Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies - Volume 17, Issue 3, 2014

Abstract This article explores adaptation strategies among Russian-speaking immigrants in Germany from a gender perspective. The methodological basis of the research is Berry’s model of acculturation and feminist theory. The acculturation strategies and determinants of migration behaviour are analysed based on migration statistics and the results of a survey. Particular attention is paid to gender differen Read More

Abstract The position of female rejected asylum seekers in the Netherlands reveals how European citizenship is built on gendered notions of belonging to a national body, with its annexed discourses on migrant exclusion and asylum that set the conditions for rejected asylum seekers. This paper examines the experiences of female rejected asylum seekers who rely on NGOs, municipal homeless shelters, and informal netwo Read More

Abstract This article will focus on marriage related forms of migration in Cameroon and will reconsider the gendered nature of fortress Europe by critically questioning how regulatory technologies at consulate offices grant or withhold access to Europe to both men and women. In their daily work, consulate officers construct some visa applicants and family members as deviant criminals, while others are framed as in need of Read More

Abstract Care has long been a key field of struggle and discourse for feminist interventions and movements. The significance of gendered assumptions, attitudes, and practices about caring tasks and those who care has led critics to specifically focus on this crucial task of human reproduction that has previously largely been considered a private matter. Starting in the late 1980s, the tensions and conflicts between Read More