| dc.contributor.author | Baines, Erin K. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-21T12:35:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2000 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2000 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | AAINQ60663 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/55728 | |
| dc.description | In the past two decades, transnational advocates have successfully placed the issue of 'refugee women' on the agenda of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) with the aspiration of promoting gender equity within the organization's mandate. Yet despite these accomplishments, gender-related change in UNHCR institutions and field practices remains both slow and inconsistent. This discrepancy is indicative of a wider global pattern: women's movements and networks have lobbied for, and brought about, significant policy changes in international organizations, yet little progress has been made in bridging the gap between global promises and actual practices. This contradiction is not comprehensively addressed in feminist approaches to the study of global governance. Focusing on transnational activism and global structures, these approaches narrowly highlight 'external', global factors which condition the process of gender-related change. Organizational institutions and the role of 'internal' advocates are downplayed. Furthermore, feminist approaches to global governance generally fail to trace the linkages between global policies and local practices. As a result, the importance of global policy changes to women and men at the local level are often over-estimated while at the same time, national and local contexts are under-estimated. | en_US |
| dc.description | The thesis is premised on the view that a multi-level approach which links the global, national and local is essential to explain points of intersection or gaps between global policy and practices in the field. Further, both external and internal factors conditioning institutional and policy change in gender relations within international organizations is required. Hence, the thesis proposes a hybrid of conceptual approaches: feminist approaches to global political economy, transnational advocacy networks and gender studies of institutional change. A case study approach is then introduced to situate global strategies and policies in national and local contexts, and to consider how refugee, returnee and internally displaced women and men encounter and respond to global initiatives to promote gender equality. | en_US |
| dc.description | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 2000. | en_US |
| dc.language | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Dalhousie University | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | en_US |
| dc.subject | Political Science, International Law and Relations. | en_US |
| dc.title | The elusiveness of gender-related change in international organizations: Refugee women, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the political economy of gender. | en_US |
| dc.type | text | en_US |
| dc.contributor.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
