[URPE] Feminist Economics Call for Papers: Special Issue on Gender and International Migration

[Diana Strassmann]

FEMINIST ECONOMICS
CALL FOR PAPERS

A SPECIAL ISSUE ON GENDER AND INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION

Guest Editors
Lourdes Benería, Carmen Diana Deere, and Naila Kabeer

From the last decades of the 20th century to the 
present, globalization and the spread of 
neoliberal policies across countries have 
resulted in an unprecedented rise in the 
asymmetrical mobility between capital and labor. 
International migration has become a topic of 
intense political debate due to, among other 
factors, the tension between the increase in the 
numbers of international migrants and the 
obstacles faced by them to enter and settle where 
they choose to work and live. These tensions have 
raised important issues - economic, social, 
cultural, and political - that require a gender 
perspective.

This special issue of Feminist Economics intends 
to motivate both research and action, generating 
a discussion on the ways in which gender is an 
important dimension from which general and 
specific migration issues can be analyzed. We 
expect theoretical contributions as well as 
empirical analyses. The following themes are of 
particular interest:

* Rethinking theory on labor and capital mobility

* Periodization of migration and its feminization processess

* The care economy, women, and migration

* The globalization of reproduction and transnational mothering

* What happens to the children left behind?

* Remittances and development: the role of women

* Migration and "the nomad worker"

* Poverty and migration

* The challenges of social protection for migrant workers

* Internal versus international migration

* Engendering national/regional immigration policy and political debates

Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2009. Papers 
will be due in May 2010. Please direct queries 
and abstracts (500 words maximum) to Guest 
Editors Lourdes Benería (lb21 at cornell.edu) and 
Naila Kabeer (N.Kabeer at ids.ac.uk). Final papers 
(after approval of abstracts) should be submitted 
to Feminist Economics through the submissions 
website (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rfec). 
Questions about these procedures may be sent to 
feministeconomics at rice.edu, +1.713.348.4083 
(phone), or +1.713.348.5495 (fax).
Please note that the annual conference of the 
International Association for Feminist Economics, 
being held in Boston, June 26-28, 2009, will have 
gender and migration as one of its themes. To 
submit a paper for the conference, go to 
http://www.iaffe.org.