Women Refugee Voices from Asia and Africa: Travelling for Safety

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This book presents experiences of women refugees in a variety of contexts across Asia and Africa and builds a framework to ensure robust and effective mechanisms to safeguard refugees’ rights. It highlights the structural challenges that women who are forcibly displaced face and the inadequacies of the response of governments and other stakeholders, irrespective of the country of origin, ethnicity, and religion of the refugee community. This volume: ● Focuses on contemporary issues such as the Rohingya and the Syrian crisis. ● Brings first-person accounts of women refugees from Asia and Africa. ● Draws on an interdisciplinary approach to analyse a host of issues, including public policy, cultural norms, and economics of forced migration. Bringing together first-hand accounts from women refugees and interventions by activists, academics, journalists, filmmakers, humanitarian workers, and international law experts, this book will be a must read for scholars and researchers of migration and diaspora studies, development studies, sociology and social anthropology, and politics and public policy. It will be of special interest to NGOs, policymakers, and think tanks. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Notes on contributors Foreword Acknowledgements Part I Overview Chapter 1 Introduction The special vulnerability of refugee women Crisis of identity and other themes Making refugees the object of discourse Notes Chapter 2 Forced displacement: Reflecting on women’s lived realities Overview Gender considerations in interpreting international refugee law Protection challenges faced by women and girls in forced displacement Strengthening strategies for change New ways of working: the Global Compact on Refugees Conclusion Notes Part II The path they travelled: Stories of refugee women Chapter 3 Narratives of refugee women Stories of Rohingya women in Bangladesh Stories from Sri Lankan Tamil women in India Stories from Pakistani displaced minorities in India Stories from West Saharan women in Algeria Stories from refugee women in the Democratic Republic of Congo Stories of internally displaced women in Syria Chapter 4 A face to the journeys: From the pages of an artist’s sketchbook Chapter 5 Rohingya exodus 2017: A photo essay on life at refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh Chapter 6 Feminists on the move Abeer Shabana Biba On leaving home Notes Part III The particular vulnerabilities of refugee women Chapter 7 Protection gaps for women and girls in refugee crises Notes Chapter 8 Social and cultural isolation of women in refuge Introduction Conflict, violence, and trauma Family separation in exile Invisibility in the host country Conclusion Notes Chapter 9 Women, social positioning, and refugee status Introduction The transience fallacy and host country fatigue Refugee women and the difficulties they face Exile and opportunities Quest for self-reliance Conclusion Notes Chapter 10 Forced migration and the gendering of survival in exile Introduction Precarious lives: poverty and informality as key features of forced displacement The gendered nature of work Conclusion Notes Part IV The contours of a long-term resolution Chapter 11 Statelessness in exile Making of statelessness Stateless and displaced Statelessness in abeyance Conclusion Notes Chapter 12 Refugee repatriation: The role of education, healthcare, livelihood, and violence The role of education The role of livelihoods The role of healthcare The role of domestic violence and conflict Complex cases Conclusion Notes Chapter 13 Towards durable solutions: The rights of refugees and shared responsibilities of states to ensure their protection Introduction The international refugee law framework Where it counts: Implementation of the international protection regime Where to from here? Notes Index