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The aim of the course is to develop students’ knowledge of gender perspective on contemporary migration and refugee mobilites in Central and Eastern Europe and the European Union. We will pay a special attention on the transformation of family and gender roles in migration, transnational care practices and interesectionality in migration studies. We will focus on feminist migration studies which are not limited just to a descriptive account of the different gendered experience of women and men with migration: they go further and analyse the structural inequalities that are behind the everyday experience of migrants: migration policies, production of (il)legality, practices of surveillance and control, securitization, biopolitics of migration, political economy of waiting, international migration regime and its contradictions; structures of gender inequalities and care and transnational social rights´ gap and development.