Gender and Forced Displacement: New Perspectives on International Migration
A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760). This special issue belongs to the section "International Migration".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 711
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
There are over 70 million people worldwide who have been forcibly displaced from their homes. Refugees, asylum seekers, stateless populations, and those who have been internally displaced all comprise those who are recognized as forcibly displaced. Millions more are turned away at international borders, languish in detention centers, and face deportation. Women migrants face challenges during displacement that include gender-based violence, family separation, health complications, and economic responsibilities. This Special Issue examines new perspectives on international migration by examining how gender and forced displacement is conceptualized.
Studies of international migration tend to categorize migrants as either voluntary or forced. When migrants seek better economic conditions, they are voluntary, while those who abandon their homes because of civil war and violence are forced. Nevertheless, the reality for most migrants is that migration is rarely simply voluntary or forced. The legal and scholarly boundary between voluntary and forced migrants is artificial in that it is an imposed border lending the impression that economic and political migrants are mutually exclusive groups. We seek submissions of empirically based research that offer new perspectives on gender and forced displacement.
The papers in this issue address how forced displacement is a gendered process that structures international migration. Questions to consider are: How has gender and forced displacement been conceptualized? What does it mean to be a forced migrant? How does the distinction between forced and voluntary migration fail to capture the complex reality for many migrants, especially women?
Dr. Connie Oxford
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Forced displacement
- Refugees
- Asylum seekers
- Internal displacement
- Stateless populations
- Women migrants
- Gender and migration
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