by Madeleine Wong
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic forced people across the world to grapple with insecurities and deep uncertainties while reworking and reconstituting social life in a globally linked “new normal.” This study investigates how the COVID19 pandemic disrupted the professional and personal lives of highly skilled Ghanaian migrant women and how they adapted to these challenges. Based on qualitative narrative interviews, the findings reveal that these women navigated crisis and precarity by mobilising local and transnational resources and adopting flexible mobility strategies. The paper demonstrates how gendered
care expectations and mobility restrictions expose the friction between class privilege and vulnerability in reconfiguring transnational families.
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