ISSC GGD Progress Report November 2006



International Social Science Council Scientific Programme on

Gender, Globalization, and Democratization

Activity and Progress Report October 2008

Submitted by Jane Bayes, Director

Part I of this report lists the Objectives and Projects of the ISSC-GGD. Part II lists the activities of GGD during 2007-2008. Part III explains the organization and funding of the ISSC-GGD.

PART I : Objectives and Projects of the ISSC-GGD

In 2004 when the GGD was recognized as an ISSC Scientific Research Programme, the GGD set forth five objectives:

1) To offer a global organizational structure for scholars from different areas of the world and from different disciplines in the social sciences to perform collaborative research on the intersectionality of themes of gender, globalization and democratization.

2) To develop joint research projects to generate knowledge that can be used as a foundation for policy initiatives to improve the lives of women.

3) To provide an output of scholarly publications, workshop materials, syllabi, training manuals and course materials that can be shared globally on the internet or in other ways to address problems generated for women by globalization.

4) To establish an inclusive network of researchers working in the field of globalization and gender, one that reaches out to include young scholars and scholars from the majority world.

5) To collaborate with international, national, and local organizations, including other ISSC member organizations, to foster a long term research and training program on globalization, gender and democratization.

To accomplish these objectives, the ISSC-GGD in 2004 identified six projects or

special areas of concern:

1) Sexual Trafficking and Human Security

2) Women and Leadership Around the World

3) Migration and Gender

4) Globalization and the Changing Structure of the Family

5) Gender in the Global Political Economy

6) Education, Outreach, Capacity Building

PART II: List of Activities in 2007 and 2008

Publications, and Workshop Products associated with ISSC Projects

1) Mary Hawkesworth, ed. “Comparative Perspectives Symposium:

Challenges to Women’s Leadership” Signs :Journal of Women in

Culture and Society. Volume 34, Number 1. (Autumn 2008). This

publication is the product of an ISSC-GGD conference in Umea,

Sweden on women and leadership held in August 2007.

2) Nimalka Fernando, Setsuko Arai, Malaya Ileto eds. Human Trafficking

and Racism: Exploring the Links Between Marginalization and Exploitative Migration, IMADR, 2007.

3) Bang-Soon L. Yoon & Bok Hee Chun, "Migration of North Korean Women to

China and Human Security," The Korean Journal of Area Studies, Vol 24, No. 2

(2006), pp. 73-92.

4) Video CDs have been made of the talks and papers delivered at the Conference on

Globalization, Migration and Sex Trafficking at California State University,

Northridge for class use .

5) Video and audio recordings were made of the talks and papers delivered at the Conference on

Globalization, Gender, Migration and Sex Trafficking in Lima, Peru for class use.

(These are in Spanish.)

Conference and Workshop Activities

1) March 2007 : USA: Joint Conference with International Studies Association, Chicago, Ill.

(two panels)

2) May 2007: USA: Two day Conference on Globalization, Migration and Sex Trafficking at

California State University, Northridge, Northridge, CA.

3) July 19-21, 2007: Hungary:Two day conference on Gender in International Political Economy

(IPE), “Gender Knowledge and Knowledge Networks” in Budapest.

4) August 2007: Sweden: Two Day Conference on Women and Leadership. Umea, Sweden

organized by Gunnel Gustafsson.

5) August 2007. Rep. of Korea: Conference presentation: Bang-Soon L. Yoon, "State,

Sexual Violence, and Women's Civil Society Movement for Policy Development"

presented at the World Congress for Korean Studies 2007 organized by the Korean

Political Science Association, Busan, August 23-25, 2007.

6) August 2007: Japan: Chubu University co-sponsored with the Institute of

Social Studies of the Hague an International Conference on “International

Migration, Multilocal Livelihoods and Human Security: Perspectives from

Europe, Asia, and Africa” on, where Seiko Hanochi presented a paper on

“Neoliberal Globalization and the Insecurity of Women Migrants made Invisible:

Case Studies in Human Security as a ‘War of Position’ Strategy” which was based

on her interviews with the Filipinas. August 30-31.

