What are the links between migration, motherhood, gender roles and partnerships? This was discussed at Pavia University, dept of social sciences on Monday before Easter. The research project “Women of the African Diaspora: ‘Herstories’ beyond Numbers in Lombardy” (WAD) hosted Nanna Schneidermann as part of their inaugural project workshop, together with other Italian and international scholars. WAD is a three-year-project that brings together a team of scholars interested in deepening an ethnographic understanding of the life trajectories and reproductive choices of women of Eritrean, Ghanaian and Moroccan diasporas. 

As central discussion in the workshop was how gender and parenting roles are impacted by migration.  Research results from the IMAGENU project on transformations in partnerships in Uganda added important context on how these matters are in flux in "home countries" too, and that dilemmas and questions about family and partnership travel along gendered and generational lines.