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As of 5 July 2020, Qatar has the second-highest number of Covid19 cases in the Gulf Corporation Council (GCC) region with almost 100,000 cases, and the highest per capita rate of Covid19 in the world. Even though extensive contact tracing and testing by the Government of Qatar have helped to keep the country’s fatality rate […]
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As of May 15 2020, the six Gulf Corporation Council (GCC) countries; namely Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, and Bahrain have recorded approximately 118,739 cases of Covid-19 forcing GCC governments to take drastic measures from restricting economic activities to lockdowns to control the spread of the virus. These containment measures […]
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Our research investigates the gendered processes of labour migration of domestic and care workers (MDWs), along with their experiences of urban life in Istanbul. As an interdisciplinary urban study in concordance with ethnographic methodologies, it further focuses on gendered drivers of migration: the home, work, and social urban environments of MDWs. The significance of our […]
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The aim of this report is to understand and analyse the living and working conditions of migrant domestic and care workers in Istanbul through several themes, such as drivers for migration, living/working experiences and practices, and migrant women’s spatial mobility in the city. Based on migrant women’s own narratives, this report also discusses the impacts […]
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The first part of our research aims to investigate the gendered dynamics of labour migration of skilled (university graduate) more highly educated migrant women working and living in Istanbul, along with their experiences in urban space. This project further focuses on the drivers and processes of migration and urban life (home, work, socialising) experiences in […]
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This is a blog post published on the LSE Gender Hub pages. As Afghanistan collapsed and crisis became imminent this was written during my work as a colleague, a humanitarian actor, a fund raiser to help with evacuating our research colleagues from the country in August 2021. “This is not political analysis – I will […]
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Migration is not a one-way street. Recent years have seen increasing transnational mobility and return migration, involving the rapid development of transport and communication technologies, the relative improvement of political and economic situations in the migrants’ homeland as well as anti-migration hostility and the exclusion of incoming people from the labour market in settlement countries. […]
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A presentation delivered at IMISCOE Spring Conference 2024. The history of Afghanistan & Pakistan has shared ongoing socio-political instability, armed conflicts, environmental catastrophes and economic crises. Almost 2 million Afghan live in Pakistan. Between 2002 and 2021, over 5 million refugees returned home, while nearly 3.5 million Afghans are presently internally displaced. Data were collected […]
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This brief focuses on the gendered dynamics of labour migration in Turkey, looking at the labour migration of both skilled migrant women working and living in Istanbul, and lower skilled Migrant Domestic Workers (MDWs). The findings are based on two distinct case studies that look at female labour migrants from neighbouring countries in the Global […]
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This brief focuses on two separate but interconnected aspects of post-conflict Sri Lanka. Firstly, the brief looks at the current realities for returning migrants and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Jaffna District in the Northern Province, one of the areas where there is a large IDP population. The findings show how gender and intersecting […]