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Muhammad, Rehan Khan. "International Forced Migration and Pak- Afghan Development Concerns: Exploring Afghan Refugee Livelihood Strategies." Journal of Social and Development Sciences 2, no. 4 (October 15, 2011): 181–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.22610/jsds.v2i4.667.
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This study investigates the livelihood strategies employed by Afghan refugees residing in Pakistan. These refugees were forced to take refuge in Pakistan after Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1978. Three decades after their migration, and after repeated Pakistani government attempts to resettle them in Afghanistan, scores of Afghan refugees still reside in Pakistan. This paper discusses the evolving relationship between Afghanistan and Pakistan over the years and their respective implications. Researching the various livelihood strategies that Afghan refugees pursued their impact on the Pakistani labor market is discussed. By means of taking a case study of an Afghan refugee woman, this study concludes that there exists a gender dimension in Afghan refugee population. In doing so two developmental concerns are identified i) development projects focused on refugee assistance in Afghanistan and Pakistan ignore the development concerns of the women population ii) countries that provide refuge to victims of war are exposed to a new set of development challenges in addition to their already burdened economy. This paper furthers the academic debate on achieving the development challenge of attaining a stable South Asia, in light of the AfPak strategy initiated by President Obama in 2010, and reflects on potential areas for policy making for Pakistan, Afghanistan and the United States.
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Street, Claire P., Poh Yen Ng, and Haya Al-Dajani. "Refugee Women Business Mentors: New Evidence for Women’s Empowerment." Sustainability 14, no. 15 (July 26, 2022): 9154. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14159154.
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With over 27.1 million refugees displaced globally across national borders as a result of protracted crises, conflict, and danger, resettlement in host nations remains challenging. One approach for empowering refugee women in their host nations is to enhance their economic participation through entrepreneurship. We contribute to the growing research on refugee women’s entrepreneurship by focusing on refugee women entrepreneurs as mentors to other refugee women and exploring the impact of mentoring upon the empowerment of refugee women business mentors. The aim of the study is to explore the impact of being a mentor on the empowerment of refugee women entrepreneurs settled in the United Kingdom. As such, the research question asks to what extent does being a mentor influence the empowerment of refugee women entrepreneurs. The qualitative study involved six refugee women business mentors who co-designed and led an entrepreneurship training programme for refugee women in the United Kingdom and charted their empowerment journeys through four potential empowerment junctures within the mentoring process. First, the refugee woman as a mentee, then as a member of a mentoring group, thirdly as a facilitator in the mentoring process, and finally as a reflective agent. Our contribution to the women’s entrepreneurship discipline lies in our finding that refugee women’s engagement as mentors enhanced their empowerment in ways that their entrepreneurship alone cannot.
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Linck, Raney, and Munira Osman. "Reflections From the Other Side: The Refugee Journey to Health and Well-Being." Creative Nursing 22, no. 4 (2016): 283–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1078-4535.22.4.283.
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The refugee crisis is an urgent global health issue; the number of displaced people has escalated to its worst point in recorded history. To explore the refugee phenomenon as a social determinant of health, this article examines the experience of Somali refugees in Minnesota. Health care barriers unique to refugees are explored through the first-person perspective of one Somali woman who ultimately became a nurse.
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Holvikivi, Aiko, and Audrey Reeves. "Women, Peace and Security after Europe's ‘refugee crisis’." European Journal of International Security 5, no. 2 (April 27, 2020): 135–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/eis.2020.1.
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AbstractSince its inception in 2000, the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda has conceptualised the conflict-affected woman as a subject worthy of international attention, protection, and inclusion. In the wake of Europe's ‘refugee crisis’, this article examines how the remit of WPS has broadened from women in conflict zones to refugees in Europe's borderlands. A minority of European states now attend, in their WPS policy, to these conflict-affected women on the move. This inclusion productively challenges established notions of where conflict-affectedness is located. It exposes Europe as not always peaceful and safe for women, especially refugees who flee war. Conversely, the dominant tendency to exclude refugees from European WPS policy is built on a fantasy of Europe as peaceful and secure for women, which legitimises the fortressing of Europe and obscures European states’ complicity in fuelling insecurity at their borders, cultivating an ethos of coloniality around the WPS agenda. The inclusion of refugees is no panacea to these problems. If focused solely on protection, it repositions European states as protective heroes and conflict-affected women as helpless victims. The WPS framework nonetheless emphasises conflict-affected women's participation in decision-making and conflict prevention, opening space for recognising the refugee women as political actors.
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Denzongpa, Kunga, and Tracy Nichols. "We Can’t Step Back: Women Specially…A Narrative Case Study on Resilience, Independence, and Leadership of a Bhutanese Refugee Woman." Affilia 35, no. 1 (August 28, 2019): 129–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886109919871266.
