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Gender and Migration
Isabel Rodriguez Mora | Monica Kiwanuka | Stavros Psaroudakis | Caroline Kihato | Khatidja Chantler | Sajida Ismail | Julie Middleton | Chandre Gould | Alexandra Zavos | Professor Erica Burman | Ingrid Palmary | Peace Kiguwa | Khatidja Chantler
(2010)
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Abstract
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.
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.
'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
Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
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About the Editors | ii | ||
1 | Gender and migration: feminist interventions | 1 | ||
Interrogating the ‘and’ in gender and migration | 1 | ||
Visibility, vulnerability, credibility | 7 | ||
PART ONE: Visibility and Vulnerability | 13 | ||
2 | Gender, migration and anti-racist politics in the continued project of the nation | 15 | ||
Introduction | 15 | ||
Genealogies of struggle: introducing ‘support action’ | 16 | ||
The development of anti-racist discourses on ‘the problem’ of migration | 18 | ||
Gendered anti-racist politics in practice | 24 | ||
Conclusion | 29 | ||
Note | 30 | ||
3 | The problem of trafficking | 31 | ||
Introduction | 31 | ||
The problem of defining trafficking | 32 | ||
Research methods and the problem of numbers | 37 | ||
Critiques of the trafficking discourse | 41 | ||
The securitisation of the problem of trafficking | 44 | ||
Conclusion | 47 | ||
Notes | 48 | ||
4 | Sex, choice and exploitation: reflections on anti-trafficking discourse | 50 | ||
Introduction | 50 | ||
The problem of trafficking | 51 | ||
Reflecting on choice and agency | 53 | ||
Re-imagining home | 58 | ||
Colonial legacies | 60 | ||
Conclusion | 62 | ||
Note | 63 | ||
PART TWO: Asylum | 65 | ||
5 | Barriers to protection: gender-related persecution and asylum in South Africa | 67 | ||
The South African asylum system | 68 | ||
Common crime vs. persecution (personal vs. political) | 71 | ||
Safe/unsafe, peace/war? | 76 | ||
Culture as political | 80 | ||
Conclusion | 83 | ||
Notes | 84 | ||
6 | Safe to return? A case study of domestic violence, Pakistani women and the UK asylum system | 86 | ||
Introduction | 86 | ||
Background | 87 | ||
A transnational focus on gender, culture, racism and domestic violence | 89 | ||
Pakistan: specific issues | 92 | ||
Pakistan and the UK: commonalities | 93 | ||
Service provision in the UK: service ‘breakdown’ | 95 | ||
Service provision in Pakistan | 97 | ||
The 1951 Refugee Convention: protection ‘home’ and‘away’? | 99 | ||
Evidence in asylum case-law | 99 | ||
Conclusion: safe to return? | 101 | ||
Notes | 102 | ||
7 | Women seeking asylum in the UK: contesting conventions | 104 | ||
Current statistical overview | 105 | ||
1951 UN Convention and gender | 108 | ||
The continuing importance of the 1951 UN Convention | 111 | ||
Borders, public mandates and technology | 113 | ||
Conclusion | 116 | ||
8 | Explicating the tactics of banal exclusion: a British example | 119 | ||
Introduction | 119 | ||
Home Office discourse as performative | 122 | ||
Talking institutions | 123 | ||
(Un)Structuring the analysis | 125 | ||
A cursory attempt at identifying discourses | 128 | ||
Discursive motifs: structure vs. fluidity | 129 | ||
From gender-specificity to being treated as an individual | 131 | ||
Conclusion | 133 | ||
Appendix: interview schedule | 135 | ||
Notes | 137 | ||
PART THREE: Depoliticising Migration | 139 | ||
9 | Now you see me, now you don’t: methodologies and methods of the interstices | 141 | ||
Introduction | 141 | ||
The limits of words | 142 | ||
Research method | 143 | ||
Figure 9.1 The research group at one of our meetings | 144 | ||
Women’s social economic and legal contexts in Johannesburg | 146 | ||
Interrogating power in the research process | 147 | ||
Research as performance | 151 | ||
Identity building: migrant women’s self-portraits | 154 | ||
Figure 9.2 Florence getting ready to go out | 155 | ||
Figure 9.3 ‘Here is me, Mama Africa’ | 155 | ||
Figure 9.4 Jean in front of a luxury car in a mall | 157 | ||
Dialectic between visibility and invisibility | 158 | ||
Conclusion | 161 | ||
Notes | 162 | ||
10 | For love or survival: migrant women’s narratives of survival and intimate partner violence in Johannesburg | 163 | ||
Introduction | 163 | ||
Background | 164 | ||
The immigration context and migrant women’s undocumented status in South Africa | 165 | ||
Survival love and intimate partner violence | 167 | ||
Negotiating intimate partner violence for survival | 173 | ||
Conclusion | 176 | ||
Notes | 178 | ||
11 | Re-housing trouble: post-disaste rreconstruction and exclusionary strategies in Venezuela | 180 | ||
Introduction | 180 | ||
Disaster in a divided society | 181 | ||
Shelters and the temporary breakdown of social distances | 183 | ||
Psychosocial interventions and the othering of the poor | 184 | ||
Re-housing and the restoration of social distances | 192 | ||
Conclusion | 194 | ||
12 | An arm hanging in mid-air: a discussion on immigrant men and impossible relationships in Greece | 196 | ||
Introduction | 196 | ||
Figure 12.1 | 197 | ||
Small talk after the detention space: moments of silence and aporia | 199 | ||
Aporias of mainstream immigration discourses vis-à-vis male immigrants’ desires | 201 | ||
A discussion with Thanasis Tatavlalis on the Weast video: context and background | 203 | ||
Figure 12.2 | 203 | ||
A discussion with Thanasis Tatavlalis | 205 | ||
Figure 12.3 | 208 | ||
Conclusion | 211 | ||
Notes | 213 | ||
Bibliography | 215 | ||
About the contributors | 236 | ||
Index | 238 |