In order to challenge the existing narratives surrounding refugee and migrant women, this seminar presents the outcomes of two interrelated projects that address women’s mobility across borders. These projects utilize case studies focusing on forced migration across the central Mediterranean route, as well as labor exploitation in the Sicilian countryside.

The presentation is centered around women’s bodies and narratives, examining how class, gender, and race inequalities shape physical and social borders, as well as the construction of gender violence. This seminar highlights the survival stories and experiences of migrant and refugee women, particularly highlighting their acts of resistance, challenging pf power structures, and assertion of rights

Presented by the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at The New School for Social Research,  The New School, The University of Milan, and supported by Horizon2020 project ITHACA – Interconnecting Histories and Archives for Migrant Agency: Entangled Narratives Across Europe and the Mediterranean Region (funded by the European Union); PRIN2020 project MOBS – Mobilities, solidarities and imaginaries across the borders: the mountain, the sea, the urban and the rural as spaces of transit and encounters (funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research); Horizon MSCA Global Fellowship MEMODIAS – Memory Practices of the Afghan and Somali Diasporas in the USA and Italy (funded by the European Union).