Paper short abstract:

With the help of secondary sources that include living experiences of Central Asian migrant women in Russia and Turkey, this study will analyze the lived experience of women with an intersectional approach and will deal with the phenomenon of migration from a different perspective.

Paper long abstract:

Intersectionality is a theory and methodology that helps to explain systematic oppression or privileges based on race, class, gender, sexuality, etc., that affects groups’ or individuals’ social and political position. Although intersectionality is defined and used by women of color in feminist theory based on Black women’s multilayered oppressions/ experiences, particularly on race and gender, the concept is widely used in the academic world as ‘an analytic tool.’

This paper will reevaluate the concept of migration in Central Asia and the living experience of migrant women in Russia and Turkey within an intersectional perspective. This study seeks to answer how intersectionality helps to understand the lives of migrant Central Asian women. The first part of the paper will explain what intersectionality is and how it is used in the academy. The second part of the study will link migration with intersectionality and evaluate the systematic oppression experienced by migrant women.