Cahiers du Genre
Volume 51, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 135-154

Making migrant women's activism visible [Rendre visible l'activisme des femmes migrantes] (Article)

Erel U.*
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Abstract

Migrant women are marginalized from political representation in their countries of residence. Making their political activism visible can help challenge narrow conceptions of citizenship. Drawing on life-story research with migrant women from Turkey, the article shows the changing fields of politics, and subjects of politics constructed by migrant women in Germany in the 1990s. It explores how migrant women challenge ideals of authentic political identities in homeland politics, as well as the development of a self consciously cross-ethnic political subject as migrant and Black women.

Author Keywords

citizenship Women's movements Women and migration Turkey Germany Racism

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84882428550&doi=10.3917%2fcdge.051.0135&partnerID=40&md5=d9fb76f18cada256d9e2638228c41164
DOI: 10.3917/cdge.051.0135
ISSN: 12986046
Cited by: 1
Original Language: French