Gender and Migration: Health and Well-being
2nd September, Serenity Café, Edinburgh
Photo: Madelon Lubin Finkel
‘Gender and Migration’ brings together practitioners, activists, and scholars to explore how gender affects the migratory experience.
The workshop is kindly supported by:BSA Diaspora, Migration, Transnationalism Study Group
Intercultural Research Centre (Heriot Watt University)
In Work Poverty Project (Heriot Watt University)
While considerable attention has been paid to migration within popular and academic discourses, gendered analyses remain relatively scarce. This workshop seeks to discuss the many facets and approaches pertaining to migration from gendered perspectives.
Confirmed speakers:
| Soo Downe | Migrant maternal health |
| Sheena Byrom | Migrant maternal health |
| Gina Netto | Migration, Gender and Poverty |
| Tanja Bueltmann | British diaspora (Historical Perspectives) |
| Joy Ogbemudia | Nigerian women professionals |
| Emma Hill | Somali populations in Glasgow |
| Amal Aazzudin | Gender and migration in Scotland |
| Lesley Irving | Head of Equality Policy for the Scottish Government |
Photo: Madelon Lubin Finkel
Draft Programme:
1330 to 1415: Registration, sandwich lunch and networking
1415 to 1430: Formal welcome
1430 to 1530: Round table discussions on health and well-being for men and women migrants. One confirmed speaker will chair each discussion to facilitate exchange between practitioners, activists, academics and those who have experienced migration.
1530 to 1545: tea and coffee
1545 to 1615: Question time panel
1615: Close and FWSA AGM
Registration:
£15 for waged delegates
£10 for FWSA members and unwaged delegates (including PhD students)
£10 for FWSA members and unwaged delegates (including PhD students)
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