Call For Papers - Gendering border crossings

*Call for papers - Gendering border crossings *

Online journal *Re-public* <http://www.re-public.gr/en> invites

contributions for its upcoming special issue entitled "*Gendering border

crossings". *Most of the debate on sexual migration has been fashioned by

the discourse of trafficking. Largely dominated by gendered representations

of feminine victims and male victimizers, this discourse has come to

complement the perception of migration as a dangerous and threatening form

of border crossing associated with illegality and criminality. Beyond the

moralizing politics of trafficking, where humanitarianism is happily wed

with policing, however, border crossings linked to the sexual industry

or/and sexual relations continue to take place and have in fact flourished

opening up spaces of transnational and transgender flux. From sexual tourism

to transnational love affairs, from forced prostitution to migrations for

employment in the sex industry, the range of gendered crossings seems to

present multiple challenges to the ethnocentric and gendered bias of

contemporary politics. This special issue aims to explore the dynamics and

potentialities of gendering border crossings. Potential papers may include

the following:**

- Analyzing and problematizing forms of exclusion and inclusion

produced through border crossings

- Exploring representations of sexual desire and identity in border

crossings.

- Identifying challenges to gendered and ethnocentric notions of the

political

- Critically assessing gendered and racist biases that often underpin

anti-trafficking policies and the protection of the victims of trafficking.

- Conceptualizing the political character of sexual border crossings

beyond the trafficking discourse

- Exploring alternative practices and migrant identities that emanate

from the sexing of borders.

Essays should be approximately *1.500 words* long

Please submit contributions in any electronic format to:

*kambouri AT re-public.gr*

Deadline for submissions: *30 April 2008*

For more information, see www.re-public.gr/en