Possible themes for PhD projects in this research area are:

• Gender and Migration in Transnational Space: What impact does the feminization of migration have on gender relations in countries of origin and destination? In what way is the asymmetric distribution of care work, which is at the core of the gender-specific division of work, influenced by migration processes? What impact do flexibilization and de-/retraditionalization have on transnational educational biographies and career paths?
• Gender, Migration, and Education: How are transnational biographies and family networks shaped, and how are they related to traditional gender orders? What gender-specific consequences do transnational education processes have on female and male migrants in a cross-generational comparison?
• Gender Equity in a Transnational Context: What role do the law and legal regulations play in the achievement of gender equity as well as its normative legitimation? Where can we identify lines of conflict in theses debates? How, in the context of the European Union, has transnational cooperation developed at the legislation level, and what does this mean for debates in the context of international institutions? Do (or how do) shifts in norms affect gender relations in different societies and social contexts?
• Gender Equity and Social Movements: How are processes of norm formation with respect to gender relations (critique of heteronormativity, recognition of ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity, etc.) advanced in social movements within and outside of Europe, and what controversies does this lead to with respect to new norms and their widespread acceptance?
• Gender and the Transnationalization of Bioscience: How do biomedical, reproduction-technological, and genetic innovations with transnational impact form individual and collective identities? What effect does this have on experiences of corporeality, genderdness, kinship, and family (also refer to the research area of “Biosciences and Society”)?
• Bioscientific Knowledge and the Construction of Gender: What role does bioscientific knowledge play in the neutral—and apparently objective and scientific—establishment of the bipolarity of the genders? Are new pressures to make decisions and moral obligations produced within the context of genetic and neuroscientific knowledge whose primary addressees are women? Or is it possible to identify processes of the deconstruction of gendered bipolarity approaching a “continuum” (also refer to the research area of “Biosciences and Society”)?