Gendered Violence, Abuse and Exploitation in the Shadow of Bordering Regimes and Border Control
Gendered Violence, Abuse and Exploitation in the Shadow of Bordering Regimes and Border Control
Monday, 7 July 2025: 19:00-20:30
Location: FSE014 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
WG11 Violence and Society (host committee) Language: English
Over the last decade, the lens that has been utilised to understand gendered violence has expanded beyond a focus on the interpersonal, family and community dynamics to incorporate the role of intersecting social relations of power based on gender, race, ethnicity, class, (dis)ability, sexuality and citizenship in enhancing vulnerability for particular categories of women. However, we are still in the early stages of exploring the ways in which structural violence of migration and migration policies, practices of migration control and bordering regimes enable and sustain gendered violence in national contexts and across transnational spaces. Conducive contexts for such violence include hostile environment created towards migrants in different parts of the world and bordering processes, policies and practices that are weaponised by perpetrators in countries of destination and origin, with impunity. We want to bring together a panel to consider these themes that have hitherto been explored within distinct scholarships related to criminology and crimmigration, migration studies and sociology of violence. Beyond a focus on the particular actions of perpetrators and its effects upon women and girls with precarious citizenship or non-citizenship, we are keen to receive submissions which also explore how bordering practices construct precarity and enhance vulnerability in diverse contexts. We welcome contributions that can help us understand the nature and forms of gendered violence, abuse and exploitation that occurs in the shadow of bordering regimes, the nature of resistance to such violence, and the possibilities of accountability in relation to this violence.
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