Professeur

Contact: jane.freedman@cnrs.fr

Thèmes de recherche:

– genre et rapports sociaux de sexe
– Genre et migrations
– Migrations forcées, réfugié-e-s et droit d’asile
– Persécutions liées au genre et réponses internationales
Genre et conflits armés
– « Gender mainstreaming » dans les organisations internationales

Publications:

Authored Books:
2015 Gendering the International Asylum and Refugee Debate, 2nd Edition Revised and Updated (including two additional chapters), Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
2015 Gender, Violence and Politics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Aldershot: Ashgate.
2007 Gendering the International Asylum and Refugee Debate, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 240pp.
2004 Immigration and Insecurity in France, Aldershot: Ashgate, 182pp.
2001 Feminism, Buckingham: Open University Press, 128pp.
1997 Femmes politiques: mythes et symboles, Paris: L’Harmattan (Collection Logiques Politiques), 290pp.

Edited Books :
2016 A Gendered Analysis of the Syrian Refugee “Crisis” (ed with Z. Kivilcim and N. Ozgur), London: Routledge (forthcoming).
2012 Engaging Men in the Fight against Gender-Based Violence: Case Studies from Africa (ed), New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 194pp.
2007 Femmes, Genre, Migrations et Mondialisation: Un état des problématiques, (ed with J. Falquet, A. Rabaud and F. Scrinzi), Paris: Cedref, 295pp.
2007 Persécutions des femmes : savoirs, mobilisations et protections (ed with J. Valluy), Paris : Editions du Croquant, 639pp.
2003 Gender and Insecurity: Migrant Women in Europe (ed), Aldershot: Ashgate, 199pp.
2000 Women, Immigration and Identities in France (ed with C. Tarr), Oxford: Berg, 197pp.

Chapters in Edited Volumes:
2016 Mainstreaming Gender in European Immigration and Asylum Policy, in H. MacRae and E.Weiner (eds), Towards Gendering Institutionalism: Equality in Europe in the New Millennium, Maryland, USA: Rowman and Littlefield.
2016 Asylum and Refugees, in J. Steans and D. Tepe-Belfrage (eds), Handbook of Gender in World Politics, Oxford : Edward Elgar.
2013 The Feminisation of Asylum Migration from Africa: Problems and Perspectives, in A. Kane and T. H. Leedy (eds), African Migration: Patterns and Perspectives, Indiana University Press, pp.211-229.
2013 Taking Gender Seriously in Asylum and Refugee Policies, in K. Khory (ed), Global Migration: Challenges in the 21st Century, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.45-65.
2012 Une violence « invisible » : les violences des femmes pendant les conflits armés et les (non)-réactions des organisations internationales face à ces violences, in C. Cardi and G. Pruvost (eds), Penser la violence des femmes, Paris : La Découverte, pp. 330-341.
2012 A Gendered Protection for the “Victims” of War: Mainstreaming Gender in Refugee Protection, in A. Kronsell et E. Svedberg (eds), Making Gender, Making War, London and New York: Routledge, pp.121-135.
2011 Immigration and Trade Unions in France: The “Problem” of the Sans-Papiers, in Pajares, M. and Jubany, O. (eds) Sindicatos e Inmigración en Europa: 1999-2010: Análisis Comparativo de las dinámicas y acciones de los sindicatos en Europa, Series Análisis Contemporáneo: Icaria Antrazyt Ediciones, pp.
2008 The French “Sans-Papiers” Movement: An Unfinished Struggle?, in W. Pojman (ed), Migration and Activism in Europe, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 81-99.
2008 Une analyse « genrée » des politiques européennes de l’asile, in C. Audebert et E. Ma Mung (eds), Les migrations internationales : enjeux contemporains et questions nouvelles, Bilbao : Université de Deusto (Humanitarian Net), pp. 257-269.
2008 Genre et migration forcée : les femmes exilées en Europe, in J. Falquet, A.Rabaud, J. Freedman and F. Scrinzi (eds), Femmes, Genre, Migrations et Mondialisation: Un état des problématiques, Paris : CEDREF, pp. 169-189.
2007 (with J. Valluy), Persécutions genrées des femmes, in J. Freedman and J. Valluy (eds), Persécutions des femmes : savoirs mobilisations et protections, Paris : Editions du Croquant, pp. 7-31.
2007 Droit d’asile pour les femmes persecutées : la Convention de Genève revisitée ?, in J. Freedman and J. Valluy (eds), Persécutions des femmes : savoirs mobilisations et protections, Paris : Editions du Croquant, pp. 451-506.
2006 The Headscarf Debate: Muslim Women in Europe and the “War on Terror”, in K. Hunt and K. Rygiel (eds), Engendering the War on Terror: War Stories and Camouflage Politics, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 169-190.
2006 (with L. Mazdon) Un repli sur lui-même du débat public, in G. Lochard (ed), Les débats publics dans les télévisions européennes, Paris : L’Harmattan, pp. 101-133.
2005 (avec N. Poku) State Responses to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic, in U. Engel et G. R. Olsen (eds), Understanding the African Exception, Aldershot: Ashgate.
2003 Introduire le genre dans le débat sur l’asile politique: l’insecurité croissante pour les femmes réfugiées en Europe, in M. Hersent and C. Zaidman (eds), Genre, Travail et Migration en Europe, Paris: CEDREF, pp. 61-79.
2003 Selling Sex : Trafficking, Prostitution and Sex Work Amongst Migrant Women in Europe, in J. Freedman (ed), Gender and Insecurity: Migrant Women in Europe, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 119-138.
2002 Women in the European Parliament, in K. Ross (ed), Women, Politics and Change, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 179-190.
2001 L’affaire des foulards: Defining a feminist anti-racist strategy in French schools, in K. Blee et F. Twine (ed), Feminism and Anti-Racism: International Struggles, New York: New York University Press, pp. 295-313.
2000 Women in the European Parliament: Uniting and representing women’s interests?, in B. Axford, D. Berghahn et N. Hewlett (ed), Unity and Diversity in the New Europe, Bern: Peter Lang.
2000 Immigrant and ethnic minority women in Contemporary France, in U. Tidd et A. Gregory (eds), Women in Contemporary France, Oxford: Berg.
2000 Women and Immigration: Nationality and Citizenship, in J. Freedman et C. Tarr (eds), Women, Immigration and Identities in France. Oxford: Berg, pp. 13-28.
2000 Fin-de-siècle feminism: Le Mouvement pour la parité, in K. Chadwick et T. Unwin (eds), New Perspectives on the Fin-de-Siècle in France. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press. pp. 75-95.

Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals:
2016 Sexual and Gender-Based Violence against Refugee Women : A Hidden Aspect of the Refugee ’Crisis’ », Reproductive Health Matters, 24, 47, pp.18-26.
2016 Engendering Security at the Borders of Europe : Women Migrants and the Mediterranean ’Crisis’ », Journal of Refugee Studies, http://jrs.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/04/13/jrs.few019.abstract?keytype=ref&ijkey=rIz2raCWXT194cK
2014 Genre, justice et droit pénal international, Cahiers du Genre, 57, pp. 39-45.
2014 Treating sexual violence as a «business» : Reflections on national and international responses to sexual and gender-based violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Advances in Gender Research, 18, pp. 125-145.
2012 Analysing the Gendered Insecurities of Migration: A Case Study of Female Sub-Saharan African Migrants in Morocco, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 14, 1, pp. 36-55.
2011 Explaining Sexual Violence and Gender Inequalities in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Peace Review, 23, 2, pp. 170-175.
2011 The Réseau Education Sans Frontières : Reframing the Campaign against the Deportation of Migrants, Citizenship Studies, 15, 5, pp.613-626.
2010 Les mobilisations féministes autour du droit d’asile : des normes internationales au droit national, Nouvelles Questions Féministes, 29, 1, pp.48-72.
2010 Mainstreaming Gender in Refugee Protection, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 23, 4, pp. 589-607.
2010 Les résolutions internationales contre les violences faites aux femmes : un outil pour la protection ?, Science and Video, 2, available at : http://scienceandvideo.mmsh.univ-aix.fr/numeros/2/Pages/Freedman.aspx.
2010 Protecting Women Asylum Seekers and Refugees: From International Norms to National Protection?, International Migration, 48, 1, pp. 175-198.
2009 Mobilising Against Detention and Deportation: Collective Actions Against the Detention and Deportation of “Failed” Asylum Seekers in France, French Politics, 7, 3-4, pp. 342-358.
2009 Women, Migration and Activism in Europe, Amnis, available at http://www.univ-brest.fr/amnis/documents/Freedman2008.pdf.
2008 Nouvelles mobilisations autour de l’asile: le cas des persécutions spécifiques aux femmes, Asylon(s), 5, septembre 2008, available at http://terra.rezo.net/article812.html.
2008 Women Seeking Asylum: The Politics of Gender in the Asylum Determination Process, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 10, 2, pp. 154-172.
2008 Women’s Right to Asylum: Protecting the Rights of Female Asylum Seekers in Europe?, Human Rights Review, 9, 4, pp. 413-433.
2007 Women, Islam and Rights in Europe: Beyond a Universalist/Culturalist Dichotomy, Review of International Studies, 33, 1, pp. 29-44.
2006 Citizenship, Identity and Borders in an Enlarging Europe, Parliamentary Affairs, 59, 4, pp. 709-712.
2005 The Socio-Economic context of AIDS in Africa (with N. Poku), Review of International Studies, 31, 4, pp. 665-686.
2005 HIV/AIDS in Rural India: Context and Health Care Needs (with S. Pallikadavath, L. Garda, H. Apte and W. Stones), Journal of Biosocial Science, 37, 5, pp. 641-655.
2004 Secularism as a barrier to integration: The French Dilemma, International Migration, 42, 3, pp. 4-27.
2002 Women in the European Parliament, Parliamentary Affairs, 55, 1, pp. 179-190.
2002 Violence Against Asylum Seeking Women in Europe, Fempower (Journal of the European WAVE Network), 5, pp. 9-16.
1999 Parité as a mobilizing myth in the French feminist movement’, Women in French Studies, 7, pp.237-249.
1998 Les hazards d’être femme en politique’, Modern and Contemporary France, 6, 3, pp.
1997 Dominaçao simbolica no ambito politico: As representacoes das mulheres politicas na Gra-Bretanha et França, Cultura Vozes (Brésil), 91, 2, pp.54-69.
1997 Can Women Tranform Politics? Women’s Demands for Equal Representation as a Catalyst for Institutional Change, Contemporary Political Studies, 191, 1, pp. 457-468.

