About Gender, Migration and Global Justice

The Gender, Migration and Global Justice community seeks to promote effective inclusion through:

• Community building
  • Creating opportunities for collaboration between gender and diversity researchers across disciplines. 
  • Providing meaningful connections between multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders.
• Scientific excellence
  • Focusing on scientifically-based strategies for the implementation of gender and diversity programs
  • Enriching ongoing scientific research within and across disciplines
  • Developing new scientific insights with strong empirical foundations
• Societal impact
  • Creating a platform for demand-driven research
  • Approaching gender and diversity issues as they are presented by our societal partners
  • Visualising and disseminating research findings to a broad audience

The notion of intersectionality is crucial as an analytical lens. We address how mobility, gender, race, class, sexuality and legal status intersect to shape visibility, identity, belonging, participation, and power. This pillar includes bottom-up agency by ensuring that marginalized voices actively shape research agendas, institutions, and public narratives. Media, cultural production, and creative practices are treated as key sites of political struggle and innovation, enabling alternative representations of migration and gender that challenge exclusionary discourses and foster democratic participation.

• SIG: PhD group with a focus on intersectionality
• SIG: Identities, belongings and citizenship(s)
• SIG: Migration, gender and creative practices (Art)
• SIG: Discrimination, racial profiling and algorithms

The right to mobility is central to freedom, yet unequally governed. This pillar examines diverse forms of migration—forced, labor, student, climate, and restricted mobility—to interrogate how rights to move, stay, and belong are stratified. We analyze how gendered and racialized regimes of (im)mobility produce vulnerability as well as political agency. By questioning dominant security-driven and nationalist frameworks, this pillar reclaims mobility as a key dimension of emancipation and global justice.

• SIG: Forced Migration and Conflict zones
• SIG: Student and labor-related mobilities
• SIG: Sex work and migration

Care is understood as a collective, transnational, and political principle rather than a private obligation. Migration renders global care relations visible, exposing unequal dependencies structured by gender and mobility. This pillar advances care as a unifying thread across research, teaching, and community-building, emphasizing mentoring, collective well-being, and sustained collaboration. Addressing gender-based violence and precarity within contexts of mobility, the community studies care and solidarity as practices of resistance, protection, and social transformation.

• SIG: Interdisciplinary Research Network on Care and Welfare

Democracy depends on just legal frameworks and fair redistribution of resources, rights, and recognition. This pillar connects gender and migration research to question the rule of law, digital governance, labor justice, and anti-discrimination policy. It examines why voters support populism and the radical right and how this affects democratic institutions. Moreover, it is studied how legal and societal pathways strengthen inclusive governance. Through engagement with policy makers and civil society, the community translates research into democratic practice.

• SIG: Social justice and the rule of law
• SIG: Gender Based Violence
• SIG: Populism and the radical right