Gender and Forced Migration - Dr Farhana Rahman
Interdisciplinary in nature, this course will draw on literature in refugee and forced migration studies, gender studies, anthropology, and political science to deepen students’ understanding of how forced migration is a gendered process with significant gender implications. The course will explore feminist and gendered approaches to studying forced migration, and touch on several key topics, including: gendered causes of conflict and displacement; how forced migration affects gender identities, roles, and relations (including masculinities/femininities); gender and sexual-based violence before, during, and after forced migration; how power differentials are embedded within the displacement process; the agency of refugees and heterogeneity of lived experiences of displacement; and the policy implications of gendered analyses of forced migration, amongst others.