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Gender and Displaced Migration Governance in Scotland -  Nasar Meer, Timothy Peace & Emma Hill

1 Sep 2020

Though the Scottish Government has used the opportunities of devolution to develop a markedly more progressive policy approach to gender dynamics than that of the UK Government, (a) restrictions in the devolved/reserved architecture and (b) an absence of intersectional thinking on matters relating to displacement, race and gender has left gendered inequalities experienced by displaced migrants in. [...] 1.2 Research gaps and questions In this report, we therefore ask and address the following: - To what extent does the reserved/devolved settlement impact gendered service provision for asylum seekers and refugees? - To what extent does the hierarchy of immigration statuses and immigration pathways have gendered impacts? - How do policies and legislation relating to both gender and displaced migrat. [...] Gender and Displaced Migration Infrastructure 2.1 The 1951 Convention and gender The realisation of a ‘gendered approach’ to displaced migration has been hard fought in both international and national contexts, and remains a source of contention. [...] ‘Gender’ itself is mentioned only six times in passing in the Strategy document, to acknowledge (a) the Strategy’s national and international equalities duties (Scottish Government 2018b, p.21, p.28) (b) the influence of gender-based violence on the experiences of displaced women and girls (ibid, p.16, p.87) and (c) the influence of gender in the experiences of LGBTQI asylum seekers and refugees (. [...] Though it developed in a context in which attitudes to gender and sexuality had historically been punitively conservative (Davidson and Davis 2006), the Scottish Government is broadly recognised to have demonstrated a commitment to gender equality since the reinstatement of the Scottish Parliament in 1999 (Engender 2015).

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