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One of the fastest emerging global public health crises is the rapid increase in the population of forcibly displaced people, known as refugees. Refugee women, particularly, are at a greater disadvantage due to their social positioning related to gender norms, language barriers, and lack of resources. They are also more likely to experience structural and situational stressors. Despite myriad negative factors, studies show refugee women employ resilient strategies to overcome their stressors. This study uses a narrative analysis approach to understand how a Bhutanese refugee woman’s experiences throughout her journey of birth, double displacement, and resettlement were expressed through her resiliency and independence and culminated into a community leadership role once she was resettled in the United States. Data were collected using extensive observational field notes and multiple formal and informal interviews. The story was co-constructed with the participant through an iterative process of developing, verifying, and refining to increase accuracy. Implications for social work practice emphasize the need to identify and support women as leaders in the community, to connect refugee communities with organizational resources, and to preserve and promote the voices of women leaders and empower their position in their communities.
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Pittaway, Eileen, and Emma Pittaway. "‘Refugee woman’: a dangerous label." Australian Journal of Human Rights 10, no. 1 (June 2004): 119–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1323238x.2004.11910773.
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M Coşkun, Anahit, Nebahat Özerdoğan, Eylem Karakaya, and Eda Yakıt. "Fertility characteristics and related factors impacting on Syrian refugee women living in Istanbul." African Health Sciences 20, no. 2 (July 22, 2020): 682–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v20i2.19.
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Background: Women’s fertility characteristics are affected by many different factors.
Aim: To gain an awareness of fertility characteristics of Syrian refugee women and the influential factors.
Methods: This study was planned as a cross-sectional study to determine the efficiency and related factors of Syrian refugees living in Istanbul. The survey of 300 refugee women applying Arabs who migrated to Turkey, Kurds, Turkmen and Yezidi origin they receive.
Results: Average age of the women studied was 34.26 ± 10.15, 34.6% of the participants had not received any education, 37% had less than two-year inter-pregnancy interval, 58.6% have not received “Safe Motherhood” service, 43.6% have conceived their last child unwillingly. Women in the study group had in average 3±2,4 children and the number of children they wanted was 3±1,59. These values were substantially affected negatively by the women’s education level and positively by the income level. Yezidis had significantly more children than other ethnic groups and did not have a “religious ban” on voluntary abortion.
Conclusion: It has been noted that fertility characteristics of refugee women who migrated to Turkey changed according to their ethnic backgrounds and were sustained in the country they migrated to. Along with harsh living conditions and insufficient access to health services the situation has been observed to pose serious risks on reproductive health.
Keywords: Syrian refugee woman; fertility characteristics; impacting factors.
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Opoku Awuku, Emmanuel. "Refugee Movements in Africa and the OAU Convention on Refugees." Journal of African Law 39, no. 1 (1995): 79–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021855300005891.
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“There is no doubt that once, twice or even several times in your life, you have had to stop for a moment in a street or as you enter into a village, to express sorrow over the lot of a man, a woman or a child looking haggard, badly dressed, underfed and not knowing where to go. Then, you were overwhelmed with a feeling of compassion and a sigh of sadness gripping you by the throat. You could not help but felt concerned and said to yourself it was your duty to ‘make a gesture’ thus listening to the dictate of your conscience.”Dr Peter Onu, OAU Assistant Secretary General
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Lima, Simone Santos da Silva. "CHALLENGES OF THE REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT WOMAN." Scientific Journal of Applied Social and Clinical Science 2, no. 9 (June 10, 2022): 2–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.2162922060610.
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de Regt, Marina. "Refugee, woman and domestic worker: Somali women dealing with dependencies in Yemen." African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal 3, no. 1 (January 2010): 109–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17528630903319904.
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Papadakaki, Maria, Maria Iliadou, Eirini Sioti, Elena Petelos, and Victoria Vivilaki. "The Perinatal Journey of a Refugee Woman in Greece: A Qualitative Study in the Context of the ORAMMA Project to Elucidate Current Challenges and Future Perspectives." Sexes 2, no. 4 (October 20, 2021): 452–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sexes2040036.
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Migrant and refugee women face specific health risks and challenges during the perinatal period, presenting with complex physical, psychological, and mental health issues. Compassionate antenatal and postnatal care is urgently required across Europe given how outcomes during this period determine the health wellbeing throughout a person’s life. The current study aimed to describe the perinatal health care provided to refugee and migrant women in Greece, as well as to identify the barriers to delivering quality health care to these population groups. Data were gathered via qualitative research, and via document analysis, including grey literature research. Two focus groups were convened; one with five midwives in Athens (representing NGOs in refugee camps and public maternity hospitals) and another in Crete with twenty-six representatives of key stakeholder groups involved in the perinatal care of refugees and migrant women. Desk research was conducted with in a stepwise manner comprising two steps: (a) a mapping exercise to identify organizations/institutes of relevance across Greece, i.e., entities involved in perinatal healthcare provision for refugees and migrants; (b) an electronic search across institutional websites and the World Wide Web, for key documents on the perinatal care of refugee and migrant women that were published during the 10-year period prior to the research being conducted and referring to Greece. Analysis of the desk research followed the principles of content analysis, and the analysis of the focus group data followed the principles of an inductive thematic analysis utilizing the actual data to drive the structure analysis. Key findings of the current study indicate that the socioeconomic status, living and working conditions, the legal status in the host country, as well as providers’ cultural competence, attitudes and beliefs and communication challenges, all currently represent major barriers to the efficient and culturally appropriate provision of perinatal care. The low capacity of the healthcare system to meet the needs of women in these population groups in the context of maternal care in a country that has suffered years of austerity has been amply recorded and adds further contextual constraints. Policy reform is urgently required to achieve cultural competence, to improve transcultural care provision across maternity care settings, and to ensure improved maternal and children’s outcomes.
