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Policing gender mobilities: interrogating the âfeminisation of migrationâ to Europe
This article proposes a gendered critique of the European Neighbourhood Policy, a framework that, amongst other things, aims to facilitate the mobility of migrants to the EU from the bordering countries. We highlight the ambivalences of European gender and migration regimes, and we take issue with the celebration of the âfeminisation of migrationâ. The former fails to offer opportunities to women to safely embark on autonomous migratory projects, the latter contributes to reproduce traditional gender biases in the countries of origin as well as of destination. We conclude by suggesting that the EU critique to emigration countries for failing to tackle womenâs discrimination is less than persuasive when assessed vis-ĂĄ-vis with the curtailment on womenâs independent mobility across European borders