Thinking gender and belonging through transnational, diaspora and mobility studies

Breda Gray (University of Limerick)

There has been a proliferation of studies across disciplines in the humanities and social sciences in recent decades variously invoking the terms transnational(ism), diaspora and mobilities in accounting for migration and associated phenomena such as trans-generational ethnic identities and cross-border practices. Yet, we might ask to what extent these different terms and their respective bodies of scholarship provide insights into how human mobility can also reinforce nationalisms, ethnocentrisms, patriarchalisms and sexisms.

Breda Gray is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Director of programmes in Gender Culture & Society at the University of Limerick, Ireland. She is also co-convenor of the NUI Galway and UL research consortium Gender ARC.  She has published widely on gender, diaspora, transnationalism and mobility.

Friday 29 November, 12.15-14.00.
Uni Rokkan Centre, Nygårdsgaten 5, 6th floor.

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