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I Have a Name: the Gender Dynamics in Asylum and in Resettlement of Ethiopian and Eritrean Refugees in North America
In: Journal of refugee studies, Band 6, Heft 3, S. 203-225
ISSN: 0951-6328
Not born a refugee woman: contesting identities, rethinking practices
In: Studies in forced migration Volume 24
Pt. I. Reconceptualizing Identities: A Dialogical Approach to Identity: Implications for Refugee Women / Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed -- The Gender Relations of Home, Security, and Transversal Feminism: Refugee Women Reclaiming Their Identity / Wenona Giles -- Always "Natasha": The Transnational Sex Trafficking of Women / Victor Malarek and Sarah V. Wayland -- Reconstituting the Subject: Feminist Politics of Humanitarian Assistance / Jennifer Hyndman and Malathi de Alwis
Not born a refugee woman: contesting identities, rethinking practices
In: Studies in forced migration v. 24
Identity is constructed through a relational and contextual process informed by many factors - particularly gender. According to UNHCR, uprootedness caused by various forms of forced displacement affects about 37 to 40 million women and children in the world, posing major challenges to their identity and agency. Even though institutions and organizations have increasingly sought their participation, refugee women still find themselves in situations "where policies are generated, and programs delivered with little or no input from them" (Indra, 1989). This volume explores identity in all its co
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