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This paper examines the entrepreneurial activities of female migrants in the informal artisanalfishing sector along the coastal line of Congo-Brazzaville. It shows the extent to which thesewomen have achieved an insertion into a market niche, fish smoking, which builds on the livelihoodsof co-ethnic migrant fishermen. Women rely on tile fish supplied by male migrants includingtheir husbands to run their fish smoking activities. In return, they re-invest part of the proceeds intheir husbands' fishing business. This interdependency of livelihoods reflects a reconstruction ofgender-relations within the household which links matrimony to migration as an asset-accumulationstrategy. The observed patterns in enterprising amply support the view that vulnerable householdsare capable of mobilising additional labour - in this case women's labour - in order to diversifytheir sources of income. The paper also demonstrates how inter-spouses partnering generate cohesionwithin the household and provides a mechanism for pooling income and other resources andfor sharing business risks. In this regard, the household can be perceived as safety net and migrationis indeed a strategy through which assets are accumulated in the host society. Little evidencehas however come from the paper to suggest an effective emancipation and social autonomy onthe side of the entrepreneurial woman. The relations of subordination seem to prevail, although lessintense than before.International Bibliography of Social Science

Matrimony relations and business in a fishing migrant community (periphery of Pointe-Noire, Congo-Brazzaville)