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Ratković, Snežana. "The Location of Refugee Female Teachers in the Canadian Context: “Not Just a Refugee Woman!”." Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees 29, no. 1 (October 18, 2013): 103–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.37522.
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This paper explores intersectionality of oppression and social agency in refugee narratives of four female teachers from Yugoslavia who immigrated to Ontario and Quebec between 1994 and 1998. These narratives reveal a number of systemic barriers participants encountered in their new country, such as lack of coordination between immigra- tion and settlement services, lack of information about the teacher recertification process, systemic ignorance towards international teaching credentials and experiences, and a number of settlement practices that pushed the partici- pating women teachers to the margins of the Canadian educational system. In addition to reporting a number of systemic barriers to teaching, these women also revealed self-imposed psychological and culturally constructed barriers to settlement such as personal perceptions of having limited language competencies, of being “too old” to continue education, and of remaining permanent outsiders to Canadian ways of being. Women also discussed their choices and priorities in terms of their personal and professional lives and the ways in which these preferences facilitated and/or hindered their integration in the Canadian education system and society. The paper challenges the master narrative of refugeehood in Canada by exposing the ways in which race, class, gender, age, ethnicity, and professional identity, in addition to refugeehood, shape the oppression and the privilege of refugee women in the Canadian context.
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Tamboukou, Maria. "Mobility assemblages and lines of flight in women’s narratives of forced displacement." European Journal of Women's Studies 27, no. 3 (June 17, 2020): 235–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350506820932946.
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In this article I take the notion of the mobility assemblage as a theoretical lens through which I consider entanglements between refugee and migrant women on the move, intense experiences of gendered labour, and affective encounters in crossing borders and following lines of flight. The analysis revolves around the life-story of a young refugee woman, who recounts her experiences of travelling to Greece. What emerges from her narrative is a whirl of lines of flight that deterritorialize her from patriarchal regimes, harsh border practices, labour exploitation and the pain of separation on a plane of remaking her present and reimagining her future.
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Sidhva, Dina, Ann-Christin Zuntz, Ruba al Akash, Ayat Nashwan, and Areej Al-Majali. "‘In Exile, the Woman Became Everything’." Journal of Humanitarian Affairs 3, no. 1 (January 1, 2021): 4–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/jha.054.
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This article explores the intersections of generational and gender dynamics with humanitarian governance in Jordan that cause shifts in the division of labour within displaced families. Drawing on life history interviews and focus group discussions with seventeen Syrian women in Jordan in spring 2019, we explore the monetary and non-monetary contributions of middle-aged females to the livelihoods of refugee households. Older women’s paid and unpaid labour holds together dispersed families whose fathers have been killed or incapacitated, or remain in Syria or in the Gulf. In doing so, many women draw on their pre-war experience of living with – or rather apart from – migrant husbands. Increased economic and social responsibilities coincide with a phase in our interviewees’ lifecycle in which they traditionally acquire greater authority as elders, especially as mothers-in-law. While power inequalities between older and younger Syrian women are not new, they have been exacerbated by the loss of resources in displacement. Our insights offer a counterpoint to humanitarian attempts at increasing refugees’ ‘self-reliance’ through small-scale entrepreneurship. For now, culturally appropriate and practically feasible jobs for middle-aged women are found in their living rooms. Supportive humanitarian action should allow them to upscale their businesses and address power dynamics within families.
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Hilole, Ibado Mahamoud. "The story of a Somalian refugee woman in Ethiopia." Intervention 14, no. 1 (March 2016): 70–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/wtf.0000000000000102.
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ACHING, Michele Carmona, and Tania Mara Marques GRANATO. "Role of a support network for refugee mothers." Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas) 35, no. 2 (June 2018): 137–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1982-02752018000200003.
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Abstract Recent studies on the transition to motherhood suggest that a support network plays a central role in maternal experience and in the development of the mother-infant relationship. Being a woman without a partner, having economic difficulties, belonging to an ethnic minority or being a recent migrant are some of the conditions that overlap with the demands of maternity and create multiple vulnerabilities. This article analyzes the maternal experience of two recent refugee women in Brazil. The analysis is based on psychotherapeutic sessions at a Winnicottian transcultural clinic offered at a host institution for pregnant women and mothers. We describe how loneliness and helplessness challenge maternal skills, while resilience and adequate shelter facilitate the construction of a support network that favors good motherhood. In our view, the professional can help ensure that maternal practices are guided by the cultural reference of origin as the mother integrates into the culture of the host country.
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Hackett, Conrad, Marcin Stonawski, Michaela Potančoková, Phillip Connor, Anne Fengyan Shi, Stephanie Kramer, and Joey Marshall. "Projections of Europe’s Growing Muslim Population Under Three Migration Scenarios." Journal of Religion and Demography 6, no. 1 (May 6, 2019): 87–122. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2589742x-00601002.
