This research project examines the migration trajectories of Turkish women to the city of Ghent in the 1960s and 1970s, and their role as agents in local arrival and community/family networks. In line with recent international research on (the history of) migration and gender, this project aims to move beyond traditional views on female migrants as passive followers in male migration trajectories, whose emancipation depended on participation in wage labour. By considering female migrants' migration trajectories, social resources, and community networks in their own right, and by adopting an actor-perspective that aims to reconstruct the experiences and voices of Turkish women of the first generation of immigrants to Ghent, this project will deepen our understanding of post-World War II migration and provide new insights into the roles played by Turkish female migrants in the 1960s and 1970s. The proposed research will combine the methods of oral history and archival research.