In popular songs, televised media, news outlets, and online venues, a jabaaru immigrE ("a migrant's wife") may be depicted as an opportunistic gold-digger, a forsaken lonely heart, or a naIve dupe. Her migrant husband also faces multiple representations as profligate womanizer, conquering hero, heartless enslaver, and exploited workhorse. These depictions point to fluctuating understandings of gender, status, and power in Senegalese society and reflect an acute uneasiness within this coastal West African nation that has seen an exodus in the past thirty-five years, as more men and...