Aberman, ‘(Re)Conceptualizing Gender and Sexuality’, 2024
- Category: Literature
- Source: Academic
- Subject: Sexual Orientation/Sexuality, Gender Identity, Intersex, Refugee/Asylum
- Place: Americas, Other
- Year: 2024
- File: 9780228022190Forced-1
- URL: https://repository.library.carleton.ca/concern/works/k643b269w?locale=en
Tanya Aberman, ‘(Re)Conceptualizing Gender and Sexuality: Current Understandings and Debates in Forced Migration Research and Policy in Canada’, Christina R. Clark-Kazak (ed.), Forced Migration in/to Canada: From Colonization to Refugee Resettlement, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024, 167-180
Key takeaways
· The gender binary is a colonial social construct.
· Sexual orientation and gender identity exist on a broad spectrum and can be fluid and context specific.
· Gender identity and sexual orientation intersect with race, class, age, ability, and religion in shaping life experiences in forced migration
contexts.
· Gender guidelines and Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression, and Sex Characteristics (sogiesc) guidelines have been developed within the Canadian refugee determination system to better recognize diverse experiences of persecution and forced migration. These guidelines have noted limitations.
· Gender and sexuality constructs and realities impact forced migrants navigating refugee and humanitarian processes.