Gender, Migration and Citizenship
Convened by Dr Bridget Anderson
The analysis of gender and migration has moved beyond the charting of women's specific migration patterns and experiences. Feminist theory has contributed to recognition of borders of sites of social (re)-production, of immigration staus, of good and bad women, of nationhood, of work, of families and other, deeply gendered categories.
Thursdays 14.00 to 15.30
Seminar Room, Institute of Human Sciences, Pauling Centre, 58a Banbury Road.
Next Seminar
19th November
Migration, Home and Belonging: Lessons from a Personal Journey
Professor Barbara Einhorn, Department of Sociology, University of Sussex
Abstract
Notions of ‘home’ and the desire to belong represent fundamental human needs. They constitute the basis of social relations and social cohesion. Decisions about who is an ‘insider’, and conversely, who remains an ‘outsider’ or stranger to the community, underly both the theories and the practices of citizenship. The concept of citizenship, in political theory, in political ideologies, and in religious and nationalist discourses, defines who can become a full political subject, who possesses both the formal rights to membership of the community, and the capacity to access and indeed exercise those rights. This paper explores some of the markers of difference that exclude individuals and groups of people from full agency, creating barriers to the achievement of socially just societies.
Biography
Professor Barbara Einhorn’s research concerns issues of gender, citizenship, and civil society; migration and notions of ‘home’ and belonging; nation and identity; religion, gender, and conflict. She is best known for her work on gender and citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe. Publications include Cinderella Goes to Market: Citizenship, Gender and Women’s Movements in East Central Europe (1993); Citizenship in an Enlarging Europe: From Dream to Awakening (2006; 2nd edition forthcoming 2010); Questioning the Secular: Religion, Gender, Politics, Special Issue of the European Journal of Women’s Studies, 15(3) 2008; and (co-authored with Mary Evans) Religion, Gender, Politics: Questioning the Secular (2011 forthcoming).
Full Series
Where possible, papers will be made available in due course.
15th October
Women, migration and contemporary politics of belonging
Professor Nira Yuval-Davis, University of East London
22nd October
Sex and the Regulation of Belonging. Dutch Family Migration Policies in the Context of Changing Family Norms
Dr Sarah Van Walsum, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
29th October
Frozen River (2008)
Film Screening
5th November
Subaltern Mobilities: a post (anti)trafficking perspective. [Change of paper]
Dr Nick Mai, London Metropolitan University
12th November
Empty Shadows? Feminism and the Politics of Vulnerability
Dr Laura Brace, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester
19th November
Migration, Home and Belonging: Lessons from a Personal Journey
Professor Barbara Einhorn, Department of Sociology, University of Sussex
26th November
Sex on the Move: Gender, Subjectivity and Differential Inclusion
Dr Rutvica Andrijasevic, Politics and International Studies, Open University
3rd December
There's a Spirit that Transcends the Border: Faith in the U.S. Immigrant Rights Movement
Professor Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Department of Sociology, University of Southern California
For more details on previous Seminar Series click here