Migrant Women in Distress and the Intersectionality of Law and Jurisprudence
Migrant Women in Distress and the Intersectionality of Law and Jurisprudence
Abstract Submissions Closed
RC12 Sociology of Law (host committee)
Language: English, French and Spanish
The session will focus on the following:
- Gender in migration processes from a law and society perspective with an empirical focus,
- An analysis of feminist jurisprudence over migration within the intersectionality of these.
- An analysis of the autonomous and dependent immigration of women to countries abroad, as in the case of immigration to the Silicon Valley, domestic help in the Middle East; the nursing care professionals and policies that shape gender, race, migration, and their marginality within the perspectives of law and judiciary.
- Legal policy in the context of the migrant women’s struggle to survive as in the case of migrant women/indentured women in South Africa.
- Political compulsions that overlay the scarf/head dress practices of Islamic dress as religious practice of the migrant women’s public domain within traditionalism and modernity, and also looking as the other.
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