J Freedman
Biographic Data
| ID | 36978 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Freedman |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Freedman |
| SIGNATURE | FREEDMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre de recherches sociologiques et politiques de Paris |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2440-7131 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 291 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Impeded care, constrained care
Purpose This research explores the ethical and practical challenges in the care of newly arrived asylum seekers. This study aims to understand how healthcare systems in France, shaped by racial, gender and class–based biases, not only fail to provide adequate care but also contribute to dehumanisation and marginalisation. Design/methodology/approach Ethnographic observations and semi–structured interviews conducted between 2022 and 2023 with asyl…
“How far I go is not my choice”. Immobility, administrative violence and ontological insecurity amongst young people in situations of forced migration in South Africa
Whilst migration has been characterised as a quest for mobility, our research in South Africa has shown how young people in situations of forced migration experience multiple forms of immobility both physical and social as different legal, political, economic and social barriers restrict both their ability to be mobile within physical urban spaces and their social mobility within South African society. This article, based on focus group discussio…
Discussing the use of participatory methods with young people on the move
Introduction At the end of 2023, 117.3 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide. Despite the scale of this phenomenon, young migrants aged 15-25 remain largely invisible in both research and policy, as illustrated by the absence of age-disaggregated data. There is therefore an urgent need for research that centers the multifaceted experiences of young people growing up across borders. Research with populations in a condition of vulnerabil…
Gender-based and intersectional violence in migration and refugee contexts
Gender-based violence is a major infringement of women's human rights, and an obstacle to sustainable development as set out in the Sustainable Development Goals. In this article, we explore both the processes and findings of our international comparative project on gender-based violence in migration contexts. Our research takes a feminist, intersectional, collaborative, and contextual approach to understand gender-based violence in the context o…
Research Handbook on Asylum and Refugee Policy
International audience
Racisme à la frontière haute-alpine
À la frontière franco-italienne, les violences subies par celles et ceux qui tentent de la traverser laissent entrevoir les critères de profilage racial qui structurent les pratiques de contrôle et la répression. Dans ce climat hostile et d’invisibilisation des migrant·es, le processus de racialisation s’observe aussi dans les entraves mises à l’organisation des secours en montagne, aux prises en charge et à l’accès aux soins, en somme dans la dé…
Le genre dans l’étude des frontières
Cette contribution propose une approche intersectionnelle des frontières en examinant comment les dynamiques de genre, de classe et de race, notamment, modifient la manière dont les individus franchissent les frontières internationales, et comment les frontières internes (sociales, administratives, symboliques), bien qu’immatérielles, affectent les expériences des personnes migrantes. Cet article s’appuie sur les recherches présentées dans le liv…
But We Just Need Money”
This article is based on the experience of carrying out research with young refugee women in Durban, South Africa. We reflect on the possibilities of co‐producing knowledge in a situation of widely asymmetrical power relations where the young women with whom we were interacting were located in situations of economic, legal, and social vulnerability, and when their major concern was to find money for basic survival. The premise behind our research…
The Racialized Sexism of Migration and Asylum Regimes Pregnancy, Migration, and Borders in France
The gendered implications of migration and asylum regimes require further attention in an era of border militarization and increasingly hostile environments, especially across the Global North, a region in which many countries pride themselves on standing for gender equality, whereas they in fact perpetuate gendered forms of discrimination and violence against irregularized migrant women. This article examines the experiences in France of pregnan…
Exploring the Frontiers of Solidarity and Intimacy in Refugee "Solidarity" Movements in France
