On the contrary, both men and women migrate from their homes either permanently or temporarily with or without their families. These movements impact on the traditional family system of many countries within the region and the migrants themselves. The traditional notion of the male as a ‘bread winner’ and ‘mover’ has witnessed changes; remittances transferred by both males and female migrants are used to support and improve the wellbeing of households; gender division of labour and its associated roles are re-negotiated when females migrate independently; and some female migrants are abused and exploited at destination areas. The analysis in the chapter thus indicates that there are key gendered dynamics of the impacts of migration on migrants themselves and their households. Additionally, family relations are central in the gendered dynamics of remittances, migration aspirations, and return migration. In the process, masculinity and femininity ideals are negotiated and changed, even if patriarchal norms continue to affect notions of female migration in some settings.

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Section: Contested Expectationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gendered Dynamics in West African Migration

Setrana

Kleist

2022

IMISCOE Research Series

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“…Certain phenotypes are articulated with meanings within specific cultural and geo-economic contexts resulting in distinct formations. For example, in Europe, those visually categorized as White are perceived to be simply "European," and those not White are perceived as raced and non-European (Hesse, 2007;Murji & Solomos, 2005).…”

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Racial Unspeakability

Hernandez¹

2021

jis

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Increasing diversity in international student mobility/migration has gained attention in recent years (Bilecen & Van Mol, 2017). Diversity in international higher education institutions has primarily been understood in terms of diversity of national origin, meaning the dynamics of racial and ethnic differences are not adequately addressed in the literature (Estera & Shahjahan, 2018). This study uses data collected during semi-structured interviews with international and domestic students, as well as administrators, to identify narrations of race, ethnicity, and nationality that delimit a modern/colonial global imaginary (Stein & Andreotti, 2017). It further demonstrates that internal heterogeneity of both sending and receiving countries leads to varied meaning-making schemes for engaging with embodied racial differences and their attendant affective relations (Ahmed, 2013; Wetherell, 2012). The project suggests the term racial unspeakability as a culturally contingent, affective force that governs narrations of race, ethnicity, and nationality.

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“…But the same was not true of Senegalese women marrying European men, and it was only with the wider access of women to schooling and travel abroad from the 1970s onward that Senegalese women began to marry European men more frequently. In short, the history of Senegalese–European marriage is at once gendered and inflected with class (Neveu Kringelbach 2015).…”

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“Marrying Out” for Love: Women’s Narratives of Polygyny and Alternative Marriage Choices in Contemporary Senegal

Kringelbach¹

2016

Afr. stud. rev.

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This article examines the ways in which childhood and youth experiences of living in polygynous households shape the aspirations of middle-class Muslim Senegalese women to companionate marriage. Increasingly, such aspirations are fulfilled through marriage with European men. In contrast to an enduring popular discourse according to which women live happily with polygyny throughout the Senegambian region, this article shows how some middle-class women's choice to "marry out" is explicitly linked to family narratives and personal experiences of suffering. In a context in which many of these women face strong familial opposition to marriage with non-Muslim European men, this article suggests that the women's narratives provide moral legitimacy to their "alternative" choices.Résumé: Cet article examine comment et de quelles manières les expériences des enfants et des jeunes qui vivent dans des ménages polygames, façonnent les aspirations des femmes sénégalaises musulmanes de la classe moyenne au mariage de compagnonnage. De plus en plus, de telles aspirations sont satisfaites par le mariage avec des hommes européens. Contrairement à un discours populaire qui perdure

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Gendered educational trajectories and transnational marriage among West African students in France

Cited by 8 publications

References 30 publications

Gendered Dynamics in West African Migration

Gendered Dynamics in West African Migration

Racial Unspeakability

“Marrying Out” for Love: Women’s Narratives of Polygyny and Alternative Marriage Choices in Contemporary Senegal

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