Cape Verdean Women in France: Postcolonial Journeys and Transnational Family Projects

Abstract

This article analysis the life journeys of Cabo Verdean women living in Paris, and, from these, discuss the Cabo Verdean presence in France in its multiple and complex realities. The three life stories presented allow an examination of the Cabo Verdean migratory reality in Europe today, and its capillarity built on extensive family networks. Additionally gives visibility to the, historically and sociologically, neglected female migration field study, discussing the configuration of female immigration and the place of migrant women in Cabo Verdean society and in the diaspora, and the place of kinship structures and family organisation in these complex mobility processes.