Gender and Migration

Ingrid Palmary is a senior researcher in the Forced Migration Studies Progamme at the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg. She has written on a range of topics including gender based violence in times of armed conflict, the gendered nature of displacement and the intersections of 'domestic' and 'political' violence.Peace Kiguwa lectures in Psychology and currently Gender and Human Rights at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.Erica Burman is Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies in Manchester Metropolitan University. Her most recent books Deconstructing Developmental Psychology (2008) and Developments: child, image, nation (2008) reflect these themes.Khatidja Chantler is a lecturer and researcher in Social Work at the University of Manchester. She is also a counsellor and supervisor and has worked in health and social care settings for over 25 years.

This is a theoretically rich exploration of gender and migration. Each chapter covers crucial issues, but the collection as a whole makes key interventions in understandings of policy and humanitarian issues. It is provocative and imaginative in its careful, scholarly and accessible treatment of issues frequently taken for granted by governments, international agencies and human rights activists. It deserves to become essential reading, not only in a variety of academic disciplines, but by those working in, and legislating about, migration as well as the wider public.

• Gender and migration: feminist interventionsPart I: Visibility and Vulnerability2. Gender, migration and anti-racist politics in the continued project of the nation - Alexandra Zavos3. The Problem of Trafficking - Chandré Gould4. Sex, choice and exploitation: reflections on anti-trafficking discourse - Ingrid PalmaryPart II: Asylum5. Barriers to Protection: Gender-Related Persecution and Asylum in South Africa - Julie Middleton6. Safe to Return? A Case Study of Domestic Violence, Pakistani Women, and the UK Asylum System - Sajida Ismail7. Women Seeking Asylum in the UK: Contesting Conventions - Khatidja Chantler8. Explicating the tactics of banal exclusion: a British example - Erica BurmanPart III: Depoliticizing migration9. Now you see me now you don't: methodologies and methods of the interstices - Caroline Wanjiku Kihato10. For Love or Survival: Migrant Women's Narratives of Survival and Intimate Partner Violence in Johannesburg - Monica Kiwanuka11. Re-housing trouble: Post-disaster reconstruction and exclusionary strategies in Venezuela - Isabel Rodríguez Mora12. An arm hanging in mid-air: a discussion on immigrant men and impossible relationships in Greece - Stavros Psaroudakis