Struggling for Rights:
African Women and the "Sanspapiers" Movement in France

Cathie Lloyd

doi:10.25071/1920-7336.21933

Struggling for Rights: African Women and the "Sanspapiers" Movement in France

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Cathie Lloyd University of Oxford

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https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.21933

Keywords:

West Africa, France, women, gender, family, labour, sanspapiers, undocumented migrants

Abstract

This article considers the political impact of recent migration of women from West Africa to France in the context of draconian controls (the Pasqua Laws). It outlines the main characteristics of both the migration and the legislation, and analyses the principal features of the eighteen month dispute for the legalization of undocumented workers which has become known as the "lutte des sanspapiers."

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Author Biography

Cathie Lloyd, University of Oxford

Cathie Lloyd , Ph.D., is Director of the Centre for Cross Cultural Research on Women, Queen Elizabeth House , University of Oxford , Oxford, United Kingdom, and a member of the National Council of the Mouvement Contre le Racisme et Pour l'Amitié entre les Peuples (MRAP) in France.

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1997-10-01

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Lloyd, C. (1997). Struggling for Rights: African Women and the "Sanspapiers" Movement in France. Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, 16(4), 31–34. https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.21933

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Vol. 16 No. 4 (1997): Refugee and Immigrant Women: An International Perspective

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