WOST280 Gender and Migration
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Course Description
This online course maps selected sets of the literature on gender migration. It interrogates its historical, geographical, and sociological sources and focuses on the gendered and racilized nature of population movements, and its interconnectedness to the global structures of capitalism, imperialism and colonialism. The course examines various patterns of migration: development-induced migration, conflict-driven displacement, protracted refugee situations, and human trafficking.

Migration provides a context within which to understand and make visible the changing nature of gender relationships of power (gender, race, class, sexuality, ability, ect). Feminist scholarship on gender and migration stresses that relocation involves ‘reordering’ gender relations within different societies. In the last four decades most of the world refugees and immigrants came from three continents (Asia, Africa and Latin America). Through the use of specific global case studies, this course demonstrates that migration has both positive, as well as negative consequences in the lives of women, men and children who migrate. For instance, forced migration causes physical dislocation, disruption of social and cultural traditions, material dispossession, profound injustices, loss, trauma, marginalization and gender-based violence. Nevertheless, migration has also resulted in positive transformations: creating education, employment opportunities, new responsibilities for women, men and children that have enabled them to re-evaluate, reconfigure and significantly alter oppressive gender roles and relationships.
Course Video
Video IntroductionClosed Captioned
Academic Information
Credits: 3
Schedule & Fee
Dates: Feb 1 - May 7
Class #: 23149
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total Course Fee: $960
Instructor
Amani El Jack
amani.eljack@umb.edu
Book Information
Online references posted in class blackboard
Wimba Requirement
UMB online courses use Wimba classroom (a live discussion tool) at least twice during the semester. Information about Horizon Wimba can be found at www.dlvpc.umb.edu/wimbasupport.htm. Your course instructor will inform you about dates and times of course meetings in Wimba Classroom.