Migration Gendr & Human Rights

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In this course, we examine the transnational dynamics of migration through the twin prism of gender and human rights. We first spend some time on contexts of war and economic upheaval as part of unequal North-South relations. Violence and impoverishment impact women and men differently and therefore impel multiple and distinct migratory processes. We interrogate these processes as always-and-already gendered, addressing the experiences of men and women both in the countries of origin and in the receiving countries, social formations that continue to be shaped by patriarchal practices. We ask the following questions: How do migratory patterns emerge out of gendered power relations within and outside of households? How does migration reshape these power relations? How do gendered migratory patterns relate to dynamics of racialization and class? We sharpen these questions by probing the differential human rights situation of men and women whose lives are touched by migration, both in the countries of origin and in the receiving countries. Offered: spring or fall.