In the face of continued refugee arrivals, militarising of borders, and decreasing State support, France has experienced a rapid growth in refugee "solidarity" organisations. These informal organisations, often composed of volunteers who have no previous experience of engagement with migration issues, offer a range of services such as housing, economic support, social or legal assistance. But whilst this growth of citizen "solidarity'' towards re…
The Gender of Borders
International audience
Intergenerational trajectories of inherited vulnerabilities amongst young women refugees in South Africa
There is a paucity of scholarship examining the situated vulnerabilities of young women refugees who are either born in (second generation) or young children/adolescents on arrival in their host country (“1.5 generation”) and how these may impact intergenerational vulnerability or resilience. Based on qualitative research carried out in eThekwini (formerly known as Durban), South Africa amongst young women refugees (18–24 years) we highlight the …
Typology of European Sports Programmes for Welcoming Migrants
Asylum, Racism, and the Structural Production of Sexual Violence against Racialised Women in Exile in Paris
The recent arrival of refugees from Ukraine has thrown into sharp focus the racialised colonial underpinnings of the French asylum and refugee system, as the open-door welcome afforded to Ukrainians, supposedly "closer" to the French population, highlights the rejection and marginalisation of "others" who seek refuge in the country. The current situation lays bare not only the "double standards" applied to refugees depending on their country of o…
Where is the justice in EU anti-trafficking policy? Feminist reflections on European Union policy-making processes
In this article, we reflect on our personal experience of acting as ‘independent academic experts’ in an European Union (EU) policy forum, to reflect on how the EU utilises gender to legitimise certain policy discourses in combating sex trafficking. Starting from our personal experience, we draw on wider feminist research on gender expertise and on Fraser’s new reflexive theory of political injustice, to consider how the EU structures debates in …
Assessing the Impacts of Covid-19 on Women Refugees in South Africa
The global COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns and restrictions have had uneven impacts on populations and have deepened many pre-existing inequalities along lines of race, ethnicity, class, gender. Refugees have been shown to be particularly negatively impacted in many countries, with existing structures of violence and insecurity worsened by the immediate consequences of the pandemic through policy responses which largely ignore their ne…
Immigration, Refugees and Responses
International audience
Analysing the economies of transactional sex amongst young people
This article aims to explore the social and economic determinants of transactional sexual (TS) relationships in Madagascar, to explain the normalisation of this type of relationship amongst young women, and the increasing involvement of young men. We aim to contribute to existing research on TS by showing the complexities of the meanings and pathways into TS which are not limited to economic necessity, and the blurred boundaries between TS and ot…
Grand Challenges
International audience
The uses and abuses of "vulnerability" in EU asylum and refugee protection
El concepto de vulnerabilidad se ha convertido en el centro de la legislación y la política europeas de asilo y refugio en los últimos años. La adopción de medidas especiales diseñadas para ofrecer una mayor protección a los solicitantes de asilo vulnerables puede considerarse un paso positivo. Ahora bien, la forma en que se ha definido la vulnerabilidad es cuestionable. Con demasiada frecuencia, la vulnerabilidad se reduce a una categorización s…
After Calais”
Violences de genre et « crise » des réfugié·e·s en Europe
En 2015 plus d’un million de réfugié·e·s sont arrivé·e·s en Europe, fuyant des guerres, des conflits et des violences dans leurs pays d’origine. Le nombre d’arrivées actuelles dans l’Union européenne a diminué, mais il y en a toujours des milliers de personnes qui tentent chaque jour de rejoindre l’Europe, et des milliers qui périssent en mer en essayant d’y arriver 1 . Cette augmentation du nombre de réfugié·e·s arrivant en Europe depuis quelque…
Gender and Insecurity
'Gender and Insecurity' seeks to address some of the multiple insecurities facing migrant women living in Europe. The book [...] examine[s] the impact of globalization and of contemporary immigration and asylum policies on these women's lives [...], examining their role as active agents in the migratory process
Peur, honte, humiliation ? Les émotions complexes des demandeurs d’asile et des réfugiés en Europe
International audience
Conflits, « Crise » et femmes réfugiées en Europe
