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Published in: 50.50The invisible migrant man: questioning gender privileges
Gendered approaches to migration often emphasise the experiences of female migrants, at times privileging their...
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Published in: 50.50Making visible the invisible: commodification is not the answer
If you are invisible as a producer in the GDP, you are invisible in the distribution of benefits in the economic...
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Published in: 50.50UK migration: a hierarchy of injustices
The social cohesion and inclusion debate does not even begin to touch the lives of those invisible migrants who toil...
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Published in: 50.50"Food sovereignty" as a transformative model of economic power
The argument is being made that “food sovereignty” is an organising principle so demonstrably strong that it has the...
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Published in: 50.50Women defining economic citizenship
How can we empower women to participate in existing economic structures and also transform them? We need a model of...
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Published in: 50.50What does transforming economic power mean?
Today's targeting of women in processes of realigning economic controls is perhaps quite unique. In order to unpack...
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Published in: 50.50La reconstruction post-conflit: il faut demander aux agricultrices
Vingt ans de conflit ont détruit le tissu social en Casamance. Le seul mode de rétablir la sécurité et d’éradiquer...
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Published in: 50.50Post conflict reconstruction: ask the women farmers
Twenty years of conflict has destroyed the social fabric of Casamance. The only way to re-instate security and...
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Published in: 50.50Reclaiming care as a fundamental end in itself
In the global context of economic insecurity and emerging 'care crises', there is a real risk that the development...
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Published in: 50.50Sénégal: la terre à ceux qui la travaillent
Plus d’un quart de siècle de conflit armé, un tissu socio-économique complètement déstructuré, mais les femmes de...
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Published in: 50.50Senegal: the land belongs to those who work it
After a quarter century of armed conflict, and a socio-economic fabric reduced to shreds, women in Casamance,...
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Published in: 50.50Gender and destitution in the UK
The real migration scandal in the UK are the people forced to live without any recourse to public funds. Migrant...
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Published in: 50.50The feminisation of poverty and the myth of the 'welfare queen'
Governments are constructing social policy based on misrepresentations and stereotypes about poor people and welfare...
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Published in: 50.50Land grabs: the threat to African women’s livelihoods
Despite the African Union's commitment to strengthening women's access and control of land by placing land rights in...
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Published in: 50.50Why the gender pay gap matters
With so many families in Britain struggling in the face of the Coalition's austerity measures, wage inequalities...
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Published in: 50.50Development and religion: ambivalent policy, grounded practice
Development policy seems to swing between a Marmite-style love-it-or-hate-it approach to religion. Yet practice on...
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Published in: 50.50Why migrant mothers die in childbirth in the UK
Maternal mortality among black African women in the UK is up to seven times higher than it is among white women....
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Published in: 50.50Mad Women on the March
The Fawcett Society believes that the UK coalition government has broken the law in not assessing the impact of...
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Published in: 50.50South Korea: destroying the lives of the Haenyo ‘sea women’
A naval base being built on Jeju Island threatens to destroy the livelihoods of the iconic women shellfish divers...
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Published in: 50.50Unheard and unseen in Britain
Time and time again I hear from refugee women that they want to work and contribute to British society. A dignified...