This book captures the different ways in which independent women of African origin use migration as a means to escape from circumsatnces at their home countries which were adverse to their well-being. Escaping and leaving the familiar behind, these women were exposed to victimisation and discrimation during the apartheid era in South Africa. In an attempt to adjust to life in a Transnational space, these women have acquired both negative and positive identities. This fine-grained ethnographic account brings in a fresh perspective on Gender and migration.

This book situates transnational entrepreneurship through identity in its more comprehensive personal context by tracking cultural transformation and brings to lens how Ghanaian women entrepreneurs negotiate their day-to-day social identities. It highlights their experiences by capturing the various means by which they express their sense of belonging as a product of their transnational activities. The recent explosion of work on transnationalism has demanded increasingly more fine- grained scholarship that unveils the micro- sociological or 'individual' and gendered level of, the at times,...