Intersectional Migration Studies: Bodies, Genders, Sexualities, 7.5 credits

Required readings: Abdou, L (2017). Gender nationalism: The new (old) politics of belonging. Austrian Journal of Political Science, 46(1): 83–88. Bastia, T. (2014). Intersectionality, migration and development. Progress in Development Studies, 14(3): 237–248. Bose, B. (2005). Postcolonial feminisms: Nation, gender and sexualities in India. Feminist Theory, 1: 87–97. Brown, T. (2011). The Intersection and Accumulation of Racial and Gender Inequality: Black Women’s Wealth Trajectories. The Review of Black Political Economy, 39(2): 239-258. Butler, J. (2008). Sexual politics, torture, and secular time. British Journal of Sociology, 59(1): 1-23. Carby, H. (1982). White Woman Listen! Black Feminism and the Boundaries of Sisterhood. In: Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, The Empire Strikes Back: Race and Racism in Seventies Britain. London: Hutchinson, pp. 212–235. Chan, K. W. (2010). The Global Financial Crisis and Migrant Workers in China: ‘There is No Future as a Labourer; Returning to the Village has No Meaning’. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 34(3): 659-677. Chávez, K. (2010). Border (In)Securities: Normative and Differential Belonging in LGBTQ and Immigrant Rights Discourse. Communication & Critical/Cultural Studies, 7(2): 136–155. Collins, P. Hill (2000). Black Feminist Epistemology. In: Collins, P. Hill Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, New York: Routledge, pp. 251–257. Crenshaw, K. (1991). Mapping the margins: Intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of color. Stanford Law Review, 43: 1241–99. Dooling, W. (2005). The Making of a Colonial Elite: Property, Family and Landed Stability in the Cape Colony, c.1750–1834. Journal of Southern African Studies, 31(1): 147-162. Farris, S. R. (2012). Femonationalism and the ”Regular” Army of Labor Called Migrant Women. History of the Present, 2(2), 184–199. Gimenez, M. (2001). Marxism and Class, Gender and Race: Rethinking the Trilogy, Race, Gender & Class, 8(2): 23–33. Available at: http://www.colorado.edu/Sociology/gimenez/work/cgr.html Hossain, A. (2017). The paradox of recognition: hirja, third gender and sexual rights in Bangladesh. Culture, Health and Sexuality, DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2017.1317831 Lan, P.-C. (2011). White Privilege, Language Capital and Cultural Ghettoisation: Western High-Skilled Migrants in Taiwan. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 37(10): 1669–1693. Lee, J. and M. Zhou (2017). Why class matters less for Asian-American academic achievement. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 43(14): 2316-2330. Lewis, R. and Mills, S. (2005). Introduction. In Lewis, R. (ed.) Feminist Postcolonial Theory: A Reader, Routledge, pp. 1–22. Lorde, A. (2007) [1980]. Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference. In Sister outsider: essays and speeches. Berkeley: Crossing Press, pp. 114–123. (Available at LISAM) Luibhéid, E. (2004). Hetronormativity and Immigration Scholarship: A Call for Change. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 10(2): 227-235. Lutz, H. (2010). Gender in the Migratory Process. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 36(10): 1647–1663. Manalansan, M. (2006). Queer Intersections: Sexuality and Gender in Migration Studies. International Migration Review, 40(1): 224–49. McClintock, A. (1995). No Longer in a Future Heaven: Nationalism, Gender and Race. In Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest. New York: Routledge, pp. 352–389. McKay, S. C. (2007). Filipino Sea Men: Constructing Masculinities in an Ethnic Labour Niche. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 33(4): 617-633. Mohanty, C. (1984). Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses, Boundary, 2 (12/13): 333–358. Mulinari, D. (2007). Women friendly? Understanding gendered racism in Sweden. In Melby, K., Ravn, A. and Carlsson Wetterberg, C. (eds.), Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia: the limits of political ambition?. Bristol: Policy, pp. 167–182. (Available at LISAM). Parrenas, R. S. (2000). Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers and the International Division of Reproductive Labor. Gender and Society, 14(4): 560-580. Puar, J. (2013). Homonationalism As Assemblage: Viral Travels, Affective Sexualities. Jindal Global Law Review, 4(2): 23–43. Strand, S. (2014). Ethnicity, gender, social class and achievement gaps at age 16: intersectionality and ‘getting it’ for the white working class. Research Papers in Education, 29(2): 131-171. Skeggs, B. (2005). The Making of Class and Gender through Visualizing Moral Subject Formation. Sociology, 39(5): 965–82. Scott, J.W. (1988). Gender and the Politics of History. New York: Columbia University Press. Tinsman, H. (2008). A Paradigm of Our Own: Joan Scott in Latin American History, The American Historical Review, 113(5): 1357-1374. Wallerstein, I. (1991). Class Conflict in the Capitalist World-Economy, In Balibar, E. and Wallerstein, I. (eds.). Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities. London: Verso. Van Hear, N. (2014). Reconsidering Migration and Class. IMR, 48(S1): S100–S121. Weiss, A. (2005). The Transnationalization of Social Inequality: Conceptualizing Social Positions on a World Scale. Current Sociology, 53(4): 707-728. Wright, E. O. (2009). Understanding Class: Towards an Integrated Analytical Approach. New Left Review, 60: 101-16. Wong, Y. (2004). When East Meets West: Nation, Colony, and Hong Kong Women’s Subjectivities in Gender and China Development, Modern China, 30(2): 259–292. Yuval-Davis (1997). Gender & Nation. London: SAGE, Chapter 2: Theorizing Gender and Nation, pp. 26–38. (Avilable at LISAM). Suggested readings: Ahlstedt, S. (2016). The Feeling of Migration: Narratives of Queer Intimacies and Partner Migration. Linköping: Linköping University. Ahmed, L. (2011). The quiet revolution: the veil's resurgence, from the Middle East to America. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. Collins, P. Hill (1998). It’s All in the Family: Intersections of Gender, Race and Nation. Hypatia, 13(3): 62–82. Combahee River Collective (1977). A Black Feminist Statement, Available online: http://historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/combrivercoll.html Lewis, R. (2014). ”Gay? Prove It!”: The Politics of Queer Anti-Deportation Activism. Sexualities, 17 (8): 958–975. Lugones, M. (2007). Heterosexualism and the Colonial/ Modern Gender System. Hypatia, 22(1): 186–209. McCall, L. (2005). The Complexity of Intersectionality. Signs, 30(3): 1771–1800. Mohanty, C. (2003). Under Western Eyes’ Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles. Signs, 28(2): 499–535. Silvey, R. (2004). Power, Difference and Mobility: Feminist Advances. Progress In Human Geography, 28(4): 490–506. Truth, S. (1851). Ain’t I a Woman? Available online: https://www.nps.gov/wori/learn/historyculture/sojourner-truth.htm Vogel, K. (2009). The Mother, the Daughter and the Cow: Venezuelan Transformistas’ Migration to Europe. Mobilities, 4(3): 367–387.