Gender and Migration - Marmara University (Istanbul) 11-13 May 2013

Another excting upcoming conference called Gender and Migration: Critical Issues and Policy Implications that will be held at Marmara University (Istanbul), 11-13  May 2013.

The conference is organised by the London Centre for Social Studies (LCSS) in collaboration with the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics (LSE), the Centre for Migration Policy Research at Swansea University, and the Department of Sociology at Marmara University.

This international conference invites expert contributions on the following areas:

• Transnationalism, diasporas and gender
• Gender and labour migration
• Gender-based violence and forced migration
• Migration and gender in the media
• Healthcare and migrant women
• Gender and migrant family relations
• Gendered experiences in Turkish migration

Find details about the call for paper here (deadline 22 February 2013)