Women, migration and refuges: violence and vulnerabilities
Seminar 2329
Coordination: Elaini Silva (FLACSO Brazil)
Home: 25 / 04 / 2023 | Registration: 19/12/2022 al 24/04/2023
Workload: 12 weeks – 90 hours.
This seminar seeks to promote an analysis not only of how gender norms define migratory movements, but also of the role of the State in this relationship, evidencing forms of exclusion, submissiveness or marginalization of women and girls, based on an interdisciplinary analysis that will approximate the studies in related areas. legal sociology, social sciences and international relations.
According to the latest report of the International Organization for Migration, less than 4% of the world's migrant population, or those who live in a state other than their nationality. Despite the number apparently being reduced compared to the population that remains within its borders or the number of internally displaced persons (three times higher), it is observed that in recent decades the proportion of international migrants has grown consistently, beginning to falter at the same time in a crisis.
The participation of women and girls in migratory flows has remained relevant, varying, on average, from 49% to 51% of the total number of people, but the causes and conditions of women in the migratory movement are diverse. Their participation in migration is sometimes associated with women's social roles, their autonomy to make decisions, or access to resources and social stratification at the origin, to gender inequality in case it is a factor that shapes migratory flows. Violence itself can be a driving force of the movement, as happens in countries with high rates of feminicides and homicides.
To address the relationship between gender, State and migration norms, the classrooms of this seminar are organized in three groups.
First, it will try to carry out a critical review of theoretical concepts, taking into consideration the challenges that they are posed to explain realities from a gender perspective. In the case of questioning two different statutes of women who cross borders and their implications for protection against different forms of violence committed by the State by private individuals; and the limit of the very idea of universal human rights guaranteed by States that are organized from the idea of a statue sovereignty in a system still marked by cultural colonialism.
The second section will include classrooms that will address the rules of political organization of States and the entry permit of foreigners, and those political communities can lead to the exclusion of women who cross borders from any type of protection. At this time, cases of States that condition the right to transmit their nationality to gender positions will be discussed, allowing cases of statelessness of children or two children of their nationalities abroad; How seen policies can create subcategories of strangers and generate not the exclusion or at least the marginalization of women; and how the condition of irregular permanence is associated in various countries with greater vulnerability of migrant women, due to the fact that they are denied permission or due to the receipt of deportation.
Finally, the third eixo will include classrooms that will show how the state's bodies are tolerating or reproducing direct gender violence or the marginalization of women. countries where the incidence of feminicides is high for others; no profile of care workers who migrate to other countries in search of work and sustenance for their families; and the dynamics of international trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploration.
Each classroom will seek to highlight the mechanisms of reproduction of gender violence against women who cross borders, identify policies that eventually exist to protect these mechanisms and assess the limits and possibilities of these.
- Refugees, asylum seekers, economic migrants, tourists, illegal immigrants: the different statutes of migrant women
- An aporia between universal human rights, state sovereignty and reconfirmation of the autonomy of women in the South
- Patriarchal state and exclusion of women: nationality attribution regimes differentiated by gender and statelessness
- Visa granting policies based on gender questões and marginalization of strangers
- Domestic violence against immigrant women in irregular situations
- Migration, work and gender: the role of the State in raising flows of migrant workers
- Gender violence between the cause of escape and the basis for granting refuge
- International trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploration
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Frequently Asked Questions
The basic requirements for taking a seminar are:
- Availability of at least 4 hours per week to dedicate to the seminar course.
- Internet access.
- Reasonable handling of communication and computer tools.
- Language proficiency in the language in which the course will be taught. The official languages are Spanish and Portuguese.
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Discount for one payment until 17/04 |
In one payment after 17/04 |
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CM Plenos |
$75 |
$150 |
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CM Associates |
$95 |
$190 |
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No link |
$95 |
$190 |
