Gender and Migration:Feminist Interventions

Palmary, Ingrid; Burman, Erica; Chantler, Khatidja; Kiguwa, Peace

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“…Anna Carastathis, Natalie Kouri-Towe, Gada Mahrouse, and Leila Whitley argue that "intersectional research has consistently shown that experiences of migration and displacement differ significantly, depending on how people are positioned in hierarchies of gender, race, class, age, religion, and sexuality" (Carastathis et al 2018, 6). An intersectional framework is urgent to move beyond decontextualized, essentialized, and naturalized understandings of individuals and groups like migrants as a research category (Palmary et al 2010). Furthermore, the grassroots #BlackLivesMatter network, which gained momentum as a global human rights movement after the horrific police killing of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, should inform the agenda of our media and migration scholarship.…”

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Media, Migration, and Nationalism: Introduction to the Special Collection

Hirata

Leurs

2020

Global Perspectives

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This introduction contextualizes thirteen papers included in the Global Perspectives Media and Communication special collection examining the interrelationships between media, migration, and nationalism. This collaborative project was initiated during the Media, Migration and the Rise of Nationalism seminar held in Tokyo in 2018. The seminar was organized around the themes of cosmopolitanism, migration control, transnationalism, and contact zones. This selection covers and brings together long-standing and unresolved debates, which will allow media and migration researchers to engage in a multiperspectival reconsideration of how politics, mobility, and mediation intersect and co-shape each other. In this article, we first position ourselves in relevant debates by charting implications and shared characteristics underlying the recent economic crisis, climate crisis, refugee crisis, and COVID-19 crisis. Section 1 of the article focuses on cosmopolitanism. This thorny scholarly debate is captured by the artist Takashi Tanihata in the works A Letter That Isn’t Read I and II. As we discuss, the artworks depict an endless loop of (mis)communicating goats, which represent the possibilities and implications of mediated solidarity and polarization. The special collection features three articles that further nuance the heated debates on the politics of representation and mediation in relation to cosmopolitanism. Section 2 of this article is thematized with a painting by the artist XX titled The Scents on the Borders, which depicts perfume bottles and their scents encountering each other. The work, as we argue, refers to the complex, evolving relationships between border-crossing subjects and technologies of migration management and control. A latest development shows how tech-driven surveillance experiments tap into sensing technologies including those related to the sense of smell to secure borders. The section consists of four articles that demonstrate how the politics of material and symbolic bordering proliferates outside and inside nation-state boundaries. Section 3 takes inspiration from an artwork titled The Vision (Reportage), by Motoi Hirata, which features a violet sea snail as a motif to represent migrants and diaspora groups in terms of transnational connectivity. The section includes three articles that analyze the workings and lived experiences of connectivity and transnationalism across nation-state borders. In section 4 of this article, we take cues from Satsuki Hinokimoto’s abstract painting The Spread and link its deployment of isolated and interacting colored concentric circles to the evocative scholarly concept of the cultural contact zone. This section of the issue consists of three articles that focus on migrant encounters with difference and the politics of integration in various urban settings across the world. Finally, in our conclusion, we advocate for media and migration researchers to take up the critical concept of intersectionality to better acknowledge the internal heterogeneity of migrant communities alongside the similarities and differences among migrant communities in tandem with various interacting axes of agential identification and structural forms of oppression.

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Media, Migration, and Nationalism: Introduction to the Special Collection

Hirata

Leurs

2020

Global Perspectives

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“…Similar to other marginalized population groups, all of the women in this project choose to remain anonymous due to fears of retaliation, further abuse or community stigma. Their visual and narrative stories, then, serve as symbols of the dialectical challenges of living in the margins -the ongoing negotiation of wanting to be seen and heard yet also needing certain degrees of invisibility (Kihato, 2013;Palmary et al, 2010;Vearey, 2010).…”

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“…Over the past decade, feminist scholars across the globe have sought to provide new approaches and theoretical frameworks that challenge traditional theories portraying migrants solely through conventional economistic models (e.g., Kiwanuka, 2018;Palmary, Burman, Chantler & Kiguwa, 2010). Feminists have, for example, highlighted, the ways gender intersects with race, class, and identity to illuminate the vastness of women's experiences in the migration process, including how even women "left behind" are active agents of social change (Hiralal, 2018).…”

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A Creative Storytelling Project with Women Migrants in Johannesburg, South Africa (Dispatch)

Walker

Oliveira²

2020

SSJ

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“…It has been observed that migration studies have often displayed an over-emphasis on male migrants. Hence, there has been a growing and arguably flourishing interest in gender and female migration (Donato and Gabaccia, 2015;Palmary, Burman, Chantler, Kighuwa, 2010). Among many aspects, it has been shown that geographical displacement often has a powerful impact on gender roles (Espin, 1999), potentially having a liberating or constraining effect on many women.…”

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Migrating Towards Growth and Oblivion? A Contextual Account of the Lives and Work of Spanish-Mexican Composers María Teresa Prieto and Emiliana de Zubeldía

Chibici-Revneanu

2020

Rev. interdiscip. estud. género col. Méx.

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Este artículo se centra en la vida y obra de las compositoras hispano-mexicanas del siglo XX María Teresa Prieto y Emiliana de Zubeldía, a partir de una metodología interdisciplinaria que reúne aspectos de musicología feminista, género y migración, así como de estudios culturales. El objetivo es analizar sus biografías en el contexto de la escasa visibilidad de las mujeres en la representación de la diáspora y el discurso musical. El texto muestra cómo el desplazamiento geográfico contribuyó a su desarrollo creativo y a su carrera, mediante el acceso a redes significantes, procesos enriquecedores de transferencia cultural, su involucramiento en afirmaciones rivales de identidad nacional/regional y su liberación de normas de género (musical) restrictivas. Sin embargo, las ventajas contextuales que tuvieron demostraron ser insuficientes frente a las grandes estructuras discriminatorias de género en la esfera musical que generalmente han truncado las trayectorias femeninas mediante el olvido.

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Gender and Migration:Feminist Interventions

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Media, Migration, and Nationalism: Introduction to the Special Collection

Media, Migration, and Nationalism: Introduction to the Special Collection

A Creative Storytelling Project with Women Migrants in Johannesburg, South Africa (Dispatch)

Migrating Towards Growth and Oblivion? A Contextual Account of the Lives and Work of Spanish-Mexican Composers María Teresa Prieto and Emiliana de Zubeldía

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