Importing Feminisms: Racialized Migrants and Anti-Violence Activism

Singh, Rashmee

doi:10.1093/sp/jxw005

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“…The socially reproductive practices that sustain people on a daily and generational basis can often constitute the invisible work of the productive sphere of paid service delivery (Katz, 2001; Martin, 2014). The imparting of cultural practices, identities and social values is a form of embodied community work – work that is highly gendered, often the domain of women and often not considered ‘work’ (Kershaw, 2010; Moya, 2005; Singh, 2016). Embodied work is often intangible and cannot be easily accounted for in terms of inputs and outputs.…”

Section: The Hidden Work Of Communitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Making Sharing Work: Migrant Community Groups and Informal/Formal Work

Farrugia

2019

Critical Sociology

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Migrant and refugee communities are at the forefront of highly feminised and precarious community sector work. Facing insecure labour contracts and contingent, competitive funding for activities, these communities routinely move between paid and unpaid work. Drawing on multi-sited and participatory ethnographic research and 30 semi-structured interviews with women of different African backgrounds living and working in western Sydney, this article explores the relationship between collective sharing practices and life as precarious workers. The sharing of material resources, information and support takes place beyond designated ‘workplaces’ and on a continuum of activity that moves between the formal and informal, public and private, productive and socially reproductive. This article uses a practice-based approach to foreground the social world of working migrant women. In doing so, it sheds light on the hidden, precarious work of an increasingly marketised community sector and the everyday and emergent ways that marginalised communities respond to precarious work under neoliberalism.

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Section: The Hidden Work Of Communitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These differences had social and economic implications. Along the spectrum of informal/formal, these women’s groups were performing much of the integrative functions of the state (Cooper, 2013; Singh, 2016).…”

Section: The Intangible and Tangible Work Of Communitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Making Sharing Work: Migrant Community Groups and Informal/Formal Work

Farrugia

2019

Critical Sociology

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“…This nexus includes formalized practices of border officials entering women's shelters or standing around the perimeter as part of the broader crackdown on migrant populations living without status (Abji, 2016;Villegas, 2015). It also includes legislation targeting genderbased violence introduced by the right-wing Conservative government, such as the "Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act" introduced in 2014, which combined new restrictions on immigration with changes to criminal and family law, thus mobilizing the issue of gender-based violence to advance a carceral crimmigration agenda (Abji et al, 2019;Singh, 2016). By bringing attention to this nexus in my re-reading of Lucía's experiences of detention and death, I thus extend crimmigration scholarship as well as recent critiques by feminist and critical race scholars.…”

Section: Advancing Feminist Intersectional Approaches: Centering the Survivorship Of Migrant Women Of Colourmentioning

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Punishing Survivors and Criminalizing Survivorship: A Feminist Intersectional Approach to Migrant Justice in the Crimmigration System

Abji¹

2020

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Scholars have identified crimmigration – or the criminalization of “irregular” migration in law – as a key issue affecting migrant access to justice in contemporary immigrant-receiving societies. Yet the gendered and racialized implications of crimmigration for diverse migrant populations remains underdeveloped in this literature. This study advances a feminist intersectional approach to crimmigration and migrant justice in Canada. I add to recent research showing how punitive immigration controls disproportionately affect racialized men from the global south, constituting what Golash-Boza and Hondagneu-Sotelo have called a “gendered racial removal program” (2013). In my study, I shift analytical attention to consider the effects of the contemporary crimmigration system on migrant women survivors of gender-based violence. While such cases constitute a small sub-group within a larger population of migrants in detention, nevertheless scholarly attention to this group can expose the multiple axes along which state power is enacted – an analytical strategy that foundational scholars like Crenshaw (1991) used to theorize “structural intersectionality” in the US. In focusing on crimmigration in the Canadian context, I draw attention to the growing nexus between migration, security, and gender-based violence that has emerged alongside other processes of crimmigration. I then provide a case analysis of the 2013 death while in custody of Lucía Dominga Vega Jiménez, an “undocumented” migrant woman from Mexico. My analysis illustrates how migrant women’s strategies to survive gender-based violence are re-cast as grounds for their detention and removal, constituting what I argue is a criminalization of survivorship.The research overall demonstrates the centrality of gendered and racialized structural violence in crimmigration processes by challenging more universalist approaches to migrant justice.

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