Principle and practice: GAATW-IS reflections on feminist participatory action research (original) (raw)

Bibliography of Research-Based Literature on Human Trafficking: 2008-2014

Preparation of bibliographies is an arduous and often thankless task, but it can also be rewarding and can lead to new discoveries of unknown research and exciting authors. At the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) we have undertaken preparation of bibliographies and analyses of empirical research on human trafficking several times. The bibliography in front of you is our latest attempt to compile research-based articles, reports, and books on various aspects of trafficking of persons-adults and children-across international borders. We hope that you will find it useful in designing and conducting your own empirical studies on human trafficking.

Gendered Technologies of Power: Experiencing and Unmaking Borderscapes in South Asia

Berkeley Planning Journal, 2018

Across South Asia, women migrate for employment within their home countries , within the region, and to more distant destination countries. Despite regular and ongoing transit, they are subject to restrictions on their mobility. How do migrant women workers confront and resist these restrictions? This question calls for an analytical approach that considers both the nature of the restrictive forces they confront and the resistance strategies they bring to bear. Scholarship on governmentality traces how nation states, as sovereigns , deploy a dual system of thought and management to exert control over populations and the nations they inhabit. Gendered migration governance at the legal and policy level maps one of many forces that restrict women's mobility across the region. Within South Asia, social control over women is informed by not only legal, but also political, cultural, and ideological discourses that are anchored in patriarchal social systems. Women workers migrate through varied "borderscapes," landscapes traversed by competing discourses and practices that seek to define parameters of mobility (Rajaram and Grundy-Warr 2007). Based on fieldwork conducted between October 2015 and July 2016, this paper considers how local, national, and regional networks of migrant women in South Asia circumvent restrictive policies and resist patriarchal binaries. Examining their modes of resistance, this study lends critical insight into how gendered technologies of power are experienced and unmade.