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Traumatic Masculinities: The Gendered Geographies of Georgian IDPs from Abkhazia (Research Summary) May 26, 2011 Traumatic masculinities refer to the changing gender roles, decreased ability for men to be breadwinners, and processes of demasculinization that Georgian IDPs (internally displaced people) are... Education, Research Support, Gender	Islamic Revival in the Post-Soviet Space: the Case of Tatar Muslim Women in the Central Russian Republic of Tatarstan (Research Summary) May 26, 2011 Focusing specifically on women’s negotiation of ethnic and religious identities, this research analyzes the relationship between ethnic and religious revival in Tatarstan and examines... Education, Research Support, Gender
Russian Law Enforcement’s Implementation of Anti-Trafficking Laws (Research Summary) May 26, 2011 In December 2003, Russia passed laws criminalizing human trafficking. This project traces the process by which law enforcement agents have adapted to and implemented these new laws by exploring... Education, Research Support, Gender	Under a Red Veil? Soviet Interventions Towards the “Emancipation” of Afghan Women, c. 1980-1988 (Research Summary) May 26, 2011 This presentation draws on research conducted into the files of the Committee for Soviet Women (CSW) as well as the Communist Youth League (Komsomol) in order to investigate how the Soviet Union... Education, Research Support, Gender
Parodic Male Societies in Russian Culture (Research Summary) May 26, 2011 This project is an analysis of prominent semi-dissident Russian male societies, whose main features are self-mockery, parody, a certain level debauchery (drinking, eating, smoking, laziness, etc... Education, Research Support, Gender	Normalized, But Not “Natural”: Single Motherhood and the Gender Crisis in Post-Soviet Russia (Research Summary) May 26, 2011 Through understanding the normalization of single motherhood in Russia as an unfortunate fact of the status quo and by taking the “gender crisis” that single mothers and other... Education, Research Support, Gender
Women’s Rights and Law Enforcement in the Post-Soviet World May 26, 2011 This project examines how judges and police deal with women’s rights cases in the post-Soviet world. More specifically, it explores why judges and police violate authoritarian legal codes... Education, Research Support, Gender	Engendering Czech Healthcare Migration: How migration activities increase women's agency in global labor markets (Research Summary) May 26, 2011 This research, based on ethnographic fieldwork in the Czech Republic, examines global healthcare migration and how it provides East European women with better opportunities for income and social... Education, Research Support, Gender
2011 Title VIII Regional Policy Symposium Participant Biographies March 28, 2011 2011 Title VIII Regional Policy Symposium: Gender in the 21st Century Eastern Europe and Eurasia Biographies Education, Research Support, Gender	2009 Regional Policy Symposium: Prospects and Challenges for the First Post-Communist Generation: Young People Today in Eurasia and Eastern Europe April 6, 2009 On April 1 - 3, 2009, IREX, in collaboration with the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (WWC), hosted its Ninth Annual Regional Policy Symposium in... Higher Education Development, Education, Research Support