Gender, Family and Migration

GENDER, FAMILY AND MIGRATION

 

Collection themes

The collection, Gender, Family, and Migration, seeks to present works with novel contributions in theoretical, methodological, and analytical areas around the current problems that surround each of our thematic lines. Being composed of three lines of research, each of them is a field of dissemination. The papers presented in each area seek to provide approaches to the current problems that challenge our themes.

The nature of our collection presents the opportunity to have works that communicate between its lines of research, thus generating spaces for reflection and exchange, for example, Gender and Migration, Family and Gender, Migration and Family.

In the case of Gender studies, the interest is oriented towards works that ideally fall within the following lines:
1. History of the genre
2. Gender and violence
3. Theoretical-methodological debates
4. State, Institutions, space, and gender.
5. Gender and environment

Our collection on Family studies is aimed at presenting works that provide analysis and transdisciplinary perspectives:
1. Family and gender
2. Family, work, and population mobility
3. Changes and transformations in families
4. Violence and family environment
5. Intersectionality in family studies
6. Childhood, youth, late adulthood, and family

Regarding Migration studies, we are interested in incorporating into our collection works with current approaches around the following topics:
1. Gender and migration.
2. Violence and migration
3. History of migration
4. Dynamics of mobility and migration policies
5. The family in migration contexts
6. Migration and labor markets

 

Disciplinary areas

We promote the publication of interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and multidisciplinary works that address the most relevant problems of our thematic lines with perspectives from the Social Sciences and Humanities (sociology, history, anthropology, economics, population studies, among others). We are interested in innovative and purposeful analyzes around the problems of our lines of research.

 

Director: Maribel Rivas Vasconcelos

I did my professional training in Mexico, the country where I was born. I am a Historian from the Autonomous Metropolitan University. Master in Modern and Contemporary History from the Dr. José María Luis Mora Research Institute. I finished my doctoral studies in Social Sciences at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, defending the thesis: The process of securing the Community Police in the State of Guerrero in Mexico, 1995-2013.

I have continued my professional training through diplomas and courses in National Security, Criminology, Criminalistics, Expertise in Anthropological Sciences, and Gender Studies. During 2017 I did a research stay at the Institute for Latin American Studies of the Freie Universität Berlin.

My lines of research have focused on issues of memory, social movements, the Cold War, violence, and the State. Currently, I am a professor at the university level, given my interdisciplinary training, I have taught subjects concerning History, Anthropology, and Criminology, the latter approaching it from a critical perspective and with a gender perspective.

In recent years I have accompanied civil organizations dedicated to supporting Latin American migrant women in Germany. I have collaborated, together with colleagues, in interdisciplinary teams, organizing events around the memory of the women of our region. In addition to the above, I have participated in workshops for women from Iraq and Iran living in Europe.

Within the framework of my collaboration with civil organizations, I have developed work through digital platforms, participating in the development and conduction of a podcast aimed at migrant women in Germany. In this same dynamic, I have contributed to projects aimed at forming learning communities, giving history consultancies to elementary-level boys and girls in Mexico.

Giving continuity to my academic work, I have participated in recent years in congresses and symposia at the international level on problems in Latin America, on social movements, and have published about groups of armed civilians in Mexico and Guatemala, the armed conflict in Guatemala, and memory studies.