Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg, Broom Professor of Social Demography and Anthropology at Carleton and co-director of Africana Studies, presented a paper titled “Friendships for Future: Middle-Classing Selves and Children in the Cameroonian Diaspora” at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany. The occasion, held Oct. 26-28, was the inaugural workshop of the Otto-Hahn Research Group on Gender, Migration and Social Mobility among Transnational West African Women, which seeks to better understand the thorny path to the middle class among West African migrant women in Europe.