More than a Migration Status: Examining Intersectionality and Its Effect on the Experiences of Migrant Women in France

Abstract

This article investigates the intersecting parts of a person’s identity to determine the extent to which this multi-layered identity affects treatment received by the local community and associated life experiences. This is done by looking at migrant women in France who originate from Sub-Saharan Africa and how their gender, race, and religion interact with biases and systems of discrimination in the destination country in relation to the identity aspects. Each aspect of identity is evaluated separately with the goal of layering the findings together through proxying to discover how much an intersectional identity creates different life experiences for women migrants.

Keywords:

• Intersectionality
• migration
• gender
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• France