Gender and Migration

Catalog description

Migration is about the movement of people from one place to another. But this movement is not simple. Individuals do not experience spatial mobility in the same way. This course examines the variegated ways in which gender courses through the veins of migration processes and migrant lives, illuminating migration as a process that shapes gender while, simultaneously, is shaped by gender. Even as new formulations emerge to challenge previous notions about what being a “man” or a “woman” entail, offering ways to move beyond this binary, normative views about gender persist, embedding themselves within the politics of human mobility and moving through our deeply interdependent world.