Abstract
ABSTRACT Ageing non-European migrant women often do not have a space to share their stories in a manner that adds meaning to their lives. They are viewed as a group that embodies deficits. This article centres them and their stories to understand how resilience, reworking and resistance practices are embedded in their everyday lives by utilising Katz’s framework of disaggregated agency. The data consist of semi-structured interviews with 20 ageing women from non-European migrant backgrounds in Finland. The findings suggest the need to re-imagine ways of narrating the multifaceted stories of women in the margins and illuminate new pathways for social work by untangling questions on power and who gets to participate as knowers. Shedding light on their untold stories challenges the hegemonic framing of social realities, destabilising the normative understandings of social work, and unravelling the nuanced unconventional strategies of survival and well-being utilised by them in the form of cultivating home place, sisterhood, community, decolonial healing, various strengths, reworking and everyday acts of resistance against oppressive structures. The findings contest the negative perceptions in dominant narratives, which produce problematic construction of migrant women based on their vulnerability.
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