Abstract
This chapter draws on “assemblage thinking” to understand how the
gendered state relates in seemingly contradictory ways to its citizens
going overseas as temporary labor migrants. Using Sri Lanka as an
illustrative case, the chapter presents the argument that there are
three distinct but interrelated gendered state assemblages: regulatory
gendered state assemblages, protective gendered state assemblages,
and brokerage gendered state assemblages. Thus, migration flows are
sustained while acknowledging and attempting to address gendered
harm. The particular configuration of power relations within the
constitutive elements of the assemblage helps to produce the gendered
state, which, in turn, produces and reproduces gender.
gendered state relates in seemingly contradictory ways to its citizens
going overseas as temporary labor migrants. Using Sri Lanka as an
illustrative case, the chapter presents the argument that there are
three distinct but interrelated gendered state assemblages: regulatory
gendered state assemblages, protective gendered state assemblages,
and brokerage gendered state assemblages. Thus, migration flows are
sustained while acknowledging and attempting to address gendered
harm. The particular configuration of power relations within the
constitutive elements of the assemblage helps to produce the gendered
state, which, in turn, produces and reproduces gender.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Revisiting Gendered States |
| Subtitle of host publication | Feminist Imaginings of the State in International Relations |
| Place of Publication | New York USA |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Chapter | 6 |
| Pages | 85-101 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780190644062 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780190644031 |
| Publication status | Published - 2018 |
Keywords
- assemblage
- migration
- labor
- Sri Lanka
- development