Mohamed’s store. Transnational spaces, Muslim practices and gender relations among Senegalese migrants in a small city in Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract This paper addresses the specificities of Senegalese migratory experiences and the transnational connections that support this migratory flow, based on Muslim Mourides´ principles. The reflections are grounded on ethnographic research carried out for two years in a small city of Rio Grande do Sul. The analysis focuses on life stories of migrants whom we have met at Mohammed’s store, qualified as a transnational space, and emphasizes particularities of these stories observed in gender relations laid down by Mourides. This study deals with gender relations and gives visibility to this migratory contingent, which does not appear in the record of the Senegalese migrants distribution in this state.