Map series in Undesirable

Description: Created for Jennifer Anne Boittin’s book, Undesirable: Passionate Mobility and Women's Defiance of French Colonial Policing, 1919-1952, from The University of Chicago Press. Featured here are three out of five maps included in the book. The maps illustrate movement of various women through French West Africa (French: Afrique-Occidentale française; AOF) in the early 1900s. Locations and itineraries were gathered from a combination of firsthand accounts contained in journals and letters as well as from policing and immigration documents.

Published: 2022

Data sources: primary and bureaucratic documents

Tools: ArcGIS Pro; Adobe Illustrator

Media: Print, grayscale