Gender, Agency, and Power in Contexts of Migration and Conflict

Abstract

This panel discusses gender, agency and power in the context of migration and conflict. The papers investigate various contexts and take various theoretical and methodological perspectives. The papers address the following topics: choices migrant women make between returning and settling permanently and how gender, ethnicity and socio-economic factors shape these decisions; how gendered ideas of vulnerability shape parliamentary debates about asylum and asylum seekers; and how activist in European border areas who provide basic services and social and political support perform emotional labor in ways in which forms of care, charity and feminism intersect. The papers also address how misyar (visiting) marriage among migrant and refugee communities in Istanbul and how gendered, legal and moral boundaries are negotiated within intersecting structures of migration, precocity and power; and how the intersectional identities of woman combatants form their experiences of war.

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Constructing Vulnerability: The Refugee ‘Other’ as Victim and Threat in UK Parliamentary Debates	View Paper Details
Gendering National Liberation: The case of Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) Women Fighters	View Paper Details
Mothers, nuns, and radical care: Navigating gender dynamics in solidarity activism at European borders	View Paper Details
Unveiling Kyriarchy: Misyar Marriage in Post-Migration Istanbul	View Paper Details