Dear GLOCAL members,
We would like to invite you to a seminar entitled Gender and intersectionality in migration research with Dr. Jasmin Lilian Diab and Dr. Tine Davids and moderated by Dr. Nora Stel. Please find a short introduction below.
The seminar will be held on 24 September 2024 at 16:00-17:30 at EOS 01.220 (online participation available on request via nora.stel [at] ru.nl (nora[dot]stel[at]ru[dot]nl)) and is organized as part of the ‘Revisiting Interdisciplinary Migration Studies’ seminar series created in the context of the NWO-Veni project ‘The Power of Inaction and Ambivalence in Transnational Refugee Governance,’ in collaboration with the Horizon-Europe GAPs project.
We are looking forward to seeing you all there. Registration is welcome so we have an indication of the number of participants but not required. Please registrate by sending an e-mail to nora.stel [at] ru.nl (nora[dot]stel[at]ru[dot]nl).
Best regards,
GLOCAL Team
Motivations for, experiences with, and consequences of mobility are inherently gendered. So are the policies that seek to control and regulate migration. Queer and feminist theories have made crucial contributions to (critical) conceptualizations of migration and displacement and the ways in which these are governed, discussed, and rendered less binary. At the same time, as do researchers in most other fields and disciplines in contemporary academia, many migration scholars continue to struggle with ambitions to integrate intersectional gender analysis, diversity and representation in their approach. How can we make gender central to migration studies? What intersectional theories and methods can inspire us to rethink dominant perspectives on migration politics and policies? How do we have conversations on gender in settings where social and cultural barriers impede access to different groups? The fourth session of GLOCAL’s lecture series on interdisciplinary migration studies addresses these and related questions. Drawing on her extensive work with different refugee and migration communities in Lebanon, Director of the Institute for Migration Studies at the School of Arts and Sciences at the Lebanese American University Jasmin Lilian Diab reflects on how intersections between gender, race, and mobility status can help us understand access and agency vis-à-vis livelihoods and services for people on the move. Anthropologist Tine Davids shares empirical insights on the ways in which understandings of parenthood, masculinity, and femininity affect experiences of mobility and displacement, integration and belonging, and mobilization and resistance.
