Girlhood in Migration: New Directions in Inter-Disciplinary Research

This project brings together inter-disciplinary scholars from a newly formed Girlhood in Migration Network to develop a comprehensive and coordinated interdisciplinary, international research agenda on girlhood in migration. Although available research explores gendered migration for adults, few academics address girlhood in this context and several theoretical, methodological and ethical questions remain underexplored.  Further, migration research has largely been discipline-specific resulting in missed opportunities for integrated knowledge and practice development.  Key unanswered interdisciplinary questions include:  How should we study girlhood in migration and its intersections with age, racialisation, sexuality and other identity positions? What are commonalities in responses to girls in forced migration and how do they differ? How can we ethically bring together scholars from the Global North and Global South to identify tensions and commonalities and develop new knowledge? What methodologies would best promote ethical participation of migrant girls in the production of knowledge?