Responding to important research gaps at the intersection of conflict studies, migration studies and urban studies, this project sets out to investigate the formation of transnational ‘urban warscapes’ between cities in Eastern Congo and Flanders. From the specific perspective of female everyday spatial experiences, this project aims to provide a better spatial understanding of the dialectical relationship between migration, war and urbanisation across the transnational Flanders-Eastern Congo geography. A team of researchers trained in political anthropology, human geography and architectural ethnography, will generate original scientific data through collaborative multi-sited fieldwork in secondary cities in both DRCongo and Flanders, involving both qualitative and quantitative data collection methods. The team will investigate the transnational mobility and reconfiguration of conflict narratives and social tensions that emerge from the protracted civil war in Eastern DRC, and its impact on urban settlement patterns and home-making practices (with specific focus on the role of women) in the Congolese diaspora in Flanders. Ultimately, the project will deliver a novel transnational epistemological and analytical framework and empirically grounded theory-formation on the reconfiguration of urban spaces through the de- and re-territorialisation of violent conflict dynamics within transnational fields.