MINORITY WOMEN, EUROPEAN INTEGRATION, AND THE EUROPEAN UNION

Lise Rolandsen Agustin (Aalborg University)
To an increasing extent, women organize collectively at the transnational, European level. Women’s transnational organizations are, however, challenged in their efforts to combine gender equality concerns with diversity. This talk shows the different ways in which minority and majority organizations deal with gender and diversity and, in particular, ethnic minority women’s concern. The interaction between these organizations and the EU is addressed by assessing the potential of the transnational, European civil society in terms of defining and representing the diversity of women’s collective interests vis-à-vis the EU. Theoretically the talk introduces to the term political intersectionality, which is conceptualized as a complex and dynamic web of interrelations where institutionalized and noninstitutionalized actors mutually influence each other in discourses, policies, and practices of intersectionality.

Lise Rolandsen Agustín is assistant professor at the Centre for Equality, Diversity and Gender (EDGE) at Aalborg University, Denmark. She has previously worked as a junior researcher on the European Commission FP6 projects EUROSPHERE and QUING. Her research interests include social movements and women’s transnational activism, intersectionality and diversity, as well as EU gender equality policies and policy-making processes.

Friday 24 May, 14.15-16.00
(Note venue!) Staff Seminar Room, Department of Comparative Politics, Christiesgate 15, 2. Floor.

Poster

SEMINAR SERIES ON TRANS-EUROPEAN POWERS AND THE RE-STRUCTURING OF MAJORITY-MINORITY RELATIONS

Seminar organizer: Hakan G. Sicakkan