ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the question of how women are generally treated in recent African films dealing with immigration under the current conditions of globalisation. By globalisation, I mean the current “neoliberal” turn. The patterns of narrativisation and characterisation have been shaped by the imaginary representation of a journey with departure, voyage, arrival, and eventually return. A genre is in the process of being formulated, and with it roles for women that are also taking form in ways that reflect new dynamics of gender relations and representation.