Other Articles :
2009 En France, quelle protection pour les victimes de persécutions liées au genre ?, in ProAsile (Revue de l’association France Terre d’Asile), mars 2009.
2008 Persécutions des femmes, in Mémoires (Revue trimestrielle d’information de l’Association Primo Levi), 47, mars 2008, pp. 4-5.

Reports:
2009 Report for UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Female Asylum-Seekers and Refugees in France, June 2009, PPLAS/2009/01, available at: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4a535e112.html
2008 Report for the Euromed Human Rights Network (EMHRN), Violence Against Migrant Women in the Euro-Med Region, available at: http://www.emhrn.net/usr/00000026/00000027/00000029/00000157/00002892.pdf
2006 Report for the Mairie de Paris, L’accueil des femmes demandeuses d’asile et réfugiées à Paris.
2000 Report for the European Union, DGV, Assessment of the results of the European elections in terms of women’s participation and factors influencing the 1999 results.

Selected Conference Presentations and Invited Lectures:
2014 International Interventions and the ‘Crisis’ of Gender-Based Violence in Conflict, paper presented at the International Feminist Journal of Politics Conference, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, 9-11 May 2014.
2012 Invited key note lecture on European asylum law and policy, European Studies Institute, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan, 20 February 2012.
2010 Une violence « invisible » : les violences des femmes pendant les conflits armés et les (non)-réactions des organisations internationales face à ces violences, paper presented at a conference on Penser les violences des femmes, Université de Paris 7, 17-18 June 2010.
2010 Analysing the Gendered Insecurities of Migration: A Study of Gender-Related Insecurities in Female Migration to the European Union, paper presented at a conference on Critical Perspectives on Security, University of Maastricht, Netherlands, 27 – 28 May 2010.
2010 Taking Gender Seriously in Asylum and Refugee Policies, invited paper presented at an international conference on Global Challenges: Migration, Mount Holyoke College, Massachussetts, USA, 5-6 March 2010.
2010 Invited lecture on gender and asylum at Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachussetts, USA, 4 March 2010.
2010 Gender, migration and « security » in Europe : Protecting women’s rights or creating new insecurities ?, paper presented at the International Studies Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, USA, 15-17 February 2010.
2009 Analysing the Gendered Insecurities of Migration: A Case Study of Female Sub-Saharan African Migrants in Morocco, paper presented at conference on Genre en Mouvement, Université de Paris VII, 30 September – 1 October 2009.
2009 Taking Gender Seriously in Forced Migration in and from Africa: Continuing Obstacles to Understanding and Action, invited key note lecture, Humboldt University, Berlin, 24 September 2009.
2009 Integrating gender in European Refugee Policy, paper presented at ECPR General Conference, Potsdam, Germany, 10-12 September 2009.
2009 Asylum denied : Refusing international protection to the victims of wartime rape, paper presented at conference Les viols en temps de guerre : une histoire à écrire, Paris, 11-13 May 2009.
2009 Advocating for Women’s Right to Asylum : An analysis of campaigns in support of the rights of women asylum seekers and refugees in Europe, paper presented at the International Political Studies Association conference, Santiago, Chile, 12 – 17 July 2009.
2009 International Protection for the Victims of Sexual Violence in Conflict?, paper presented at the ISA Convention, New York, USA, 15-18 February 2009.
2009 Gender in the Euromed Policies and Relations, European Conference on Politics and Gender, Queen’s University Belfast, UK, 21-23 January 2009.
2008 Gender and Violence in the Globalized World, invited lecture at the University of Essex, Colchester, UK, 20 November 2008.
