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White feminist scholarship in the Global North has drawn attention to the challenges facing women seeking protection under international refugee law (IRL). Whilst these efforts have improved outcomes for some women, they have largely failed to reconfigure the ways in which gendered experiences of persecution are conceptualised and represented. Drawing on postcolonial feminist scholarship, this article suggests that white feminist scholars have been largely complicit in a script that essentialises the experiences of women originating from the Global South. Where gender is taken into account, women from the Global South are typically understood and represented through a neo-imperial frame as disempowered, helpless "victims", or as "Exotic Others" who need to be rescued from their "backward" cultures. The framing of "Refugee Women" as a homogenous and undifferentiated category ignores the complex intersections of race and gender shaping both women's experiences and the racialised politics of protection. Moreover, because white feminist approaches have a colonial "blind spot", they ignore the ways in which the international refugee regime is deeply entangled with the history of colonialism. In so doing, they replicate and reinforce racialised representations of Black and Muslim men as perpetrators of violence against women.

The theme articles in this FMR challenge Europe's leaders to ensure that development of a common European asylum policy focuses on tackling the root causes of forced migration & on providing protection & integration & not simply keeping asylum seekers out of Europe. Adapted from the source document.

The drive to reduce the number of asylum seekers in Europe & to secure durable solutions for the 'asylum problem' has provoked controversy about 'extra-territorial processing'. The most effective & durable solution, however, is to address the root causes of the initial flight. Adapted from the source document.

The particular difficulties facing many women as asylum seekers stem not from the absence of 'gender' in the Refugee Convention's grounds but rather from the failure of decisionmakers to acknowledge & respond to the gendering of politics & of women's relationship to the state when applying that definition to individual cases.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 South-South Migration and Inequality: An Introduction -- The Scale and Importance of South-South Migration -- The Relationships Between Migration and Inequality -- The Importance of Global South Perspectives -- The Contributions to this Handbook -- References -- Part I Conceptualising South-South Migration -- 2 The Enduring Impacts of Slavery: A Historical Perspective on South-South Migration -- Introduction: A Critical View of the Minority World and South-South Migration -- An Overview of the Transatlantic Slave Trade -- The Legacy of Slavery -- Slavery and the Protracted Displacement of Liberians in West Africa -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 3 Recentring the South in Studies of Migration -- Introduction -- Redressing Eurocentrism in Migration Studies -- Examining the applicability of classical concepts and frameworks in the South -- Studying Migration in the South and South-South Migration -- The Geopolitics of Knowledge Production -- Decentring the North Qua Recentring the South? -- The Politics of Recentring -- The "South" or "Southern Theories"? -- The Politics of Citation: Beyond Diversity and Inclusion -- The Politics of "Quoted" Knowledge: Rethinking the Wound -- References -- 4 Writing the Refugee Camp: A Southern-Southern Correspondence -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Writing the Camp -- Refugees Are Dialectical Beings -- Anthropologists -- 5 Migration Research, Coloniality and Epistemic Injustice -- Introduction -- The State of Academic Migration Research -- Migration Research, Epistemic Injustice and Epistemic Oppression -- Eurocentrism in Migration Studies -- Epistemic Exploitation -- Wilful Hermeneutical Ignorance -- Addressing the Eurocentrism of Migration Research -- Conclusion.

This open access handbook examines the phenomenon of South-South migration and its relationship to inequality in the Global South, where at least a third of all international migration takes place. Drawing on contributions from nearly 70 leading migration scholars, mainly from the Global South, the handbook challenges dominant conceptualisations of migration, offering new perspectives and insights that can inform theoretical and policy understandings and unlock migration's development potential. The handbook is divided into four parts, each highlighting often overlooked mobility patterns within and between regions of the Global South, as well as the inequalities faced by those who move. Key cross-cutting themes include gender, race, poverty and income inequality, migration decision making, intermediaries, remittances, technology, climate change, food security and migration governance. The handbook is an indispensable resource on South-South migration and inequality for academics, researchers, postgraduates and development practitioners.

Afghans have consistently been one of the largest groups of refugees arriving in Europe, with more than 600,000 Afghan asylum applications in European countries over the past ten years, second only in number to Syrians. Afghan migration to Europe is a response to both the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan and protracted displacement in countries hosting the vast majority of Afghan refugees, including Iran, where there is a well‐documented lack of protection, rights, and opportunities. Drawing on interviews undertaken in Turkey and Greece during the last three months of 2015, this article examines the experiences of Afghans who travelled to Europe from Iran, where they had been living for many years, and in some cases had been born. Their experiences, particularly when seen in the context of Afghan mobility historically, complicate dichotomies between "forced" and "voluntary" migration, and "origin" and "destination" countries, which underpin the Common European Asylum System. It is clear that mobility forms an important survival strategy for Afghans and others living in situations of protracted displacement, for whom efforts to provide durable solutions have been largely unsuccessful. Harnessing this mobility by facilitating and supporting - rather than preventing - onward migration is the key to unlocking protracted displacement.