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The conference is organised by The Migrating out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium; and hosted by the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore.

The times of ignoring women and girls’ encounter with migration as migrants in their own right and as active members of communities engaged in migratory livelihood practices have gone. In both policy and research circles changes in migration flows have generated profound attention to gendered and generational patterns of migration and to changes in these patterns. Empirical research has since helped enrich the ways in which gendered dimensions of migration are conceptualised and how this may impact policy. Important insights hail from research documenting gender differences in the ability to migrate, the feminisation of certain types of migration, and linkages between labour and mobility regimes impacting migrants and their home communities in complex and often gendered ways.

This conference brings together scholars and policy-makers focusing on the material and social linkages between gender and labour migration in the global South. Twenty carefully chosen research-based contributions will explore how notions of gender and age appropriate activities and comportment shape migratory projects and their outcomes, and how migration affects relationships between women and men and between parents and their sons and daughters. Two policy roundtables aim to facilitate dialogue between researchers and policy advisers by linking the latest research findings to current interventions and the lessons learned in organisations working with migrants.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

• Dr Trond Waage, University of Tromsø

Presenting his documentary ‘Les Mairuuwas’ and speaking on the topic of masculinities and expectations of migration among migrants in Central Africa

• Dr Deirdre McKay, Keele University

Speaking on the topic of international care chains, migration and multi-local families in Southeast Asia

PROGRAM

Please visit the conference website for more information about the program and speakers.

REGISTRATION

Admission is free, and seats are available on a first come, first served basis. We would greatly appreciate if you register your interest in attending to Ms Valerie Yeo via email: valerie.yeo@nus.edu.sg.

CONTACT DETAILS

Conference Convenors

Dr Dorte THOSEN
Migrating Out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium, University of Sussex, UK
d.thorsen@sussex.ac.uk

Professor Brenda YEOH
Asia Research Institute and Department of Geography, National University of Singapore