Gender and Migration Symposium

A satellite event of the successful Migration, Refugees and Statelessness Interdisciplinary Conference, the Gender and Migration Symposium brings together two of Melbourne Social Equity Institute’s research priority areas: gender equity and migration and mobility.

Convened by Associate Professor Karen Block, the event will feature presentations by five early career researchers. The first group of papers focuses on the gendered harms of bordering processes and women’s agency at the intersections of gendered violence and precarious migration status.

Following a short break, our second group of speakers will discuss the gendered risks associated with women’s labour migration and discrimination and ‘othering’ experienced by refugee women entrepreneurs. The Symposium will end with reflections from Melbourne Social Equity Institute's Gender Equity research program leads,  Professor Kylie Smith and Associate Professor Victor Sojo Monzon.

Visit the Melbourne Social Equity Institute website to read the speakers' abstracts and biographies

Speakers

• Ana Borges Jelinic, “In the middle… waiting for a future” – time and waiting in partner migration and family violence in Australia
  
• Samantha O’Donnell, Punishable victims: broadening understandings of punitiveness to capture women's experiences of family violence and precarity
• Sana Ashraf, Silence behind the locked doors: a qualitative study on domestic violence experiences of Pakistani immigrant women in Australia
• Eyram Ivy Sedzro, Weighing the risk: risk perception of Ghanaian female migrants to the Gulf states
• Saltanat Kamenova, Refugee women entrepreneurs: unpacking discourse of othering and subordination