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We present estimates of how Muslim populations in Europe increased between 2010 and 2016 and projections of how they will continue to grow under three migration scenarios. If all migration were to immediately and permanently stop – a “zero migration” scenario – the Muslim population of Europe still would be expected to rise from the current level of 4.9% to 7.4% by the year 2050 because Muslims are younger (by 13 years, on average) and have higher fertility (one child more per woman, on average) than other Europeans. A second, “medium” migration scenario assumes all refugee flows stopped as of mid-2016 but that recent levels of “regular” migration to Europe will continue. Under these conditions, Muslims could reach 11.2% of Europe’s population in 2050. Finally, a “high” migration scenario projects the record flow of refugees into Europe between 2014 and 2016 to continue indefinitely into the future with the same religious composition (i.e., mostly made up of Muslims) in addition to the typical annual flow of regular migrants. In this scenario, Muslims could make up 14% of Europe’s population by 2050. Refugee flows around 2015, however, were extremely high and already have begun to decline as the European Union and many of its member states have made refugee policy changes.
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Isfahani, Shahla Nakhost. "Art therapy with a young refugee woman – survivor of war." International Journal of Art Therapy 13, no. 2 (December 2008): 79–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17454830802503453.
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Mwenyango, Hadijah, and George Palattiyil. "Health needs and challenges of women and children in Uganda’s refugee settlements: Conceptualising a role for social work." International Social Work 62, no. 6 (September 9, 2019): 1535–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872819865010.
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With 1.36 million refugees, Uganda has witnessed Africa’s highest refugee crisis and is confronted with subsequent protection and assistance demands. The Government of Uganda and its partners are trying to support refugees to overcome the associated debilitating health conditions, and it recently shot to prominence in refuge management. Despite this, there are still gaps in health service provision for refugees. This article discusses the health situation of refugee women and children living in Uganda’s refugee settlements, explores the existing health service gaps, and argues that there is a need to extend the role of social work in health services for refugees.
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Boyle, Jacqueline Anne, Suzanne Willey, Rebecca Blackmore, Christine East, Jacqueline McBride, Kylie Gray, Glenn Melvin, et al. "Improving Mental Health in Pregnancy for Refugee Women: Protocol for the Implementation and Evaluation of a Screening Program in Melbourne, Australia." JMIR Research Protocols 8, no. 8 (August 19, 2019): e13271. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/13271.
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Background Identifying mental health disorders in migrant and refugee women during pregnancy provides an opportunity for interventions that may benefit women and their families. Evidence suggests that perinatal mental health disorders impact mother-infant attachment at critical times, which can affect child development. Postnatal depression resulting in suicide is one of the leading causes of maternal mortality postpartum. Routine screening of perinatal mental health is recommended to improve the identification of depression and anxiety and to facilitate early management. However, screening is poorly implemented into routine practice. This study is the first to investigate routine screening for perinatal mental health in a maternity setting designed for refugee women. This study will determine whether symptoms of depression and anxiety are more likely to be detected by the screening program compared with routine care and will evaluate the screening program’s feasibility and acceptability to women and health care providers (HCPs). Objective The objectives of this study are (1) to assess if refugee women are more likely to screen risk-positive for depression and anxiety than nonrefugee women, using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS); (2) to assess if screening in pregnancy using the EPDS enables better detection of symptoms of depression and anxiety in refugee women than current routine care; (3) to determine if a screening program for perinatal mental health in a maternity setting designed for refugee women is acceptable to women; and (4) to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of the perinatal mental health screening program from the perspective of HCPs (including the barriers and enablers to implementation). Methods This study uses an internationally recommended screening measure, the EPDS, and a locally developed psychosocial questionnaire, both administered in early pregnancy and again in the third trimester. These measures have been translated into the most common languages used by the women attending the clinic and are administered via an electronic platform (iCOPE). This platform automatically calculates the EPDS score and generates reports for the HCP and woman. A total of 119 refugee women and 155 nonrefugee women have been recruited to evaluate the screening program’s ability to detect depression and anxiety symptoms and will be compared with 34 refugee women receiving routine care. A subsample of women will participate in a qualitative assessment of the screening program’s acceptability and feasibility. Health service staff have been recruited to evaluate the integration of screening into maternity care. Results The recruitment is complete, and data collection and analysis are underway. Conclusions It is anticipated that screening will increase the identification and management of depression and anxiety symptoms in pregnancy. New information will be generated on how to implement such a program in feasible and acceptable ways that will improve health outcomes for refugee women. International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID) DERR1-10.2196/13271
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Bukuluki, Paul, Peter Kisaakye, Bonny Etti, Micheal Ocircan, and Roberts-Reites Bev. "Tolerance of Violence against Women and the Risk of Psychosocial Distress in Humanitarian Settings in Northern Uganda." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 15 (July 30, 2021): 8103. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18158103.
