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Book SynopsisWith contributions from a diverse array of international scholars, this edited volume offers a renewed understanding of gender-based violence (GBV) by examining its social and political dimensions in migration contexts. This book engages micro, meso, and macro levels of analysis by foregrounding a conceptualization of GBV that addresses both its interpersonal and structural causes. Chapters explore how GBV frameworks and migration management intersect, bringing to the forefront the specific inequalities these intersections produce for migrant women. Drawing upon several disciplines, the authors engage in co-writing a critical engagement which proposes an original understanding of how the concepts of intersectionality, vulnerability and precarity speak to each other from a feminist perspective.
This volume will be of interest to scholars/researchers and policymakers in Gender Studies, Migration and Refugee Studies, Sociology, Political Science, Trauma Studies, Human Rights and Socio-Legal Studies.
Table of ContentsPart I Against Essentialism and Beyond Abstract Universalism: Theorising Gender-Based Violence in Migration Contexts 1 Thinking about Gender and Violence in Migration: An Introduction 2 Vulnerability, Precarity and Intersectionality: A Critical Review of Three Key Concepts for Understanding Gender-Based Violence in Migration Contexts Part II Policy Intersections: Combating Gender-Based Violence and Managing Migration3 Countering ‘Their’ Violence: Framing Gendered Violence Against Women Migrants in Austria4 The Gender of Canadian Legal and Policy Gender-Based Violence and Immigration Frameworks 5 Gender-based Violence as a ‘Consequence of Migration’: How Culturalist Framings of GBV Ignore Structural Violence Against Migrant Women in France 6 Crimmigration and Gender-Based Violence Against Women Asylum Seekers in Israel Part III Understanding Policy Implications, Foregrounding Women’s Voices 7 Vulnerability and Resiliency: Immigrant Women, Social Networks and Family Violence 8 Between the Law and a Hard Place—A Victim of Trafficking Meets the Norwegian Migration Regime 9 Gender-Based Violence as a Continuum in the Lives of Women Seeking Asylum: From Resistance to Patriarchy to Patterns of Institutional Violence in France10 Conclusion
