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Women and citizenship post-trafficking : the case of Nepal

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Date
01/05/2016
Author
Richardson, Diane
Laurie, Nina
Poudel, Meena
Townsend, Janet
Keywords
Citizenship
Feminism
Gender
Nepal
Post-trafficking
Sexuality
HM Sociology
J Political Science
Sociology and Political Science
NDAS
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Abstract
This article analyses the relationship between gender, sexuality and citizenship embedded in models of citizenship in the Global South, specifically in South Asia, and the meanings associated with having - or not having - citizenship. It does this through an examination of women's access to citizenship in Nepal in the context of the construction of the emergent nation state in the 'new' Nepal 'post-conflict'. Our analysis explores gendered and sexualized constructions of citizenship in this context through a specific focus on women who have experienced trafficking, and are beginning to organize around rights to sustainable livelihoods and actively lobby for changes in citizenship rules which discriminate against women. Building from this, in the final section we consider important implications of this analysis of post-trafficking experiences for debates about gender, sexuality and citizenship more broadly.
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Richardson , D , Laurie , N , Poudel , M & Townsend , J 2016 , ' Women and citizenship post-trafficking : the case of Nepal ' , The Sociological Review , vol. 64 , no. 2 , pp. 329-348 . https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-954X.12364
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The Sociological Review
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-954X.12364
ISSN
0038-0261
Type
Journal article
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Copyright 2016 The Authors. The Sociological Review published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of the Editorial Board of The Sociological Review. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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The research for this paper was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council – ESRC Res-062-23-1490: ‘Post Trafficking in Nepal: Sexuality and Citizenship in Livelihood Strategies’. Diane Richardson would like to acknowledge the support provided by the award of a Leverhulme TrustMajor Research Fellowship, ‘Transforming Citizenship: Sexuality, Gender and Citizenship Struggles’ [award MRF-2012-106].
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/10786

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