What are the different ways in which we can understand gendered diasporic identities?

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Published: Apr 22, 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14482/zp.11.080.91
Keywords:
Diaspora gender identity gender and migration theory gender discrimination.

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Roxana Buitrago Leal
Docente-investigadora de tiempo y completo del departamento de historia y ciencias sociales Universidad del Norte.

Abstract

Gender studies has facilitated the exploration of Aids and Migration among other social problems, and has enabled a more sensible understanding of the discrimination practices that exist around them. This paper will discuss the aspects in which gender studies have contributed to assess issues regarding migration from the gendered diaspora perspective. This sociological construction of diaspora encompasses the many different reasons why migrants decide to leave their country, bounded by national, racial or ethnic background, which enroll in a strong political motivation. Although in this essay, the theoretical discussion will embrace male gendered diasporas as well, critics of the term have questioned how gendered diasporas have been traditionally understood of men. The first part of the discussion will be guided by the question: what is a gendered diaspora identity? The essay will emphasise the gendered category of analysis.

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No. 11 (2009)
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Ensayo teórico
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Author Biography

Roxana Buitrago Leal, Docente-investigadora de tiempo y completo del departamento de historia y ciencias sociales Universidad del Norte.

Politóloga con Maestría en Latinoamérica,; Maestría en Cultura y
Sociedad (sociología).

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