Valentina Biondini
Valentina Biondini is a visiting scholar at the CPCP. She is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Buenos Aires with funding from CONICET. During her stay she will be supervised by Professor Miriam Ticktin, who co-directs her PhD thesis. Her dissertation research examines the gendering of the South American migration and border regime. Specifically, she critically analyzes humanitarian interventions to transit migration based on the “gender perspective,” through a multi-sited ethnography in six countries of the South American Western Corridor. Her recent and forthcoming publications analyze gender governmentality, the politicization of motherhood in migratory transits, and the configuration of the Western South American Corridor.
Collected Work
“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.