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“Narratives of female migrants: Processes of gender, ethnicity and class, and the impact of policy”
| Debates on intersectionality have recently come to focus on the question of how the concept can be applied to empirical studies, on the one hand, and public policy, on the other. In this paper, I draw on the narratives of female migrants, firstly to discuss how different social processes – of gender, ethnicity and class – intersect on an everyday, experiential level. Emphasizing structure as well as agency in relation to how the migrants are positioned in society, I consider both the obstacles and forms of disadvantage they face, and ways in which they attempt, and sometimes manage, to overcome these. Secondly, I try to illustrate how different policies and policy areas impact on the lives, opportunities, and narratives of the female migrants, and furthermore, I consider how the women’s experiences can be used to inform policy, particularly with regards to the issue of tackling multiple forms of disadvantage.
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