Research Workshop | Ways to Inhabit a New City: Women Migrants' Everyday Lives in Europe and Asia

This research workshop aims to foster exchange among scholars in gender studies, urban studies, and migration research. Discussions will delve into key themes such as friendship, network-building, violence, placemaking, health, and urbanity, drawing on fieldwork conducted by researchers across Europe with diverse ethnic groups of migrant women.

Funded under the project “Everyday Worldmaking: Comparative Experiences of Asian Migrant Women in Paris and Singapore,” this workshop seeks to bring together researchers studying the experiences of migrant women in cosmopolitan cities across the globe.

This event, headed by Hélène Le Bail (CNRS, CERI-Sciences Po, France), Shivani Gupta (NUS College, National University of Singapore) and Lucia Gentile (IC Migrations, France), is structured into four parts: 

Panel 1: Establishing New Professional and Friendship Networks

• Lauren Wagner (Maastricht University, Netherlands) — “Feeling at Home in Public: Diasporic Moroccan Women Negotiating Léisure in the Netherlands
• Aurélie Varrel, (CNRS, CEIAS-EHESS, France) — “Perspectives on Indian Women Migrants in India: Intersectionality and the City”
• Rosa Weber (INED, Stockholm University, Sweden) — "A Gender Perspective on the Role of Social Contacts in Accessing the Job Market for Migrants in Sweden"

Panel 2: Navigating Social and Health Services

• Nichola Khan (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) — “Reflections on Afghan Migrant Mental Health in Clinical and Non-Clinical Settings: Movement and Circumscription in the Lives of Women”
• Lucia Gentile (IC Migrations, France) — “Perinatal Care in Translation: Linguistic Barriers, Racialization, and Health Inequalities for South Asian Migrant Women in Paris”
• Maria Iasagkasvili (ESO-Rennes, France) — tbc

Panel 3: Preventing Stigma and Violence

• Rika Lee (Chuo University, Japan) — “Resisting Racism, Sexism, and Colonialism: the Experiences of Korean Minority Women in Japan”
• Emma Peltier (LAB/UCLouvain, Belgium ; LVMT, France) — “Roma Women’s Access to Public Space Restricted by Gender and Racist Violence”
• Hélène Le Bail (CNRS, CERI-Sciences Po, France) — "Chinese Migrant Sex Workers Trying to Modify the Definition of Street Violence in Paris"

Roundtable Discussion: Methodologising Migrant Everyday Lives in Metropolitan Cities

Chair and Speaker: Shivani Gupta (NUS College, National University of Singapore, Singapore), in discussion with workshop panellists.