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Miyamoto, Bénédicte Ojala-Fulwood, Maija Čapská, Veronika Bakas, Fiona Eva Lyman, Igor Barros del Río, María Amor Bostenaru Dan, Maria Comino, Alba Frigren, Pirita Konstantinova, Victoria Martins, Heidi Prosinger, Lívia Räsänen, Pauliina Ristovska-Josifovska, Biljana Ruiz, Marie 2025-01-13T12:28:10Z 2025-01-13T12:28:10Z 2024-10-25 2732-5121 http://hdl.handle.net/10259/9885 10.12688/openreseurope.18433.1 2732-5121 Este artículo está incluido en la colección: Women on the Move This article investigates the memorialization of migrant women across transcultural landscapes, and analyses results from the Register of Migrant Women Landmarks in Europe (hereinafter RMWLE), central to the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) action project “Women on the Move” (CA19112 – WEMov). It serves as reference for subsequent research based on data from this Register, for which data collection is continuing. The RMWLE registers toponyms, such as monuments, plaques, streets and other infrastructures named after women with a significant history of migration. It honours aspects rarely prioritized in memorialisation agendas, which are skewed towards men’s stories, and towards the more linear biographies of sedentary figures whose European, national, and regional memorialisation have remained uncomplicated by migration. This Deep Data study reveals recurring patterns at the level of Europe in the memorialisation of these women migrants. The diversity of stories, the richness and the prominence of landmarks devoted to men compared to women is a subject well-covered in memorialisation studies. This unbalance is compounded by the data from our register which shows landmarks on women migrants that are sometime tokenized, often marginalized, and which reproduce the bias towards nurture and care that have besieged the memorialisation of women in general. It further shows that the memorialisation process and the political and cultural mechanisms of official celebration often work against the recognition of cross-border careers and stories. The intersectionality of the project, highlighting both gender and migration, uncovers a political landscape of toponyms – and we reflect on how this register can help combat cultural prejudice by recovering migration episodes. The RMWLE helps us reflect on the defining impact of migration episodes, a reality rarely underlined in the biographies of famous women. This article favours a storytelling approach, to counter dominant cultural narratives and knowledge practices. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Framework Programme for Research & Innovation as part of the COST Action [CA19112 Women on the Move], as supported by the COST Association (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). application/pdf eng F1000 Research Limited on behalf of the European Commission Open Research Europe. 2024, V. 4, 234 https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.18433.1 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/COST Actions/19112/EU/Women on the Move/WEMov/ Atribución 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Gender inequality Migration Toponomy Cultural memory Memory politics Critical place-naming Mujeres emigrantes Memoria colectiva Women immigrants Collective memory Materiality of Memorialisation: Mapping Migrant Women's Landmarks in Europe info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Open Research Europe 4 234