ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the experiences of Central and West African women seeking to cross the Morocco–Spain border. Exploring embodied narratives, collected in the field between 2015 and 2017, and drawing on the sociology of migration and gender, it examines both the relations of power and domination that affect these illegalised women, and their modes of agency and resistance. By focusing on their experiences, we gain an understanding of the plurality of the instances and processes of production of vulnerabilities at the border. Their accounts also reveal situations where women, despite violence, exert their power to act, for themselves but also sometimes in support of other women. The research shows the coexistence of different strategies to turn their real or supposed vulnerabilities into tools to try to cross the militarised border.