7) September 2007. USA: Presentation on Women Leaders Project, American Political Science

Association Chicago, Ill. by Judith Palier, Irene Ortiz, and Jane Bayes.

8) 19 October 2007 : Peru: Workshop with 10 Peruvian teachers of Women’s Studies from different

parts of Perú with Breny Mendoza, Jane Bayes and Gaby Cevasco to discuss women’s studies curricula, course syllabi, bibliography, and strategies for the survival of women’s studies in the university, held at Flora Tristán Centre de la Mujer. Lima.

9) October 2007: Peru: Seminario Internacional: Nueves formas de resistencia frente a la

exclusión global: reflexiones sobre migración y trata. Lima, Perú. organized by Flora Tristán Centre de la Mujer. Lima

10) October 2007: Thailand: The Centre for Asia Pacific Partnership, Osaka University of

Economics and Law (Director, Mushakoji), on the occasion of an international symposium with Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok) organized a conference on “Mainstreaming Human Security: the Asian Contribution” including a panel on “Displacement and Exploitative Migration” which focused on trafficking in women and children..Bankok.

11) March 2008: USA: Joint meeting of ISSC-GGD with the International Studies

Association on Gender, Globalization and Human Trafficking. San Francisco.

12) July 2008: Spain: Joint meeting of ISSC-GGD on with 10º Congreso International Interdisciplinar sobre las Mujeres, Mundos de Mujeres/ Women’s Worlds 2008 on Gender, Migration and Human Trafficking . Madrid.

Other Activities

1) The Centre for Asia Pacific Parnership, Osaka University of Economics and Law

(Director, Mushakoji)is currently developing a comparative project on “marriage migrants from the Philippines and Vietnam to Korea and Japan with Songonghwe (Anglican) University of Seoul, the University of the Philippines and Hanoi University.

2) Those interested in women and leadership began a new project on women and leadership which involves interviewing women activists around the world. Jane Bayes and Judith Palier of San Juan College in New Mexico interviewed women leaders in Cuernavaca, MX in July 2007. Jane Bayes also interviewed in Canada in August 2007. Georgia Durst Lahti of Beloit College is interviewing women leaders in Albania in October and November 2007. Women in Peru have expressed interest. The purpose is to archive these interviews in a digital archive.

3) Jane Bayes and Breny Mendoza of California State University, Northridge met with ten women in the social sciences from various universities around Peru to discuss women studies programs as well as syllabi and curricula for gender courses and how to create and distribute them in Lima, Peru on 17 October 2007.

4) Another series of activities have been developed at the Centre for Asia Pacific

Partnership, at Osaka University of Economics and Law (Director, Mushakoji), by its

Research Committee On Human Security, Human Trafficking and Exploitative Migration.

The Centre developed activities in cooperation with IMADR (International Movement

Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism) and helped publish Nimalka Fernando,

Setsuko Arai, Malaya Ileto eds IMADR ed., Human Trafficking and Racism: Exploring the

Links Between Marginalization and Exploitative Migration, IMADR,2007.

PART III: Organization and Funding of the ISSC-GGD

The ISSC-GGD is a interdisciplinary group of scholars (representing the disciplines of political science, sociology, history, geography, psychology, and anthropology) from countries in both the majority and minority worlds ( Kenya, Senegal, Uganda, South Africa, Sweden, Netherlands, Germany, New Zealand, India, Japan, Vietnam, South Korea, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Chile, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Peru, Mexico, Canada, and the USA.) Our members range in age and experience from graduate students and young assistant professors to mid-career professors and senior scholars. Our administrative headquarters are at California State University, Northridge in Los Angeles, CA. USA.

The main steady source of funding for the ISSC-GGD since 2004, when the research committee was recognized as a research programme by the ISSC, has been from the ISSC iself. These monies have been supplemented by funds from GGD member’s universities ( such as California State University, Northridge, Umea University, Munster University, Chuba University, Osaka University, American University, University of Otago) for travel and specific projects and sometimes by grants from funding sources such as the European Union, the United States, Canada and Mexico governments, non-governmental organizations, and individuals. The ISSC money has served as seed money for many of our projects, enabling GGD and its members to raise additional support from a variety of other sources.

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