This book addresses a gap in both contemporary theorising and empirical analysis of the European Union’s (EU) law and policy frameworks on migration, sex work and anti trafficking. Drawing on the authors’ previous research on these policies and with their practical experience of engaging with various EU institutions in law and policy-making fora around gender, equality and justice, the work examines the processes involved in constructing and enacting policy frameworks and legal interventions on these issues, within a feminist analytical framework. The authors map how EU agenda-setting operates, and detail the roles that various EU institutions, external groups and actors, including non-governmental organisations, play in promoting or blocking policy on these three issues. The book draws on feminist theorising on gender, policy-making and social justice to develop a general theoretical framework to help us understand how and why a consensus has seemingly been achieved at EU level on what constitutes gender equality in these three policy areas. The book presents a valuable resource for academics, researchers and policy makers in Law, Migration, EU policy making and Gender Studies.
Author(s): Sharron FitzGerald, Jane Freedman
Series: Routledge Studies in Law and Humanity
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 159
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
1 Where is the justice in gender equality policy?
2 Mapping a short history of EU gender equality law and policies
3 Gender in EU migration policies
4 The EU and sex work: how the Swedish model has prevailed
5 The emergence of sex trafficking as a gender equality issue in the EU
Concluding remarks
Index
