Commerce transfrontalier et migration féminine entre les deux Congo

Sylvie Ayimpam

Revue Tiers-Monde, 2014, vol. n° 217, issue 1, 79-96

Abstract: This paper highlights the migration conditions of women practicing cross-border trading between Kinshasa and Brazzaville. The aim is to analyse how migratory strategies, trade obligations and love relationships articulate in these women?s career-paths. Although this women?s migration between the two cities is of a commuting type, it sometimes entails a temporary settling period in Brazzaville which requires them to do casual jobs or even ?prostitution?. Our interpretation is that, for these women, cross-border trading is an opportunity to rewrite the rules governing gender relations.

Keywords: Congo; cross-border trade; women's migration; gender; free women (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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