The Racialized Sexism of Migration and Asylum Regimes Pregnancy, Migration, and Borders in France

Bibliographic Data

ID12426540
AuthorsJ Freedman (0000-0003-2440-7131, GTM-CRESPPA, CNRS, Paris 8 University , 59 Rue Pouchet , 75017 Paris, corresponding author), N Sahraoui (0000-0002-0014-7489, PRINTEMPS, CNRS, Paris Saclay University , 47 Boulevard Vauban 78047 Guyancourt Cedex), Elsa Tyszler (0000-0002-8590-8709, GTM-CRESPPA, CNRS , 59 Rue Pouchet , 75017 Paris)
Year2024
Volume32
Issue3
Pages513-536
Publication date2024-12-05
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Politics International Studies in Gender State & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1072-4745 • E-ISSN: 1468-2893
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/sp/jxae037
OpenAlexW4406506227
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited52

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 pregnant women and recent mothers from Global South countries and their encounters with the asylum and migration regimes and the healthcare sector. We argue that the administrative precarity and material destitution that contemporary asylum and migration policies enact need to be analyzed as racialized sexism because of their specifically gendered implications as well as their racist premises. This research stems from fieldwork carried out in France in 2020 and 2021 in the capital, as well as at the “air borders” and at the French–Italian border in the Alps

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