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Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS)

Module Title: Gender and Forced Migration 

Module Leader: Dr Farhana Rahman 

Module Description:  

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.