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Background: Violence against women (VAW) remains a public health concern, which can sometimes lead to mental or psychological stress among other negative consequences. Data and methods: we fitted a binary logistic regression model on 657 respondents from host and refugee settings in three humanitarian districts (Adjumani, Obongi, and Lamwo) to examine the determinants of psychosocial stress. Results: experience of psychosocial distress is higher among refugees than host populations. Results indicate a higher proportion of respondents who ever experienced psychosocial stress in the 6 months preceding the survey among those who believed that a woman should tolerate violence (59% vs. 53%). Respondents who believed that a woman should tolerate violence had higher odds of experiencing psychosocial stress than their counterparts who believed a woman should not tolerate violence (OR = 6.86; 95%CI = 1.23–38.22). The likelihood to experience psychosocial stress was higher among females (OR = 6.94; 95%CI = 1.76–27.32), those with primary education (OR = 4.73; 95%CI = 1.24–18.00), and respondents with less than USD 2.7 as personal income one month before the survey (OR = 3.37; 95%CI = 1.32–8.62). Respondents who said that women should engage in income generation activities had higher odds to experience psychosocial stress (OR = 0.39; 95%CI = 0.17–0.89). Conclusion: results suggest that income and positive attitudes toward female-led income generating activities act as protective measures against psychosocial distress. Given the associations between VAW and psychosocial distress, efforts aimed at prevention and response to VAW in humanitarian settings should integrate mental health and psychosocial support interventions.
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Stairs, Jocelyn, Navpreet Bal, Finlay Maguire, and Heather Scott. "A resident-led clinic that promotes the health of refugee women through advocacy and partnership." Canadian Medical Education Journal 10, no. 4 (November 28, 2019): e102-e104. http://dx.doi.org/10.36834/cmej.67807.
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Implication StatementLongitudinal global health experiences promote cultural competency and a commitment to caring for underserved populations beyond residency. This paper describes a longitudinal, co-curricular local global health experience. Obstetrics and gynaecology residents have partnered with the Family Medicine-led Halifax Newcomer Health Clinic to provide education and clinical well woman care to refugee women. This resident-led initiative meets the care needs of an underserved population while promoting resident engagement in health advocacy.
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Kulig, Judith C. "'Those With Unheard Voices': The Plight of a Cambodian Refugee Woman." Journal of Community Health Nursing 11, no. 2 (June 1994): 99–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15327655jchn1102_5.
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Abramovich, Alex, June Sing Hong Lam, and Muna Chowdhury. "A transgender refugee woman experiencing posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and homelessness." Canadian Medical Association Journal 192, no. 1 (January 5, 2020): E9—E11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.190974.
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Alexakis, Lykourgos Christos, Anastasia Papachristou, Chiara Baruzzi, and Angeliki Konstantinou. "The Use of Interpreters in Medical Triage during a Refugee Mass-Gathering Incident in Europe." Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 32, no. 6 (July 31, 2017): 684–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x17006781.
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AbstractIntroductionDuring a refugees’ mass-gathering incident in Kos Island, Greece, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF; Brussels, Belgium) teams provided emergency medical care. A case report of the event focusing on difficulties encountered by the interpreters during triage and emergency response was prepared.MethodsData collected during the event were reviewed from the patient’s register and qualitative interviews were obtained from the MSF interpreters involved in the response. In addition, a description of the event and a literature review were included.ResultsTotal consultations were 49 patients, mainly from Syria, with an average age of 25 years. During triage, 20 patients were tagged green with only minor injuries; 11 patients were tagged yellow, mostly due to heat exhaustion, but also a hypertensive crisis, a diabetic, a pregnant woman with abdominal pain, and a peptic ulcer exacerbation. The remaining 18 patients were tagged red and diagnosed with heat syncope, except from a case of epileptic seizures and an acute chest pain patient. Interpreters were insufficient in number to accompany each doctor and every nurse providing care during the event. In addition, they were constantly disturbed by both refugees and fellow medical team members demanding their service. Interpreters had to triage and prioritize where to go and for whom to interpret.ConclusionInterpreters are an integral part of a proper refugee reception system. They should be included in authorities planning where mass gatherings of refugees are expected. Appropriate training may be needed for interpreters to develop skills useful in mass gatherings and similar prehospital settings in order to better coordinate with the medical team.AlexakisLCPapachristouABaruzziCKonstantinouA. The use of interpreters in medical triage during a refugee mass-gathering incident in Europe. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2017;32(6):684–687.
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Hadjicharalambous, Demetris, and Stavros Parlalis. "Migrants’ Sexual Violence in the Mediterranean Region: A Regional Analysis." Sexes 2, no. 3 (July 5, 2021): 305–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sexes2030024.
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Migration in the Mediterranean region has increased greatly during the last years. Reports and studies reveal that violence and injuries among refugees and migrants is a common occurrence in the WHO Europe Region. Available literature indicates that sexual violence incidents take place: (a) during the migratory journey to the host country, (b) while in detention centers, (c) once migrants have reached their destination, and (d) during the period in which a woman is subject of trafficking. This manuscript explores how sexual violence against refugee/immigrant women is presented in the international literature; a narrative review of the literature was conducted on the phenomenon of migration in the Mediterranean area, and specifically on sexual violence of migrant women. In order to face the challenges faced by migrant women victims of sexual violence, the following policies are suggested by international literature: (a) offer emergency medical and health care to sexual violence survivors, which is usually relatively limited, (b) offer mental health care and psychological support for sexual violence when planning services to provide clinical care, and (c) work towards the aim of transforming norms and values in order to promote gender equality and support non-violent behaviours.
