RIS ID
13126
Abstract
It will be argued within this paper, that women’s experiences of displacement and exclusion need to be situated in the relationship between globalisation, neo conservatism and neo liberalism. Neo liberal globalisation diminishes all human pursuits into buying and selling. It is elites in the North who have implemented neoliberal policies into both the North and South over the past twenty five years. These policies have resulted in the eradication of social safeguards which have led to massive gendered displacement. While globalisation may conjure up a vision of a borderless world, as a result of the free flow of goods, it is increasingly about borders which are both permeable and exclusionary. Under neo liberal globalisation borders are either enforced or ignored, according to the needs of neo liberalism. Within this paper I will argue that while women and children make up the majority of refugees and displaced people, women as refugees, are rendered invisible in many national policies which focus on asylum seekers as male. My paper will highlight the relationship between forced migrations and the concerns that nation-states have with their national security and border control.
Link to publisher version (URL)
Annual Conference of the Australian Sociological Association
Publication Details
Vogl, G. J. 2005, ''Globalisation and gendered displacement'', in R. Julian, R. White & R. Rottier (eds), Community, Place, Change: TASA 2005 Conference Proceedings (The Australian Sociological Association), The Sociological Association of Australia (TASA), Australia.