The Council of Europe has invited a Swansea University academic to address an international roundtable on Women and Migration at the Ukrainian Parliament – the Verkhovna Rada – in Kiev this week.
Professor Heaven Crawley, Director of Swansea University’s Centre for Migration Policy Research, has been asked to address delegates on three separate occasions during the two-day event, which takes place on May 20 and 21.
She will give a general overview of gender issues in international migration, introduce ideas relating to gender mainstreaming in migration policies and provide an introduction to gender-sensitive asylum policy and practice in Europe.
Professor Crawley is a founder member of the Refugee Women’s Legal Group which successfully campaigned for the introduction of gender-sensitive asylum policies in the UK context.
Professor Crawley, who is based within the University’s School of the Environment and Society, said: “The feminisation of international migration flows have been increasingly acknowledged over the past two decades but the implications for policy and practice have yet to be fully appreciated.
“I am delighted to be invited by the Council of Europe to address key representatives in the Ukraine responsible for policies relating to migrant women or working with them. This will provide an opportunity to share what we already know from existing research about the circumstances in which women migrate and to learn from delegates about the particular gender issues arising in this context.”
For more information on the Centre for Migration Policy Research at Swansea University visit http://www.swansea.ac.uk/cmpr/.
The Council of Europe, based in Strasbourg, covers virtually the entire European continent, with its 47 member countries. Founded on May 5, 1949, by 10 countries, the Council of Europe seeks to develop common and democratic principles based on the European Convention on Human Rights and other reference texts on the protection of individuals. For further information visit http://www.coe.int/.
