Lesson 4.1: Anti-Gender Politics and Displacement
In many contexts, ‘anti-gender’ mobilisations ; create conditions that drive people to leave. Rising hostility, shrinking civic space, criminalisation, targeted repression, and violent attacks have compelled queer, trans, feminist, and LGBTIQ+ people to seek safety elsewhere. At the same time, anti-gender rhetoric shapes border and asylum regimes, influencing who is recognised as deserving of protection — and under what conditions.
3. Border Violence: Camps, Illegal Pushbacks, Structural Racism
As the RESIST Exile Report (p.5) notes, “anti-gender’ experiences continue
through complex migration processes, illegal pushbacks, and poor conditions in refugee camps, along with everyday and structural racism in host countries.
In other words, migration regimes not only extend ‘anti-gender’ violence across borders; by creating and militarising borders, they enact ‘anti-gender’ violence on people crossing them.
Some participants travelled via fellowships or visas; others were forced to use dangerous and criminalised routes. These journeys exposed many to risks to their lives, assault, detention, and systematic humiliation.
In the arrival camps, they humiliate you so much […] you feel like a bug. (Exile Report, p. 9)
Requests for protection were often met with apathy.
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