Women on the Move

About Browse

Women on the Move was initially created by COST Action 19112, WEMov. It focuses on women’s migration across time and disciplines, and it encourages the interplay between different approaches and periods, unveiling the presence and contribution of women migrants to the structuring and consolidation of sending and receiving nations, be they in the past or the present.

The objective of this collection is to make women migrants visible because migration has long been analysed from a gender-blind perspective and women’s presence made invisible by an overwhelming focus on men and families.

The collection encourages groundbreaking theoretical and methodological approaches, unrestricted to any specific discipline. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Age
  • Education
  • Family
  • Femininities
  • Human rights
  • Labour
  • Material culture
  • Sexualities

Collection advisors: Marie Ruiz (Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France), Katelin Parsons (Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, Iceland), Sónia Ferreira (Centre for Research in Anthropology - NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal), Livia Prosinger (Institute of Political History, Hungary), Nicoleta Roman ('Nicolae Iorga' Institute of History & New Europe College-Institute for Advanced Study, Bucharest, Romania), Stellamarina Donato (Libera Universita Maria Santissima Assunta, Italy)