Migration and Gender: Legal, Sociolinguistic and Literary Perspectives

The Summer School on Migration and Gender: Legal, Sociolinguistic and Literary Perspectives offers an interdisciplinary approach to the ways in which migration intersects with gender. Gender is a constitutive element of migration. The course will discuss both this idea, and reversing the formula, it will examine the role of migration in shaping gender, understood as relational and performative. A particular focus will be on identity in relation to human rights and law, language, labor and culture. The course is an innovative exploration among three scholars in legal studies, literature and sociolinguistics, and the students.

Course leader

Sara De Vido, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy Laurie Shepard, Boston College, USA Francesco Goglia, University of Exeter, UK

Target group

Applications are welcome from current MA and PhD Students in Sociology, Gender Studies, Literature, Human rights, Law, Labor and Cultural Studies.

Course aim

- How to read and critically examine novels on the topic of gender and migration; - How to connect the legal aspects to the literary ones, and how to draw them out from a reading, that is, which questions transcend the particular circumstances of plot or culture; - How to analyze judgments and decisions from a legal point of view; - How to rewrite a judgment / decision using a gendered approach.