Women Refugee Voices from Asia and Africa

Travelling for Safety
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-49712-5
Verlag: Routledge India

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 310 g

The 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.
The 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, policy makers and think tanks.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Association, Actionaid

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Migrations- & Minderheitenpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Leymah Gbowee PART 1: OVERVIEW 1. Introduction 2. Forced Displacement: Reflecting on Women’s Lived Realities PART II: THE PATH THEY TRAVELLED – STORIES OF REFUGEE WOMEN 3. Narratives of Refugee Women 4. A face to the journeys: From the pages of an artist’s sketchbook 5. Rohingya Exodus 2017: A photo essay on life at refugee camps in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh 6. Feminists on the Move PART III: THE PARTICULAR VULNERABILITIES OF REFUGEE WOMEN 7. Protection Gaps for Women and Girls in Refugee Crises 8. Social and Cultural Isolation of Women in Refuge 9. Women, Social Positioning, and Refugee Status 10. Forced Migration and the Gendering of Survival in Exile PART IV: THE CONTOURS OF A LONG-TERM RESOLUTION 11. Statelessness in Exile 12. Refugee Repatriation: The Role of Education, Healthcare, Livelihoods, and Violence 13. Towards durable solutions: The rights of refugees and shared responsibilities of states to ensure their protection

Über Autor(innen)

ActionAid Association (AAA) is an organisation working for social and ecological justice. AAA has been engaged with the most marginalised communities in India since 1972. In 2006, it was registered as an Indian organisation, governed by an independent General Assembly and a Governing Board. Together with supporters, communities, institutions, and governments, it strives for equality, fraternity, and liberty for all.

ActionAid Association has been at the forefront of responding to the emergency needs of forcibly displaced communities for over four decades. AAA prioritises the needs of women and children and builds resilience of marginalised populations. AAA has supported displaced minorities from Pakistan living in Rajasthan, and internally displaced persons from Chhattisgarh settled in Andhra Pradesh. In partnership with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, AAA extends support to people from the Rohingya community settled in parts of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana. AAA advocates for the universal rights of refugees, regardless of gender, class, caste, ethnicity, religion, and country of origin. AAA feels it is the collective responsibility of the international community to respond and ensure the rights of refugees.