Gender and Migration: Feminist Interventions

by Isabel Rodriguez Mora (Contribution by), Monica Kiwanuka (Contribution by), Stavros Psaroudakis (Contribution by), Caroline Kihato (Contribution by), Khatidja Chantler (Contribution by)

Overview

Provocative 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848134102
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/01/2010
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Ingrid Palmary is a senior researcher in the Forced Migration Studies Progamme at the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg. She has written on a range of topics including gender based violence in times of armed conflict, the gendered nature of displacement and the intersections of 'domestic' and 'political' violence.

Peace Kiguwa lectures in Psychology and currently Gender and Human Rights at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Erica Burman is Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies in Manchester Metropolitan University. Her most recent books Deconstructing Developmental Psychology (2008) and Developments: child, image, nation (2008) reflect these themes.

Khatidja Chantler is a lecturer and researcher in Social Work at the University of Manchester. She is also a counsellor and supervisor and has worked in health and social care settings for over 25 years.
Ingrid Palmary is a senior researcher in the Forced Migration Studies Progamme at the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg. She has written on a range of topics including gender based violence in times of armed conflict, the gendered nature of displacement and the intersections of 'domestic' and 'political' violence.

Peace Kiguwa lectures in Psychology and currently Gender and Human Rights at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Erica Burman is Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies in Manchester Metropolitan University. Her most recent books Deconstructing Developmental Psychology (2008) and Developments: child, image, nation (2008) reflect these themes.

Khatidja Chantler is a lecturer and researcher in Social Work at the University of Manchester. She is also a counsellor and supervisor and has worked in health and social care settings for over 25 years.

Table of Contents

1. The problem of trafficking - Chandre Gould
• 2: Poor girls: child migrants, sexuality and poverty in South Africa - Ingrid Palmary
• 3: Gender, migration and victimization in the renewed project of the nation - Alexandra Zavos
• 4: Gender based violence in South African asylum applications - Julie Middleton
• 5: Safe to Return? A trans-national case study of domestic violence in Pakistan and refugee protection in the UK - Sajida Ismail
• 6: Women, asylum madness - Khatidja Chantler
• 7: Explicating the tactics of banal exclusion - Erica Burman  * 8: Talking back: methodologies and methods of the interstices  - Caroline Kihato
• 9: Narratives of migration and domestic violence - Monica Kiwanuka
• 10: Re-housing trouble: Post-disaster reconstruction and exclusionary strategies in Venezuela - Isabel Rodrigo Mora
• 11: Immigrant men in Greece: A video, an interview and some thoughts on their impossible relationships - Stavros Psaroudakis

Editorial Reviews

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

“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 is a critical resource for 21st century feminist scholars, practitioners, activists, students and policymakers.” —Jude Clark, University of KwaZulu-Natal

“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 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 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

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