Les femmes sont de plus en plus nombreuses parmi les réfugiés qui tentent de rejoindre l’Europe pendant la « crise » actuelle. Cet article analysera les insécurités et les violences spécifiques aux femmes réfugiées. Insécurités qui sont souvent les conséquences directes des politiques européennes de « sécurité » et de fermeture des frontières. En se basant sur des entretiens et des observations dans différents endroits sur les routes migratoires,…
Sexual and gender-based violence against refugee women
The current refugee "crisis" in Europe has created multiple forms of vulnerability and insecurity for refugee women including various forms of sexual and gender-based violence. Increasing numbers of women, either alone or with family, are attempting to reach Europe to seek protection from conflict and violence in their countries, but these women are subject to violence during their journey and/or on arrival in a destination country. The lack of a…
Engendering Security at the Borders of Europe
The dangers facing migrants attempting to reach the EU by boat have been highlighted in many reports and media articles. However, although more and more women are among those trying to reach Europe, little attention has so far been paid to the gendered nature of the insecurities facing these migrants. This article examines the experiences of women arriving in Kos, Greece, as part of a journey to seek protection in Europe, and analyses the ways in…
Women in the European Parliament
Journal Article Women in the European Parliament Get access Jane Freedman Jane Freedman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 55, Issue 1, 1 January 2002, Pages 179–188, https://doi.org/10.1093/parlij/55.1.179 Published: 01 January 2002
Mainstreaming gender in refugee protection
The issues of gender-related persecution and violence against women have been put onto the international agenda, largely thanks to lobbying by feminist NGOs and transnational networks. There is a question, however, of how successfully this agenda-setting has translated into effective policy-making and policies that will increase the protection of women who are victims of gender-related persecution. One of the problems with policies to support wom…
Secularism as a Barrier to Integration? The French Dilemma
This article focuses on the secularism debate currently taking place in France by examining how this issue impacts the integration of immigrants, particularly Muslim immigrants. Secularism is one of the key values of French Republicanism, but one which has been challenged by the establishment of a settled population of Muslim immigrants in France. The issue has been particularly highlighted by the affaire des foulards (headscarf affair), an ongoi…
The uses and abuses of "vulnerability" in EU asylum and refugee protection
El concepto de vulnerabilidad se ha convertido en el centro de la legislación y la política europeas de asilo y refugio en los últimos años. La adopción de medidas especiales diseñadas para ofrecer una mayor protección a los solicitantes de asilo vulnerables puede considerarse un paso positivo. Ahora bien, la forma en que se ha definido la vulnerabilidad es cuestionable. Con demasiada frecuencia, la vulnerabilidad se reduce a una categorización s…
Analysing the Gendered Insecurities of Migration
This article examines the experiences of female migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa aiming to reach Europe via Morocco. The article argues that European immigration policies and policies of co-operation with neighbouring countries on the other side of the Mediterranean, have increased the sources of insecurity for migrants attempting to reach Europe, and shows how these insecurities are gendered
Asylum, Racism, and the Structural Production of Sexual Violence against Racialised Women in Exile in Paris
The recent arrival of refugees from Ukraine has thrown into sharp focus the racialised colonial underpinnings of the French asylum and refugee system, as the open-door welcome afforded to Ukrainians, supposedly "closer" to the French population, highlights the rejection and marginalisation of "others" who seek refuge in the country. The current situation lays bare not only the "double standards" applied to refugees depending on their country of o…
The Réseau Education Sans Frontières
This article analyses the emergence of the Réseau Education Sans Frontières (RESF) in France, a movement that emerged in response to fear about the deportation of immigrant children who were pupils in French schools. Mobilising ethical concerns about children's welfare, the movement has been able to create public debate about the French State's moral responsibility to protect these children of ‘sans-papiers’. Based on qualitative research, this a…
Increasing Women's political representation
In 1999 and 2000 the French parliament passed a constitutional revision and a set of legislation with the aim of achieving parity of representation between men and women in France's elected assemblies. France was the first country in Europe to institute such radical reform to address the issue of women's under-representation in politics. The success of the parity reforms in achieving equal representation for women has been limited, however. This …
