Female migration is still often addressed passively or as forced migration, for example with people in the roles of a woman joining her household or as a victim of sexual exploitation.
Yet, the backgrounds and experiences of these women migrants are diverse and in a large number of cases they are women acting on their own migration project.
Therefore it becomes necessary to bring a gender-based approach in order to observe the specificities of this migration, notably in the tensions it uncovers linked between emancipation from and obligation to gender roles from the countries of origin and in the countries of destination.
Trajectoires conducted a study in 2023 based on families experiencing homelessness in Paris, which required an analysis more specifically of the case of Women from the Ivory Coast.
Study in French - Étude sur les familles en situation de rue à Paris (2023) PDF