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Lopez-Gonzaga, Violeta. "Crisis, Poverty, and Survival in the Philippines: One Woman Finds Hope." Missiology: An International Review 15, no. 3 (July 1987): 357–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009182968701500307.
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Filipino women have traditionally enjoyed greater equality than women in other Southeast Asian countries, and women have played an important role in keeping families together despite impoverished conditions. One such woman is Rufina, who grew up amid poverty, and began working at the age of 14 to help support her family. More recently, due to military conflict in the countryside, she was forced to flee with her six children to the city of Bacolod, where she lived in an abandoned storage building with five other refugee families. Amid the crisis her two youngest children died, but through the seemingly hopeless circumstances, Rufina found hope through the ministry of a Christian evangelist, who was able to offer her medical aid and food supplies through a local congregation of believers.
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Nikolic-Ristanovic, Vesna. "Refugee Women in Serbia – Invisible Victims of War in the Former Yugoslavia." Feminist Review 73, no. 1 (April 2003): 104–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400078.
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In this paper, I explore the experiences of women who found refuge in Serbia during the war in the former Yugoslavia. I look at the women's experiences of both leaving home and coping with everyday life in refuge. The exploration of refugee women's experiences is mainly based on analyses of their own stories, which I collected while researching women and war. In spite of all the hardship of their lives, refugee women who fled to Serbia have been treated by Western media, the public and aid organizations as ‘UNPEOPLE’ or as non-existent. Making their experiences visible as women, refugees and citizens is the main purpose of this article.
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Elliot, Sue. "Toward equal participation: An auto-ethnography of facilitating consultations in the refugee sector." Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work 27, no. 3 (September 1, 2015): 57–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol27iss3id6.
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This article uses an auto-ethnographic approach to exploring how one positions oneself as a facilitator in a layered and power-laden context in the refugee sector in New Zealand to ensure just and collaborative negotiations. It reflects on my facilitation practice based during a series of annual consultations between UNHCR, NGOs and refugee community representatives over a period of five years. The article begins by providing a brief overview of the New Zealand refugee system. This is followed by a review of relevant literature on the role of the facilitator and the role of facilitation within community development, an acknowledged field of social work. Reflections on facilitation practice within an ethnically diverse situation makes up the bulk of the article, which is written from the perspective of a Pakeha woman who has worked in the refugee sector for nearly 35 years, most recently in community development and capacity building of refugee-based organisations. This paper adopts a relatively descriptive style to a personal reflection on facilitating large consultations in the refugee sector in New Zealand. For ease of reading, the term refugee is used throughout, although the consultations focus on both refugee and asylum issues. As presented here, my reflexive analysis is interwoven with research and literature on facilitation and reflects who I am and what I value, in a myriad of tacit and overt ways. It focuses on the facilitation process and the role of the facilitator rather than on the outcomes of the consultations. I have deliberately focused on my own story as I consider this is the story I can ethically tell.
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McGready, Rose, Joy Kang, Isabella Watts, Mary Ellen G. Tyrosvoutis, Miriam B. Torchinsky, Aung Myo Htut, Nay Win Tun, et al. "Low and stable rates of antenatal syphilis and HIV in migrant and refugee women on the Thai-Myanmar border: a descriptive study." F1000Research 3 (June 10, 2014): 123. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.4190.1.
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Objective: The antenatal prevalence of syphilis and HIV/AIDS in migrants and refugees is poorly documented. The aim of this study was to audit the first year of routine syphilis screening in migrant and refugee women on the Thai Myanmar border.Methods: From August 2012 to July 2013, 3600 pregnant women were screened for HIV (ELISA) and syphilis (VDRL with TPHA confirmation) at clinics along the Thai-Myanmar border.Results: Seroprevalence for HIV 0.47% (95% CI 0.30-0.76) (17/3,599), and syphilis 0.39% (95% CI 0.23-0.65) (14/3,592), were low. Syphilis was significantly lower in refugees (0.07% 95% CI 0.01-0.38) (1/1,469), than in migrants (0.61% 95% CI 0.36-1.04) (13/2,123). The three active (VDRL≥1:8 and TPHA reactive) syphilis cases with VDRL titres of 1:32 were easy to counsel and treat. Women with low VDRL titres (>75% were < 1:8) and TPHA reactive results, in the absence of symptoms and both the woman and her husband having only one sexual partner in their lifetime, and the inability to determine the true cause of the positive results presented ethical difficulties for counsellors.Conclusion: As HIV and syphilis testing becomes available in more and more settings, the potential impact of false positive results should be considered, especially in populations with low prevalence for these diseases. This uncertainty must be considered in order to counsel patients and partners accurately and safely about the results of these tests, without exposing women to increased risk for abuse or abandonment. Our findings highlight the complexities of counselling patients about these tests and the global need for more conclusive syphilis testing strategies.
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MAALI, Muneera Dawod, and Suad Yousef HAJJAJRAH. "THE ROLE OF PALESTINIAN WOMEN AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE PALESTINIAN NATIONAL STRUGGLE FATIMA AL-JAAFARI "A MODEL." RIMAK International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 04, no. 05 (September 1, 2022): 39–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.47832/2717-8293.19.3.