Protecting Women Asylum Seekers and Refugees
Little attention is paid in most national asylum policies and legislation to the specific position of female asylum seekers, and to gendered aspects of refugee and asylum situations. Further, even in those countries that have adopted asylum legislation to specifically address the question of women asylum seekers and victims of gender specific persecution, problems still remain in the implementation of these policies and in the full recognition of…
Mobilising against detention and deportation
Women’s Right to Asylum
Explaining Sexual Violence and Gender Inequalities in the DRC
Assessing the Impacts of Covid-19 on Women Refugees in South Africa
The global COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns and restrictions have had uneven impacts on populations and have deepened many pre-existing inequalities along lines of race, ethnicity, class, gender. Refugees have been shown to be particularly negatively impacted in many countries, with existing structures of violence and insecurity worsened by the immediate consequences of the pandemic through policy responses which largely ignore their ne…
Immigration, Refugees and Responses
International audience
Women Seeking Asylum
The issue of asylum seekers and refugees has been a major source of debate in European countries in recent years. However, little attention has been paid to the gendered impacts of recent developments in asylum policy and legislation. This article will explore the experiences of women seeking asylum in France in order to analyse the way that the asylum decision-making process operates through gendered lenses that ignore the complexity of women's …
But We Just Need Money”
This article is based on the experience of carrying out research with young refugee women in Durban, South Africa. We reflect on the possibilities of co‐producing knowledge in a situation of widely asymmetrical power relations where the young women with whom we were interacting were located in situations of economic, legal, and social vulnerability, and when their major concern was to find money for basic survival. The premise behind our research…
After Calais”
Analysing the economies of transactional sex amongst young people
This article aims to explore the social and economic determinants of transactional sexual (TS) relationships in Madagascar, to explain the normalisation of this type of relationship amongst young women, and the increasing involvement of young men. We aim to contribute to existing research on TS by showing the complexities of the meanings and pathways into TS which are not limited to economic necessity, and the blurred boundaries between TS and ot…
Grand Challenges
International audience
The Socioeconomic Context of Africa’s Vulnerability to Hiv/Aids
although the proximate cause of africa’s aids crisis is hiv, the underlining societal causes are much broader and familiar. across the continent, poverty structures not only the contours of the pandemic but also the outcome once an individual is infected with hiv. thus, until poverty is reduced there will be little progress with either reducing transmission of the virus or creating an enhanced capacity to cope with its socioeconomic consequences.…
Gender-based and intersectional violence in migration and refugee contexts
Gender-based violence is a major infringement of women's human rights, and an obstacle to sustainable development as set out in the Sustainable Development Goals. In this article, we explore both the processes and findings of our international comparative project on gender-based violence in migration contexts. Our research takes a feminist, intersectional, collaborative, and contextual approach to understand gender-based violence in the context o…
Where is the justice in EU anti-trafficking policy? Feminist reflections on European Union policy-making processes
In this article, we reflect on our personal experience of acting as ‘independent academic experts’ in an European Union (EU) policy forum, to reflect on how the EU utilises gender to legitimise certain policy discourses in combating sex trafficking. Starting from our personal experience, we draw on wider feminist research on gender expertise and on Fraser’s new reflexive theory of political injustice, to consider how the EU structures debates in …
Genre et migration forcée
Si les recherches sur les femmes et les migrations ont commence a se multiplier, en France comme ailleurs, il reste toujours tres peu d’etudes qui se focalisent sur les femmes demandeuses d’asile et refugiees. Cependant, si ces dernieres ont bien sur des experiences communes avec d’autres femmes migrantes, les processus politiques et juridiques qui encadrent la demande d’asile, lies aux conditions specifiques d’une migration forcee, impliquent d…
