Rendre visible l'activisme des femmes migrantes

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.