The cover features Ana Teresa Fernández’s Borrando la Frontera (Erasing the border)
The Spring 2018 issue of Signs is a special issue on Displacement, edited by Denise Horn and Serena Parekh. As the editors write in their introduction, the issue at once addresses the urgent “global refugee crisis” and seeks to “underst[and] displacement as a larger phenomenon.” “In our view,” Horn and Parekh say, “displacement should not be understood as merely a recent phenomenon but as part and parcel of the human experience.” The issue is organized into four broad themes: displacement and gendered labor, displacement in literature and art, displacement embodied, and displacement explored through new methods and theories. The articles collected in the issue attest to the need for feminist analyses of displacement in all its complexity and diversity.
Table of Contents
Introduction to Displacement
Denise M. Horn and Serena Parekh
Gendered Labor and Displacement
Gendered Border Regimes and Displacements: The Case of Filipina Sex Workers in Asia
Maria Cecilia Hwang
“Someone Kept Sacrificing”: Disentangling Gender Ideology in Immigrant Narratives of Social Reproduction
Amrita Hari
Resilience, Female Altruism, and Bodily Autonomy: Disaster-Induced Displacement in Post-Haiyan Philippines
Maria Tanyag
Displacement in Art and Literature
Feminist Refugee Epistemology: Reading Displacement in Vietnamese and Syrian Refugee Art
Yến Lê Espiritu and Lan Duong
Re-membering Displacement: Miral al-Tahawy’s Brooklyn Heights and the Politics of Memory
Katie Logan
Displacement Embodied
Trans-Migrations: Agency and Confinement at the Limits of Sovereignty
Martha Balaguera
Defining the Other to Masculinize Oneself: Syrian Men’s Negotiations of Masculinity during Displacement in Egypt
Magdalena Suerbaum
Gender and Age in the Construction of Male Youth in the European Migration “Crisis”
Lesley Pruitt, Helen Berents, and Gayle Munro
Theorizing Displacement
Struggles over Land, Livelihood, and Future Possibilities: Reframing Displacement through Feminist Political Ecology
Laura Vaz-Jones
Welcoming Refugees: Mindful Citizenship and the Political Responsibility of Hospitality
Jade Larissa Schiff