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Book SynopsisProvocative and intellectually challenging, Gender and Migration critically analyses how gender has been taken up in studies of migration and its theories, practices and effects. Each essay uses feminist frameworks to highlight how more traditional tropes of gender eschew the complexities of gender and migration. In tackling this problem, this collection offers students and researchers of migration a more nuanced understanding of the topic.
Trade Review'This original collection brings a feminist, intersectional and interdisciplinary lens to question the seemingly innocuous ‘and’ in discussions of gender and migration. Highly recommended.' Rosalind Gill, King’s College 'Reading this book, which is highly recommended, you are swept into postcolonial countries as well as into the old heart of Europe and you will necessarily loose the sense of innocence and neutrality in relation to your own thinking and conceptualizing.' Frigga Haug, The Berlin Institute of Critical Theory 'This book makes a significant contribution to the growing literature on the gendered character of migrations as well as that of states and societies' responses to them.' Nira Yuval-Davis 'This is a theoretically rich exploration of gender and migration. Each chapter covers crucial issues, but the collection as a whole makes key interventions in understandings of policy and humanitarian issues. It is provocative and imaginative in its careful, scholarly and accessible treatment of issues frequently taken for granted by governments, international agencies and human rights activists. It deserves to become essential reading, not only in a variety of academic disciplines, but by those working in, and legislating about, migration as well as the wider public.' Ann Phoenix, Institute of Education 'This is a must-read for anyone in the ever-widening fields of international relations and migration studies.' M. Brinton Lykes, Boston College 'This book is a critical resource for 21st century feminist scholars, practitioners, activists, students and policymakers.' Jude Clark, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Table of Contents
- Gender and migration: feminist interventions
- Part I: Visibility and Vulnerability
- 2. Gender, migration and anti-racist politics in the continued project of the nation - Alexandra Zavos
- 3. The Problem of Trafficking - Chandré Gould
- 4. Sex, choice and exploitation: reflections on anti-trafficking discourse - Ingrid Palmary
- Part II: Asylum
- 5. Barriers to Protection: Gender-Related Persecution and Asylum in South Africa - Julie Middleton
- 6. Safe to Return? A Case Study of Domestic Violence, Pakistani Women, and the UK Asylum System - Sajida Ismail
- 7. Women Seeking Asylum in the UK: Contesting Conventions - Khatidja Chantler
- 8. Explicating the tactics of banal exclusion: a British example - Erica Burman
- Part III: Depoliticizing migration
- 9. Now you see me now you don't: methodologies and methods of the interstices - Caroline Wanjiku Kihato
- 10. For Love or Survival: Migrant Women's Narratives of Survival and Intimate Partner Violence in Johannesburg - Monica Kiwanuka
- 11. Re-housing trouble: Post-disaster reconstruction and exclusionary strategies in Venezuela - Isabel Rodríguez Mora
- 12. An arm hanging in mid-air: a discussion on immigrant men and impossible relationships in Greece - Stavros Psaroudakis
