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Gender, Violence and Migration
Gender, Violence and Migration
Abstract Submissions Closed
Wednesday, 24 February 2021: 09:00-10:30
Location:
RC32 Women, Gender and Society (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
Gender-based and intersectional violence, defined in structural and / or interpersonal terms, is often part of the migration process and experience. In structural terms it may be the outcome of absence, “neutrality”, misinterpretation or inadequate enforcement of law, and of state / political and social / community practices at local, national and international levels. Such legal and socio-political contexts create enabling environments or even directly translate into gender -based violence at the interpersonal level. Violence may be the cause, aggravating factor or consequence of migration (and in particular displacement / forced migration), enabled by or contributing to precarious statuses; or it may emerge or get reinforced post migration and during the settlement process. Violence is fundamentally gendered, either in its root origins, forms or consequences and often in terms of all of these dimensions. It is also understood as intersectional, i.e. affecting differently and being impacted by multiple, interacting social memberships and identities beyond gender.
This session invites empirical analyses and theoretical reflections of diverse forms of violence in various international contexts.
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