Local Matters: the significance of neighbourhoods and social infrastructure for the social inclusion of young people in European cities We are happy to anounce that the results of the project Citispyce are now available in a new publication, Local Matters: the significance of neighbourhoods and social infrastructure for the social inclusion of young people in European […]
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Today, June 20, World Refugee Day, Miguel Pajares, member of GENI and President of the Catalan Commission for Refugees (Comissió Catalana d’Ajuda al Refugiact – CCAR), reminds us about the importance of extending refugee reception policies beyond emergency measures. You can read the full article here (in Catalan) and here (in Spanish)
Yesterday took place the pre-conference “Migraciones y Refugiados LGBTTTI en un mundo globalizado” organised previous to the 36th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association which is taking place in Barcelona from today, 23 of May to Friday 26. The event was organised by the Sexualities Section of LASA and […]
On 17 May, International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, our colleague Jordi Mas will speak about how to prevent and combat LGBTphobia through the results of the project Divercity at the last session of the Conferences on Gender, Health and Equality, organized by the Commission on Equality of Universitat de Barcelona.
The 22 of May GENI and the LASA Sexualities Section organise the LASA 2018 preconference “Migrations and refugees LGBTTTI, in a globalized world” The session will take place at the Sala Gran (Facultat de Geografia i Història – UB) at 9:30h
Our colleague Diana Mata Codesal, has recently published “Gendered (Im)mobility: Rooted Women and Waiting Penelopes” in the Journal of Migration and Culture. The article explores (im)mobility as a gendered social construction: In rural Mexico, as in many other locations worldwide, women’s mobility is depicted as less natural or more problematic than men’s. Simultaneously, women are […]
Yesterday, the Aula Magna of the Facultat de Geografia i Història hosted the session ‘Más allá del feminismo blanco, una aproximación feminista decolonial a problemáticas actuales’, organised by the Casa Iberoamericana de la Mujer and GENI. Sirin Adlbi, Úrsula Santa Cruz, Diana Al-Rahmoun and Florencia Brizuela engaged us with compelling and challenging contributions. For those […]
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Every year the l’Institut de Drets Humans de Catalunya (IDHC) organises the course on Human Rights from the 9th to the 26th of April. This year, among the many and great speakers the course will host conferences by the GENI coordinator, Olga Jubany, and our colleague Eunice Romero, on the 23rd and 12th of April […]
We are pleased to announce that the book Las Palabras son Armas. Discurso de odio en la red by Olga Jubany and Malin Roiha has been published. Based on ethnographic research on the experience of youngsters as the main users of social networks, the book analyses the widespread and rabid presence of hate speech on the […]