This chapter discusses the internal migration of young Albanian women to Tirana for educational purposes. Its aim is to investigate how is gender embedded with the process of migration of young women and which are the effects of migration in shaping gendered subjectivities and gender relations. The chapter explores how young Albanian women use education as a platform for migration; how they mobilise social networks to achieve their migration objectives as well as to face the uncertainties in the city of destination. It also expands upon the paradox that embodies these women’s migration process: migration is a way to escape from gender constraints and social control from kinship and community; however, in the city of destination they face highly gendered and sexualised prejudices and constraints that underlie the same mechanism than those they escaped from and put them in new forms of precarity and dependency.

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