Dear all,
Apologies for sending this message so late as our deadline is next
Wednesday!.
If you are working on gender and migration, please get in contact with
us even if you are not intending to submit an abstract with us for the
RGS-IBG. Tanjia and I together with Nicola Piper are thinking of editing
a special issue after the conference.
Best regards,
Marina
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RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2008
“Geographies that Matter”
London, UK, 27-29 August 2008
Call for Papers
Feminist geographies, gender relations and economic migration:
organisations, networks and strategies
Marina Prieto-Carron (Birkbeck College) and Tanja Bastia (University of
Manchester)
Global international migration trends have seen an increase in women’s
participation in economic migration since the 1970s. However, feminist
scholars have pointed out that many women migrants experience deskilling
and are only able to find work in badly paid, insecure and often
informal jobs. This panel seeks papers that will advances a comparative
analysis of gender relations in international migration for work and
help to better define migrants’ gains (and losses) – whether material or
symbolic, legal, cultural or social. The papers adopt an
intersectionality framework linking gender, race and ethnicity and build
on research conducted in different geographical regions to better
understand the role of social networks, organisations and the various
strategies adopted by economic migrants. Particular attention is paid
to migrants’ labour market insertion and the types of sectors migrants
participate. The panel aims to advance a broader feminist analysis of
what women gain from engaging in labour migration by covering political
organising, advocacy, labour market strategies as well as the more
intimate changes which take place as a result of migration thereby
linking feminist geographies from the global to the local, the private
and the public.
We look forward to receiving your abstracts by 20th February.
Please include the following information: name, institutional
affiliation, email address, abstract of max 200 words.
Marina Prieto-Carrón [log in to unmask]
Tanja Bastia [log in to unmask]
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Dr Marina Prieto-Carrón
Lecturer
Joint Director, MSc Development Studies
Birkbeck College
University of London
26 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DQ
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Visiting Fellow
School of Geographical Studies
University of Bristol
University Road, Bristol BS8 1SS
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