The Gender, Borders, Violence Research Hub
The Gender, Borders, Violence Research Hub brings together researchers and stakeholders who are committed to evidence based policy change and advocacy around the intersection of migration, borders and gendered violence. We focus on advocating for women’s safety as a national and international priority.
Recent news
Special Issue: Care Work, Intimate Labour, Migration and Exploitation
The Conversation: How will the government’s new immigration policy cause more trauma for victim-survivors of domestic violence
Blueprint for Reform: Securing Safety for Victims and Survivors of Domestic and Family Violence on Temporary Visas
Upcoming events
16 Days of Activism Against Gendered Violence
Ensure Justice, Protect Survivors, End Impunity
This is a call for blog post contributions as part of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gendered Violence. Focusing on genders, borders and violence, welcome empirical contributions and policy analysis from academics, advocates and practitioners.
Webinar:
Care Work, Intimate Labour, Migration and Exploitation
Organised by the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, this webinar will bring together contributors to the Special Issue - Care Work, Intimate Labour, Migration and Exploitation, to discuss existing and emerging aspects of domestic/care work and intimate labout.
Recent publications
Family violence and women’s deaths by suicide: A Victorian study
Women’s deaths by suicide in the context of family violence victimisation represent an important but often overlooked dimension of gender-based violence. Coroners and researchers in Australia and internationally are increasingly drawing attention to the intersection between women’s lived experiences of family violence and their heightened risk of suicide. Currently, suicides related to family violence, including women’s death by suicide in this context, are inconsistently counted in national statistics, obscuring the scale of the issue and limiting opportunities for targeted prevention and intervention.
Drawing on the views of a small group of experts, this report aims to offer insights to inform better understandings of the risk of suicide among women who have experienced family violence victimisation and opportunities to support investigative processes to account for the relationship between family violence and women’s deaths by suicide in Victoria.
Current research
Domestic & Family Violence and Border-related Harm
This project aims to explore how Australia's migration system intersects with the experience of domestic and family violence for temporary visa holders.