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The twentieth century witnessed a colonial conspiracy that led to the division of the Arab world in its Asian wing between the Western colonial countries (Britain and France). Britain sought, during its mandate for Palestine, to facilitate the establishment of the Zionist entity on its land, and since that time until this day the Palestinian national resistance in its various forms is still struggling to obtain independence. It is no secret to anyone that the Palestinian woman played a prominent role in confronting the Zionist occupation, and we will try, through our study, to present a picture of one of the Palestinian women fighters, who was able to prove to the world that the Palestinian refugee woman was and still is in the front lines facing the occupation to gain independence.
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Lan, Natasha. "Book Review: The Refugee Woman: Partition of Bengal, Gender, and the Political." Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees 36, no. 1 (April 25, 2020): 111–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.40771.
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Lawrence, Jeanette A., Shamiran S. Merkhaal, and Agnes E. Dodds. "Obstacles in the pathway to professional life for a Chaldean refugee woman." Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning 21, no. 2 (May 1, 2019): 86–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.5456/wpll.21.2.86.
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Bastaki, Jinan. "“Not Without My Daughter”: EU Asylum Law, Gender, and the Separation of Refugee Families." Refugee Survey Quarterly 38, no. 3 (August 7, 2019): 266–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdz006.
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Abstract When refugee families arrive in Europe and the children are over 18 years of age, in most cases, they are assessed separately for their asylum claim. Where applicants want to apply for family reunification, only spouses and minors who wish to be reunified with adult family members can automatically do so. This has caused problems for adult women who want to remain a part of their family or be reunified with family members in other European Union States. There is evidence that single women are more vulnerable to gender-based violence, whether in the refugee camps or on the dangerous journey from their homes to Europe, but that reason is not sufficient for family reunification. Through interviews with Arab women seeking to be reunified with their families, this article analyses the impact of the laws in the European Union, and specifically in Greece, on female asylum-seekers reaching the Greek island of Lesvos. It argues that the asylum laws have negative humanitarian consequences on asylum-seeking families, and because the act of seeking protection is different than other forms of migration, previous family structures should be recognised if the asylum-seeking woman so wishes, in order to ensure that these women are not made vulnerable.
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Walter-Jochum, Robert. "Affective Dynamics of Excitable Speech in Milo Rau’s Breiviks Erklärung and Mitleid." Theater 51, no. 2 (May 1, 2021): 96–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01610775-8920566.
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Robert Walter-Jochum reflects on the successes and failures of Milo Rau’s stage explorations of hate speech, investigating what Judith Butler terms “restaging and resignifying.” Walter-Jochum references two of Rau’s performances: Breivik’s Statement and Compassion: The History of the Machine Gun. Both pieces highlight the hypocrisy and similarities of rhetoric from right-wing terrorists and liberals with seemingly good intentions. Breivik’s Statement restages hate speech with an actor of color inverting the meaning of the speech, while Compassion restages a woman of color refugee reflecting on her childhood, while a white woman contemplates her time volunteering in the Congo. Walter-Jochum dissects each monologue, analyzing deeper meaning in Rau’s projects.
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McAlpine, Alyssa, Karen Kobayashi, Usha George, and Esme Fuller-Thomson. "Self-Reported Health of Working-Age Refugees, Immigrants, and the Canadian-Born." Advances in Public Health 2022 (October 13, 2022): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/9429242.
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Canada has a rapidly growing refugee population, yet, there are limited research studies on the physical health of working-age refugees in comparison to the health of immigrants and Canadian-born individuals. Investigating social capital and acculturation measures may provide important insights into the factors associated with good self-reported health and this may help to inform health promotion strategies for refugees in Canada. A secondary analysis was conducted on data collected from the Canadian General Social Survey 27 (GSS-27) comparing a sample of refugees (n = 753), immigrants (n = 5,063), and Canadian-born (n = 11,266) respondents between the ages of 15 and 64. Both bivariate and logistic regression analyses were conducted. Self-reported physical health, dichotomized into poor versus good, was the outcome of interest. The self-reported physical health status of refugees, immigrants, and Canadian-born respondents was comparable. Visible minority status was not significantly associated with self-reported health status. Among refugees, the likelihood of reporting good health was associated with being a woman, being married/common-law, being involved in a social group/organization, and having more than half of one’s friends who spoke a different mother tongue than the respondent. Refugees, however, were less likely to have a confidant and be involved in social groups/organizations as compared to immigrants or those born in Canada. The odds of reporting good health were significantly lower among those who had experienced discrimination within the last five years. Social capital and acculturation may be protective of the self-reported health of refugees in Canada. Initiatives to support refugees’ social connections are therefore warranted.
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Athina Ntager and Antigoni Sarantaki. "Perinatal experiences of resettled Syrian migrant women in Greece-a qualitative study." World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews 16, no. 1 (October 30, 2022): 280–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2022.16.1.1014.
