‘Little by little grow the bananas.’ The lucrative relations of the Congolese diasporas in Belgium, France and The Netherlands with their homeland, the Democratic Republic of Congo. A gendered perspective. KU Leuven
My research delves from a gendered perspective into the various directions and forms of material exchange between the Congolese diasporas in Belgium, France and The Netherlands and their homeland, the Democratic Republic of Congo, while looking into the potential for developmental outcome that this connection has on the migrants themselves and on the homeland populations. Throughout this study I shall look into the commodities traded by the ...