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access JANE FREEDMAN JANE FREEDMAN King's CollegeLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXIII, Issue 452, June 1998, Page 786, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXIII.452.786 Published: 01 June 1998
Les hasards d'être femme en politique
Bredin, F., Députée: Journal de bord (Fayard, 1997), 270 pp., 120F., ISBN 2 213 59846 0 Guigou, E., Etre femme en politique (Plon, 1997), 272 pp., 118F., ISBN 2 259 18629 7 Halimi, G., La nouvelle cause des femmes (Seuil, 1997), 226 pp., 110F., ISBN 2 02 031973 X
Women, Immigration and Identities in France
This book is the first to address the relationship between gender and immigration in contemporary France and the political and personal issues that affect women of immigrant origin. Focusing on the social and political aspects of women’s lives, the book investigates how they are affected by racism and changes in citizenship laws and explores the strategies they use to combat exclusion through movements such as the ‘sans-papiers’. Authors go on to…
Outcomes of HIV/Aids case management in New York
The purpose of this study was to examine HIV case management (CM) outcomes in New York State. The results presented here are part of a larger study that explored: client needs identified during CM, success in arranging needs, other case managers used by the client, coordination between multiple case managers, client satisfaction with CM, and the correlation between health care costs and CM. This paper focuses on the linkage of clients with servic…
Speciesism
Journal Article Speciesism Get access Joel Freedman Joel Freedman Canandaigua, NY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 46, Issue 2, April 2001, Page 189, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/46.2.189-a Published: 01 April 2001
Development and implementation of an HIV/Aids case management outcomes assessment programme
The Case Management Section of the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute coordinates the provision of case management services for people living with HIV/AIDS throughout the state. The Community Follow-Up Program (CFP), providing intensive case management for HIV-positive individuals and their families, operates under the auspices of the Case Management Section. This article focuses on a public/private outcomes assessment partnership…
Organizational and environmental predictors of job satisfaction in community-based HIV/Aids services organizations
Journal Article Organizational and environmental predictors of job satisfaction in community-based HIV/AIDS services organizations Get access Ronald W. Gimbel, MA, Ronald W. Gimbel, MA doctoral candidate Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs, State University of New York, Albany e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sue Lehrman, PhD, Sue Lehrman, PhD associate professor and di…
Responses to Reflections and Farewell
Journal Article Responses to Reflections and Farewell Get access Irv Fellner, Irv Fellner Mesa, AZ Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Joel Freedman Joel Freedman Canandaigua, NY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Work, Volume 47, Issue 3, July 2002, Pages 330–331, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/47.3.330-a Published: 01 July 2002
Women in the European Parliament
Journal Article Women in the European Parliament Get access Jane Freedman Jane Freedman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 55, Issue 1, 1 January 2002, Pages 179–188, https://doi.org/10.1093/parlij/55.1.179 Published: 01 January 2002
Secularism as a Barrier to Integration? The French Dilemma
This article focuses on the secularism debate currently taking place in France by examining how this issue impacts the integration of immigrants, particularly Muslim immigrants. Secularism is one of the key values of French Republicanism, but one which has been challenged by the establishment of a settled population of Muslim immigrants in France. The issue has been particularly highlighted by the affaire des foulards (headscarf affair), an ongoi…
Increasing Women's political representation
In 1999 and 2000 the French parliament passed a constitutional revision and a set of legislation with the aim of achieving parity of representation between men and women in France's elected assemblies. France was the first country in Europe to institute such radical reform to address the issue of women's under-representation in politics. The success of the parity reforms in achieving equal representation for women has been limited, however. This …
Introduire le genre dans le débat sur l'asile politique
Pour les pays européens, la question des réfugiés et des demandeurs d’asile est devenue de plus en plus controversée ces dernières années. L’idée que l’Europe est submergée de demandeurs d’asile, dont la plupart n’en seraient pas de véritables, mais plutôt des migrants économiques (ou encore des demandeurs d’asile « bidon » comme certains médias et services et institutions anglais les ont « labellisés ») ont mené les gouvernements à s'efforcer de…
