SA4007 Intersectionalities: Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Migration

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 1

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

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Planned timetable

To be confirmed

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Module coordinator

Dr A P Gutierrez Garza

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Module Staff

Dr Ana Gutierrez Garza

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Module description

This module considers the relationship between migration and gender. We will examine how gender informs the migration process, produces new relationships and how women and men navigate their lives as migrants. The aim is to provide a critical understanding of the connections that exist between migration and its intersections with gender, class, race, and sexuality. It begins by providing students with a theoretical grounding in the literature on anthropology, gender and migration and the ways in which the state, work, family as well as intersectional identities shape gender. It explores the links that exist between these analytical categories through an anthropological analysis of intimate labour markets, legal statuses, middle-class migrations, love and romance, queer migrations, masculinities, refugees and forced migration and the overall representation of the other.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST PASS SA2001 AND PASS SA2002

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 lecture X10 weeks, 2 tutorials X10 weeks

Intended learning outcomes

  • To emphasize the importance of sexuality, race and gender for globalisation
  • To highlight the importance of the relationship between the concepts of sexuality, gender and race (among others) in evaluating migration
  • To consider contemporary case studies and evaluate them from an interdisciplinary and intersectional perspective.
  • Appreciation of the intersectionality of concepts relating to the field.
  • Experience of working with others, presenting ideas verbally and participating in seminar and lecture discussions.
  • Reflect on contemporary discussions around migration