Description of the integration initiative implemented
My arrival in France was marked by my desire to continue my university studies. I wanted to specialise in gender studies, which is not very well developed in my country. I approached the Campus France organisation in Cameroon and applied to French universities. After interviews with various agents of the 'university study in France' unit, my application was accepted by the University of Reims. It is through this means that I arrived in France in September 2009 and that I joined the Master in Private Law option "Public and Private Administrator for Africa".

Personal story
Coming from a developing country (Cameroon), I come from a family of 5 girls and 1 boy. In my country, priority for education is given to boys. My father always wanted his daughters to study. For him, the more a woman has a degree, the more independent she is and the less she is obliged to marry to support herself. So I was immersed in this atmosphere of graduation to gain independence and emancipation. I decided after my degree, with the support of my father and older brother, to migrate to France to continue my university studies.
My arrival in France in the city of Reims developed my ability to persevere and to become independent. With no family in the city, my older brother living in Lyon, I learned to support myself through student jobs.
When I returned to Cameroon in 2011 after the death of my father, my ambition was to stop my studies and find a job to help my mother and sisters financially. I quickly abandoned this idea following the behaviour of my uncles who despised my sisters and me, believing that we had no right to speak because we were women. They thought that my father, instead of financing his daughters' studies, would have done better to spend his money on other things. Outraged by this, I began to oppose all decisions made by my uncles regarding my father's inheritance, while making them understand that as a woman, a family member and the daughter of the deceased, I also have a say in the decisions to be made.
From that moment on, I realised that the years spent in France had completely changed my vision of the place of women in Cameroonian society. From this frontal opposition, I realised that I no longer wished to reduce myself to the subordinate position assigned to me by men. I decided to enrol in a thesis, to succeed in my studies and to find a job in France. The aim is to show my family members that a woman who migrates to Europe has the possibility of succeeding by her own intellectual means without marrying a Frenchman to obtain a residence permit and a job. It is therefore this desire to break with the presuppositions of migratory success through marriage and the subordinate status of women in Cameroon that I decided to invest in my integration in France through my university studies.

Analysis of the initiative and individual story
The individual story of my interviewee underlines the importance of acquiring knowledge. Her story shows that women from developing countries are looking for social recognition. They want to obtain the same status as men within the family and society. In order to achieve this status, they migrate to get a university education, a degree and then a job. The case study of my interlocutor reveals the need for more training on gender and the place of women in developing countries. It also reveals the urgent need to train academic and NGO staff in gender issues.

Results and Impact
Thanks to this migration, my interlocutor was able to acquire a doctorate, which enabled her to establish her inclusion within her migrant society. This migratory success has also enabled her to gain the respect of her family, but also of the Cameroonian academic community. Every year she goes to Cameroon to teach anthropology and the various rectors of the universities where she teaches present her to the students as an example of success. Her involvement in associations working with migrants in France also enables her to encourage them to integrate through the administrative regularisation system available to them. However, the fact remains that the proportion of female students from African countries who obtain a job commensurate with their degree remains very low. Indeed, despite being a successful female migrant example, my interviewee emphasised the difficulty of establishing herself professionally as a migrant. For her, the lack of emergence of the issue of the socio-professional integration of immigrant women is the result of the marginalisation of social science studies on the subject of female immigration.