Gender and immigration

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

Gender is a key intervening variable in migration politics and policies. This panel considers a variety of migration processes from a gendered perspective that affect both female and male migrants. Broadly, the panel addresses the impact of gender rights upon migratory opportunities, in particular whether more gender protective societies attract more female immigration. It also examines the relationship between humanitarian migration and gender by looking at the Jordan Compact as a response to the Syrian humanitarian crisis and its impact upon female participation rates. Turning to labour migration, the panel considers two areas marked by strong sectoral gender segregation: the rights of care workers in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan – many of whom are female – and the labour market exploitation of mainly male military contractors hired by the US government.

Sub Unit

• Division 52: Migration & Citizenship

Individual Presentations

• Care Citizenship? Migrant Care Worker Policies in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan - Yi-Chun Chien, National Chengchi University

• Erasing Vulnerability: Migrant Men, Precarity, & the Study of Human Trafficking - Laura A. Hebert, Occidental College

• Gender Rights and Global Migration - David Leblang, University of Virginia; Dawn L. Teele, Johns Hopkins University

Chair

• Jeannette Money University of California, Davis

Discussant

• Noora Anwar Lori Boston University