We are very happy to announce that today the PEARL project starts! PEARL is an Erasmus+ KA220 Youth project that aims to equip young migrants with the skills to use novel digital democracy tools to spearhead their democratic participation and increase the capacity of non-profit organisations and public authorities staff to promote migrant youth participation […]
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The Journal of Homosexuality has just published “There is LGBTQ Life beyond the Big City”: Discourses, Representations and Experiences in Two Medium-Sized Spanish Cities, a research article by Olga Jubany, Josan Langarita, and Jordi Mas. Abstract: Whilst debates on sexual diversity in public space have been extensive, these have tended to focus on large cities as the […]
Professor Olga Jubany, coordinator of the GENI research group, has recently published the chapter The Unspoken Legacy of Asylum Racism, Nationalism, and the Neo‐colonialist Social Construction of Asylum Policies within The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism, published by Wiley. The chapter analyses the asylum phenomenon from the perspective of the social construction of otherness, and […]
Rosa María Frasquet, a member of GENI, has been interviewed for an article in El Periódico in which she discussed the effects of the COVID-19 confinement regarding domestic coexistence and the situation for women
The Universities of Girona and of Barcelona hosted the kick-off meeting of the EC-funded project Let’sGoByTalking. Protecting and defending the rights of anti-LGBT hate crimes: Innovative paths through restorative justice, which is coordinated by Olga Jubany. Members of the project’s consortium, from diverse European universities and organisations, visited Barcelona for two days of debates, decisions and […]
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 […]
A new article titled Interseccionalidad del género y mercado de trabajo postfordista by GENI members Rosa Lázaro and Olga Jubany has been published in La Ventana. The article analyses the different oppression and privilege systems related to gender, class or origin, experimented by women who participate in temporary work programs. The empirical data comes from ethnographic research, relying onintersectionality […]