Women of the Kachin Conflict: Trafficking and Militarized Femininity on the Burma-China Border

Kamler, Erin M.

doi:10.1080/23322705.2015.1014664

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“…Though they may reference ethnic minorities, none offers an intersectional approach to thinking about gender and ethnicity in Myanmar. Newly emerging work on women's ethnic organisations in exile (E. Olivius, personal communication, 1 March 2017), female combatants (Kamler 2015), and women's exclusion from the peace process (Hedstrom 2014) is beginning to fill this gap. Still, we are left with more questions than answers concerning ethnic minority women and their organisations in the peace process and beyond in Myanmar.…”

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Ethnic Minority Women, Diversity, and Informal Participation in Peacebuilding in Myanmar

Pepper¹

2018

Journal of Peacebuilding & Development

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Myanmar is in the midst of a complex peace process following nearly 70 years of civil conflict that has left the country severely underdeveloped. Despite the presence of influential women's organisations that attend to everyday needs as well as larger political projects, women are not well represented in the peace process. This article uses qualitative data to examine the influence that women do have on the peace process, albeit informally. Findings show that although women are not making it into peace negotiations in Myanmar, nevertheless they are key players in peacebuilding because of their civil society activism, organised through ethnic women's organisations, which places them around the table, if not at the table. The paper concludes that women's activism does have an effect on peacebuilding and that a shift in perspective is required to recognise their contributions.

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Ethnic Minority Women, Diversity, and Informal Participation in Peacebuilding in Myanmar

Pepper¹

2018

Journal of Peacebuilding & Development

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“…The literature around human trafficking highlights the gendered vulnerabilities people face when they occupy, are fleeing from, and are transiting through conflict-affected areas, including in borderlands like Myanmar-China and Eritrea-Sudan. 41 Similarly to these cases, there are particularly gendered implications of human trafficking in the context of the Venezuela-Colombian border. The border effect facilitates human trafficking due to the way it renders this crime invisible and conceals the violence associated with it.…”

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Gendering the border effect: the double impact of Colombian insecurity and the Venezuelan refugee crisis

Zulver

Idler

2020

Third World Quarterly

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In the Colombian-Venezuelan borderlands, the reconfiguration of armed group presence and mass migration create and reinforce conditions of high violence and risk. Against this backdrop, we ask: What are the gendered security implications of the double crisis in the borderlands? Based on fieldwork in four regions along the border, this article argues that the border effect is gendered; the very factors that coalesce to produce this effect exacerbate existing gendered power dynamics, particularly as these relate to gender-based violence. Accordingly, this article demonstrates the specific ways in which the borderas a facilitator, deterrent, magnet, and/or disguisereinforces experiences of gendered insecurity in this region. The article finishes by outlining the implications for other international borderland settings.

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Myanmar

O’Brien¹

2022

International Conflict and Security Law

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Women of the Kachin Conflict: Trafficking and Militarized Femininity on the Burma-China Border

Cited by 10 publications

References 9 publications

Ethnic Minority Women, Diversity, and Informal Participation in Peacebuilding in Myanmar

Ethnic Minority Women, Diversity, and Informal Participation in Peacebuilding in Myanmar

Gendering the border effect: the double impact of Colombian insecurity and the Venezuelan refugee crisis

Myanmar

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