May 3, 2019 – İstanbul
“Migration Research in Turkey from Gender Perspective” workshop will be organized with the partnership of Sabancı University Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence and Association for Migration Research (GAR).
May 3, 2019 – İstanbul
“Migration Research in Turkey from Gender Perspective” workshop will be organized with the partnership of Sabancı University Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence and Association for Migration Research (GAR). The main objective of the workshop is to get familiar with the research conducted on gender and migration in Turkey; relating and connecting various research projects with each other; and providing a platform in which gender and migration is discussed not only as a research agenda but also for elaborating on the needs and priorities which will help to raise public awareness on the subject.
Workshop themes include but not limited to:
- Gender roles and migratory experiences of male, female, and LGBTI+ refugees.
- Gender in the context of economic migration, forced migration, and other migratory experiences
- Domestic work, care labor, and migration
- Sexual and gender-based violence and human smuggling
- Sexuality- and/or marriage-based migrations and changing forms of privacy
- Transnational networks, diaspora, and gender
- City, migration, gender and solidarity networks/places
- Migrants’ access to health care services and gender
- Migration policies, programs, and gender
- Feminist methodologies/epistemologies and ethics in migration studies
The workshop will be held in Turkish.
