Toward Global Justice: Intersecting Structural Vulnerabilities as a Key Category for Equality Policies in the Age of Bordered Migrations
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[1] Faculty of Social Sciences, Nebrija University, Madrid, Spain
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- Localización: Challenging the borders of justice in the age of migrations / coord. por Juan Carlos Velasco Arroyo, Maria Caterina La Barbera, 2019, ISBN 978-3-030-05589-9, págs. 205-224
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Equality between women and men is one of the millennium goals. However, policies adopted to pursue such a goal mainly rely on an essentialized “Woman” subject. This chapter discusses the detrimental practical implications of such conceptualizations as a source of global inequality within the current bordered configuration of the planet in the age of migrations. The chapter is articulated along four sections. The first section recalls the relevance of the gendered care structure as an essential category for theories of justice. The second section discusses the concept of group-based gender vulnerability and its limits. The third section engages with the contributions of counterhegemonic feminisms and proposes intersectionality as a key concept to reveal the gendered, racialized and bordered dimensions of social injustices at the global level. The fourth section analyzes a case study. Aiming at bridging theory and praxis, Spanish gender equality policy are analyzed to illustrate the practical implications of the conceptualizations discussed in the previous sections. The chapter shows that Spanish equality policies are exclusionary and reproduce vulnerability for exploited migrant women working in the care sector. Intersectionality is indicated as an indispensable category to make equality policies inclusive and advance towards gender justice at the global level.
