Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Nigerian Women in Context: (Re)Telling (Her) Story 3. My Journey into the Research Field: Methodological Choices and the Research Process 4. Reconstructing the Past from the Present: Participants’ Lived Experiences in Nigeria 5. Migration Decision Making: Linking Possible Selves to Imagined Futures 6. You’re "On Your Own" (O Y O): Negotiating Early Days Experiences and Integration in the UK 7. Working, Wife-ing and Mothering in the UK: Trajectories of Life Changing Experiences 8. Conclusion

About the Author

Joy Ogbemudia is Lecturer at Leeds Business School, Leeds Beckett University, UK.