Accepted Panels

 Rather than looking at gender as an individual status or attribute, we analyze gender as a system of power relations that permeates every aspect of migraion experiecne. It is imperative to take up gender both as a category of analysis and as a means to expand our theoretical understanding of migration. How might migration scholars move past conceptualizing gender as a binary variable measuring an individual’s status to analyzing gender as a system of power relations? This panel will debate and unpack studies, reflections and imageries that focus on women who migrate in various capacities and find themselves moving amidst circulation of ideas, cultural elements, social practices, and vulnerabilities. We welcome papers that build a gender-specific, ethnographic, inter-sectoral, interdisciplinary and nuanced perspective on women on the move, feminist- identities and worldviews- on climate justice, human rights and wellbeing which analyze and compare different struggles of participation, representation, integration, resistance, and resilience. Traditional ‘masculine’ definition of leadership, migration and power as compared to ‘feminine discourses acquaint us with achieving an inclusive and just Wolrd and bringing in values of  sensitivity, gentleness and empathy. Traditional ‘masculine’ definition of leadership and power – which prioritises traits like confidence, authority, assertion and emotional detachment from issues – to a definition which elevates marks of ‘femininity’. A feminist perspective would allow researchers to engender and rethink debates on home-host countries/cultures; group and community dynamics; and also, indicvidual units such as family from inter-subjective as well as gendered perspectives. .