“Gender-Responsive Migration Governance? The Gendering of Migration and Border Control on an International Scale”

This paper analyzes the institutionalization of gender issues in the political field of migration and borders, reconstructing the production of an institutional framework, categories of intervention, and processes of subjectivation of refugee and migrant women. Through a documentary analysis of a set of reports, guides and memoirs produced in the context of global governance institutions between the 1980s and 1990s, it shows that the gender governance and migration governance have been intertwined into a novel form of control over populations in movement: the metabolization and instrumentalization of the “gender perspective” in migration and border control policies and practices.