Gender

Question 1

What do we mean by gender

Answer 1

cultural understanding rather than biological

Question 2

Why is looking at gender culturally, problematic

Answer 2

• assumes a clear binary opposition between male and female with possibility for alternative gender categories
• therefore, it closes off consideration of alternatives, non-binary, gender categories
• Fails to recognise that even the physical (e.g genitalia) are understood in culturally– specific terms.

Question 3

What is power?

Answer 3

Strongly gendered, also often intersects with hierarchies of power built around age

Question 4

Gendering of labour

Answer 4

• who does which type of work
• how does nationality intersect with gender?
• how might class and ethnicity intersect with gender

Question 5

LGBT

Answer 5

Increasingly recognised in relation to dear of persecution

Question 6

Gender and vulnerability

Answer 6

o Vulnerability as an inherent property of (certain) persons (i.e. vulnerable as a woman, gay man, transgender person, etc VS vulnerable due to socio-cultural, political and economic conditions;
o Is it viable, therefore, to have pre-determined categories of ‘vulnerable people’?

Question 7

o The Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement scheme identifies the following categories of priorities for resettlement:

Answer 7

 have medical needs;
 have survived violence and torture;
 are women at risk;
 are children in a situation that makes them particularly vulnerable;
 have legal or physical protection needs;
 do not have local integration prospects; or
 are elderly in a situation that makes them particularly vulnerable