To inhabit across borders. A theoretical study on migrant women and transnational and cross-border homes

Abstract

This paper interrogates how international migrant women develop experiences of homemaking across simultaneous spatialities. Is conducted a theoretical analysis of the uses of the concept of home in migration and border studies since the last decade of the twentieth century, with a specific focus on the transnational and cross-bor-der dimensions of the phenomenon. It explores the particularities of cross-border homes, assuming that the research carried out in border territories has revealed an intensification of the inequalities experienced by women in these areas. Following the Heideggerian debates it is proposed that the inequalities experienced by migrant and cross-border women are materialized in their bodies and in their experiences of inhabit-ing, which has multidimensional implications in the way they articulate their homes. Fi-nal reflections on migration, women and the homemaking across borders are proposed.