This chapter follows Jane, the only African woman interviewed in this study, across a four-year trajectory from Cameroon to Mexico and, ultimately, to settlement in the U.S. Her case illuminates how gender, race, and professional identity reshape risks and opportunities along the Central and North American corridors. Drawing on longitudinal ethnography (2021–2025) in Tijuana and subsequent follow-ups in Pennsylvania, the chapter shows how Jane navigated institutional infrastructures—COMAR, INM, UNHCR/IOM, and a faith-based sponsor network—while contending with racialized housing markets, precarious work, and bureaucratic limbo. Jane’s caregiving skills and maternal status made her legible to humanitarian actors and opened access to support that was rarely extended to the men in this study, yet this recognition also imposed expectations of respectability, dependency, and “deservingness.” By situating her decisions within a moral economy of care, the chapter argues that gendered vulnerability operates as both pathway and constraint: it can unlock mobility, resources, and status, while simultaneously reproducing inequalities and partial incorporation. Jane’s story demonstrates that “arrival” is provisional; migration continues as a daily negotiation of documentation, labor, and belonging across transnational attachments.