Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research, 2019 (vol. 20), issue 1
Contested Borders: Transnational Migration and Gender

Editorial

Transnational Migration: Borders, Gender and Global Justice Challenges

Zuzana Uhde, Petra Ezzeddine

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2019, 20 (1): 3-17 | DOI: 10.13060/25706578.2019.20.1.467  

Articles

Ritual Modifications of Female Genitalia in the Diaspora: Towards an Effective Protection of Young Women

MariaCaterina La Barbera

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2019, 20 (1): 18-38 | DOI: 10.13060/25706578.2019.20.1.461  

This article focuses on the ritual modifications of female genitalia. It compares interventions in male and female genitalia on the one hand and ritual and cosmetic female interventions on the other in order to show the double standard used in Western countries. The main goal is to call for a more complex articulation of gender at the intersection with migration status, ethnicity, and neo-colonial relations and to argue in favour of more effective ways to abandon practices that are dangerous for young girls.

The Performative Effects of the European War on Migrants. Masculinities and Femininities at the Moroccan-Spanish Border

Elsa Tyszler

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2019, 20 (1): 40-66 | DOI: 10.13060/25706578.2019.20.1.462  

This article ethnographically explores how Central and West African masculinities and femininities are shaped and reshaped at the Moroccan-Spanish border in the context of the increased securitisation and politicisation of migrations from the global South to the global North. Apart from the migration regime at the outer border of the European Union, it also examines the role of the humanitarian regime in policing black migrants' gender identities. It aims to address an important aspect of the mobility experiences and bordering effects that tends to go under-researched. Drawing on long-term fieldwork, which was carried out between 2015 and 2017, it...

Sentimental Money - What Is the Cost of Transnational Motherhood?

Petra Ezzeddine

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2019, 20 (1): 68-90 | DOI: 10.13060/25706578.2019.20.1.463  

This paper seeks to analyse the material and social practices of Ukrainian transnational mothers - female domestic workers - who are living and working in the Czech Republic. The author focuses on the specific emotional nature of domestic work - precarious working conditions and interactions with employers - which has become an important source of their income. In the second part of the paper, the author focuses on the social and sentimental significance of material objects (gifts) and remittances for the experience and practice of transnational motherhood. She explains how the consumption of remittances for their children works as an important strategy...

Essay

Detention, Deportation, and Waiting: Toward a Theory of Migrant Detainability

Nicholas De Genova

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2019, 20 (1): 92-104 | DOI: 10.13060/25706578.2019.20.1.464  

The global expansion of deportation regimes has spurred an analogous expansion of migrant detention. Arguably even more than the onerous punitive power of deportation, detention imposes the sovereign power of a state on the lives of non-citizens in a manner that transmutes their status into de facto legal non-personhood. That is to say, with detention, the condition of deportable migrants culminates in summary (and sometimes indefinite) incarceration on the basis of little more than their sheer existential predicament as 'undesirable' non-citizens, often with little or no recourse to any form of legal remedy or appeal and frequently no semblance to...

Articles outside the special issue

Vaccination Policies and State Building in Post-war Angola

Virginie Tallio

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2019, 20 (1): 106-127 | DOI: 10.13060/25706578.2019.20.1.465  

The article explores how public health policies may be used by the state to (re)gain its legitimacy. The author examines this through the example of the use of vaccination policies in Angola, a Southern African country torn apart by thirty years of civil war. In particular, the author looks at how the Angolan government has managed to regain control of the country, understood as both a territory and a population, and focuses on the construction of the Angolan nation and the key role of women in this tactic. Vaccination policies have been used with four non-medical purposes: to reconquer the territory, to frame the nursing workforce, to shape motherhood,...

'It's Clear to the Kids': Sex Education and the Ethics of Care in the Narratives Surrounding the Slovak 'Referendum on the Family' in 2015

Ľubica Libáková, Veronika Valkovičová, Adriana Jesenková

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2019, 20 (1): 128-148 | DOI: 10.13060/25706578.2019.20.1.466  

The article is based on the theoretical framework of the ethics of care while examining the media narratives of sex education that emerged in connection with one of the questions in the Slovak Referendum on the Family in 2015. The first part of the article describes the approach of the ethics of care inspired by the work of Joan Tronto and other scholars as an analytic framework for the study of public policies. By means of critical frame analysis, the article also examines the subjectivity of children and young people in narrative interviews and looks at how these dominant actors define the provision of this education as a form of care. The article...

Reviews

Mobility as an Act of Radical Cosmopolitism - Notes on Research into Migrant Protest Movements

Marie Heřmanová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2019, 20 (1): 149-154  

Recenze knihy Caraus, T., Paris, E., eds.: Migration, Protest Movements and the Politics of Resistance

Care, Migration and Central Europe

Lenka Pavelková

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2019, 20 (1): 154-159  

Recenze knihy Bahna, M., Sekulová, M.: Crossborder Care

Hired Domestic Work in the Context of Gender Relations, Post-socialist Development of Family Policy and Care Ideals

Hana Hašková

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2019, 20 (1): 159-164  

Recenze knihy Sekeráková Búriková, Z.: Panie k deťom a na upratovanie

Critically about Language or so that "nicely Czech" does not mean "patriarchal"

Tereza Jiroutová Kynčlová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2019, 20 (1): 164-170  

Recenze knihy Valdrová, J.: Reprezentace ženství z perspektivy lingvistiky genderových a sexuálních identit

On the Violation of Women's Human Rights in Childbirths in Slovak Maternity Hospitals

Martina Přibyláková

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2019, 20 (1): 170-176  

Recenze knihy Debrecéniová, J., ed.: Ženy - Matky - Telá II

Information

The Border: A Space of Life for Migrants and Refugees

Delia Dutra, Tuíla Botega

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2019, 20 (1): 177-180  

Care Work Migration from and to East-Central Europe

Noémi Katona, Eszter Turai

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2019, 20 (1): 180-185  

Changes in Perception of Gender Equality in the State Administration through New European Legislation?

Markéta Švarcová

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2019, 20 (1): 185-189  

Report from the Spring School MAGIS, section Porn Studies: Porn Culture(s) Now

Michaela Lebedíková

Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research 2019, 20 (1): 189-192  

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