ABSTRACT
The causes and consequences of moving either by force or choice are gendered. This is partly due to the ways gendered individuals are positioned differently in relation to many aspects or sites of migration and forced displacement. To fully understand migration and displacement, we need to think carefully about how gender intersects with race and class as well as influenced by heteronormative assumptions about sexuality and ableist assumptions about bodily capability. The chapter opens with a reflection on the gendered impact of the Covid-19 pandemic of on displaced persons, asylum seekers and migrant workers. It then proceeds to sketch two developments in forced migration studies, first, the inclusion of gender into refugee protection law and policy and second, the securitisation of migration. The chapter then moves to discuss the gendered nature of the global political economy of migration and displacement. This section focuses on the increasingly globalised division of labour and how it is connected to the ways people negotiate the links among family, work and migration. The final section draws together literature on climate change, migration and gender to highlight how urgent it is to ask feminist questions about the gendered impact of increasingly frequent natural disasters as well as the ‘slower’ onset of rising sea levels and the implications of this for people experience citizenship, statehood and protection.
