Paper Titles & Abstracts

This paper looks at gender mainstreaming implementation in the context of horizontal policy coordination or policy coherence. It takes as a case study the Global Approach to Migration, which is a framework for the mainstreaming of migration issues into all of the EU's external activities, including development. It uses a combination of process tracing and critical frame analysis to find out how we can understand the interaction of gender mainstreaming with a series of competing crosscutting issues. Can gender not only survive mainstreaming competition, but also stay on the agenda throughout the complex interactions of policy coordination? It finds that most outputs are not gender mainstreamed: they are either gender blind, represent women migrants only in relation to trafficking in human beings, or have gender added on as a piecemeal after-thought. Gender has to compete with a growing number of other crosscutting issues, and actors do not necessarily perceive the relevance of gender to crosscutting frameworks such as GAMM. It concludes that gender falls through the gaps in institutional structures when policy sectors interact