2008 Gender Mainstreaming in Refugee Protection, paper presented at an international conference, The War Question for Feminism, Orebro, Sweden, 22-23 September 2008.
2008 The “feminisation” of asylum: Asylum as a new migratory strategy for women and transnational responses, paper presented at international conference, Genre et Stratégies Transnationales, Paris, 18-20 September 2008.
2008 Taking Gender-Related Persecution Seriously in EU Asylum Systems? Expert paper presented at the World Social Forum on Migration as part of a joint European project “European Cooperation for an Effective Response to the Necessities of Gender Violence Persecution”, Madrid, 12 September 2008.
2008 Protecting the victims of trafficking in the Mediterranean Region: Are the New Policies Really Working?, paper presented at ISA Research Committee on Sociology of Migration Inter Congress Meeting: The Mediterranean: between passage, movement, settlement and detention, Aix-en-Provence, 4-6 June 2008.
2008 Protecting the Rights of Female Migrants in the Euro-Med Region, expert paper presented at a conference on Strengthening Civil Society and Gender Equality in the Euromed Region, Bonn 2-3 June 2008.
2008 Gender as a factor in refugee status determination: The example of the European Union, paper presented at conference on Best Practice for Refugee Status Determination, Prato, Italy, 29-30 May 2008.
2008 The Feminisation of Asylum Migration from Africa: Problems and Perspectives, invited lecture at international conference, Migrations In and Out of Africa: Old Patterns and New Perspectives, University of Florida, USA, 15-16 February 2008.
2008 Mobilising Against Deportation: The collective action of “failed” asylum seekers in France and the UK, paper presented at international conference on Collective Action and Social Exclusion, ENS Lyon, 11-12 January 2008.
2007 The Réseau Education Sans Frontières: A New Form of Collective Action?, paper presented at the ECPR general conference, Pisa, Italy, 6-8 September 2007.
2007 Gender and Asylum in Europe, paper presented at the ECPR general conference, Pisa, Italy, 6-8 September 2007.
2007 La criminalisation des demandeurs d’asile: une étude comparative des politiques de détention/rétention en France et en Grande-Bretagne, paper presented at international conference on La fabrique de populations problématiques par les politiques publiques, Nantes, 13- 15 June 2007.
2006 Les campagnes contre les persécutions spécifiques aux femmes : des normes internationales aux mobilisations nationales, paper presented at conference on Les nouvelles mobilisations nationales et internationales, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Aix, October 2006.
2006 Nouvelles mobilisations associatives autour de l’asile politique, paper presented at the Association Française de Sociologie, annual conference, Bordeaux, 5-7 September 2006.
2006 Une analyse « genrée » des politiques européennes de l’asile, paper presented at conference, Vingt ans de recherche sur les migrations internationales, Migrinter, Université de Poitiers, July 2006.
2005 Invited lecture by Axson-Johnson Foundation for the Social Sciences, Sweden, on “The relevance of feminism in global politics”, Stockholm, February 2005.
2004 Women, Islam and Rights in Europe, paper presented at the BISA Gendering IR group conference, University of Surrey, April 2004.
2004 Gender and Political Representation in an Integrating Europe, ECPR conference on European Integration and Enlargement, Bologna, June 2004.
2003 Legislating for Equality – the Limits of Constitutional Reform in Increasing Women’s Representation, paper presented at ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Edinburgh, March 2003.
2002 Migrants in Europe: A Right to Health?, Conference on Migration and Health organised by QMW Centre for Migration and the Barts and the London NHS Trust, June 2002.
2002 Gender, Migration and Citizenship: The Case of France, PSA Annual Conference, Aberdeen, April 2002.