Hiv/Aids in Rural India
primary research on hiv/aids in india has predominantly focused on known risk groups such as sex workers, sti clinic attendees and long-distance truck drivers, and has largely been undertaken in urban areas. there is evidence of hiv spreading to rural areas but very little is known about the context of the infection or about issues relating to health and social impact on people living with hiv/aids. in-depth interviews with nineteen men and women…
The Socioeconomic Context of Africa’s Vulnerability to Hiv/Aids
although the proximate cause of africa’s aids crisis is hiv, the underlining societal causes are much broader and familiar. across the continent, poverty structures not only the contours of the pandemic but also the outcome once an individual is infected with hiv. thus, until poverty is reduced there will be little progress with either reducing transmission of the virus or creating an enhanced capacity to cope with its socioeconomic consequences.…
Persécutions des femmes
Gendering the International Asylum and Refugee Debate
This study provides a comprehensive account of the situation of women refugees globally and explains how they differ from men. It looks at causes of refugee flows, international laws and conventions a
A continuum-based outcome approach to measuring performance in HIV/Aids case management
This methods paper is third in a series addressing client outcomes in HIV/AIDS case management. After introducing earlier work the authors outline their effort to consolidate numerous discrete outcome measures and to establish each outcome indicator along a continuum scale that can be self-abstracted by HIV/AIDS service providers. The paper includes in-depth discussion of challenges and benefits derived from this type of outcome measurement proce…
Women, Islam and rights in Europe
In 2004 the French National Assembly and Senate passed legislation which makes it illegal for Muslim women to wear headscarves (the hijab ) within French public schools. To be precise the legislation refers to the banning of ostentatious religious symbols within the secular domain of the public school system, but is clearly aimed primarily at Muslim women, following a long-running dispute over this issue. Similar debates are taking place in other…
Women’s Right to Asylum
Women Seeking Asylum
The issue of asylum seekers and refugees has been a major source of debate in European countries in recent years. However, little attention has been paid to the gendered impacts of recent developments in asylum policy and legislation. This article will explore the experiences of women seeking asylum in France in order to analyse the way that the asylum decision-making process operates through gendered lenses that ignore the complexity of women's …
Genre et migration forcée
Si les recherches sur les femmes et les migrations ont commence a se multiplier, en France comme ailleurs, il reste toujours tres peu d’etudes qui se focalisent sur les femmes demandeuses d’asile et refugiees. Cependant, si ces dernieres ont bien sur des experiences communes avec d’autres femmes migrantes, les processus politiques et juridiques qui encadrent la demande d’asile, lies aux conditions specifiques d’une migration forcee, impliquent d…
Mobilising against detention and deportation
Protecting Women Asylum Seekers and Refugees
Little attention is paid in most national asylum policies and legislation to the specific position of female asylum seekers, and to gendered aspects of refugee and asylum situations. Further, even in those countries that have adopted asylum legislation to specifically address the question of women asylum seekers and victims of gender specific persecution, problems still remain in the implementation of these policies and in the full recognition of…
Les mobilisations féministes autour du droit d’asile en France et au Royaume-Uni
Les conventions internationales sur les réfugié·e·s et le droit d’asile sont en principe neutres du point de vue du genre. Cependant, les critiques féministes affirment que ces conventions sont en fait ébranlées par des pratiques profondément tributaires du genre et donc qu’elles échouent à protéger les femmes, notamment parce que les persécutions dont ces dernières sont victimes ne sont pas reconnues comme telles. Des mobilisations féministes tr…
Mainstreaming gender in refugee protection
The issues of gender-related persecution and violence against women have been put onto the international agenda, largely thanks to lobbying by feminist NGOs and transnational networks. There is a question, however, of how successfully this agenda-setting has translated into effective policy-making and policies that will increase the protection of women who are victims of gender-related persecution. One of the problems with policies to support wom…
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