In this special issue an examination of the gendered implications of 'Fortress Europe', a methaphor for the closing of Europe's borders in the context of European unifcation. With the following articles: - Becoming the 'refugee': creation of a gendered subjectivity among male asylum seekers in Switzerland / by Anya Gass - 'Zijn Vlamingen dan ook niet goed geïntegreerd? Een kruispuntanalyse van integratievertogen in Vlaanderen vanuit het standpunt van moeders zonder papieren / by Tine Brouckaert - Gender and the integrationist turn': comparative perspectives on marriage migration in the UK and Sweden / by Suruchi Thapar-Björkert and Karin Borevi - Postcolonial queer critique in post-communist Europe: stuck in the Western progress narrative? / by Rasa Navickaite
This collection of essays shows much of the United States based transnational feminism and brings analyses of post-socialist cultural production into this theoretical conversation. The essays focus on illegal border crossing, forced econonomic migration, racism, trafficking, sexuality, women's agency and economic and social justice.