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Background: Many women report that their privacy in hospitals was not respected and that their needs were totally ignored. A woman’s perinatal experience can be determinant for a woman’s life, introducing her into maternity either in a gentle way or causing her trauma. These findings can be used to improve health services in Greece. Aim: To identify the positive and negative life experiences of refugee women giving birth in Greece. Method: A qualitative interpretive design was used. Data were collected through face-to-face semi-structured interviews with 14 Syrian women. The majority were refugees that gave birth in Greece and only four with birthing experience in both Syria and Greece. Data were detailed interpreted and analyzed thematically. Results: “Numerous people were getting in and out of the room” emerged as one of the dominant themes, together with the communication difficulty due to the lack of translators. Women used the phrase “The main problem was the language’’ together with “I couldn’t ask for anything’’. Last but not least, women stated that the staff had racist behavior ‘’ Some of them, weren’t nice to me, they were racists’’. Another woman described “They made me feel inferior wearing my handkerchief’’. In addition to that, from this statement, it emerges that their religion had not been respected. Conclusion: This study discusses the experiences that Syrian migrant women have to go through in public hospitals, due to lack of privacy during their stay, communication problems as well as staff’s racist behavior. Overall, all these reasons lead to a traumatic experience and a degraded healthcare system.
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Huk, Mariia. "UKRAINIAN WOMEN DURING WORLD WAR I AS PRESENTED IN MODERN DAY THESIS STUDIES." Journal of Ukrainian History, no. 39 (2019): 104–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2522-4611.2019.39.13.
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The paper discusses the development trends of the available thesis studies, which fully discuss the participation of women in the times of World War I. The methodological basis of the paper is formed by general scientific and special historical methods of logical and historiographical analysis.The papers for analysis reveal the history of women in two hostilestates, namelythe Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires. It has been determined that there have beenwritten just a few thesis paperson gender-based issuesof the period of World War I. This is currently a developing. The available studies have demonstrated that the history of women during World War I has been generally explored in the context of acts of charity and solving the everyday issues of the war-engulfed towns. It has been proven that women did not occupy a passive position in the times of war. On the contrary, they took it upon themselves to aid as much as possible and performed the generally attributed “male” functions. The scholars are unanimous in their claims that World War I challenged the society's viewpointas to the status of women. The woman was forced to run her own household and at the same timebe the breadwinner for the family. Society did not condemn such zest, but on the contrary, encouraged women's work. Women began to master new professions, which previously were considered fit only for males. A woman working at the factory, or the railroad has become a commonplace phenomenon. Business ownersused this to their own benefit. Women were paid much less than men, allowing owners to save a substantial amount. Most women distinguished themselves by doing charity. Here, theywere able to show their talents and abilities most. Women of the royal family, nobility, the intellectual elite, and peasantry worked side by side for the benefit of their own military, wounded, and refugees. «Women's Committees» took over the guardianship of families that moved and lost almost everything; took care of the children left without parents, and women who lost their husbands. These committees watched over the production of clothes for the army and refugees, collected funds for pharmaceuticals for various medical institutions. Hospitals, shelters, dormitories had their own female guardian, who saw to the order and life of these «wards». At the front lines, in hospitals, in the places of refugee dislocations they helped with the functioning of the Russian Red Cross Society. The latter attracted not only experienced nurses, but also prepared and conducted training for all those interested. The Russian Red Cross Society had its own affiliations work closely with the local women's committees, opened refugee stations, created points of evacuation, collected funds for various needs, organized charity events. Some women scoured the front lines and defended their Fatherland. The scholars provide data on 37 women which served their country at the front lines as part of the medical teams. Among them were Elena Stepaniv, Sofia Galechko and many others. Whereas Evdokiya Chernyavskya from Odessa disguised herself as a man and went to serve in the Russian military. The focus on specific aspects of World War I allowed to reveal the other side of war, showing that it was not only a males bidding. Women did not stay aloof. Historysaw to it that women were represented both as certain communities the, women's organizations, society, committees and also the contributions of each and every individual. Yelizaveta Volodymyrivna, Efrosynia Mykolayivna, Olga Tereshchenko, Varvara Khannenko, Duchess M.O. Svyatopolk-Mirsky, Countess Tolstaya, Princess Demidova San Donato, Princess Branycka, Elyzaveta, and Vira Lopukhin-Demidov were unveiled as well-known philanthropists.They opened hospitalsin their estates,and workshops for the manufacture of medical instruments. At their own expense they tended to the wounded, and if it was necessary, helped out themselves in hospitals. The analysis of the available thesis papers has shown that it is necessary to conduct a historical analysis on the role ofwomen during World War I. Many issues have remained unpublished, thus there are many possibilities for further research.
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van der Veer, Lieke. "Guessing games with target groups : Securing a livelihood by supporting refugees in a hostile environment." Intersections 7, no. 2 (2021): 32–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.17356/ieejsp.v7i2.797.
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In the wake of mass-migrations of refugees seeking safety and stability in Europe, this contribution studies emerging grassroots organizations that support refugee status holders in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The municipality expects these organizations to adhere to the European trend to incorporate immigrant integration priorities in interventions that apply to all residents. The article discusses the paradox of how bureaucratic classifications regarding preferred target groups cast certain grassroots responses as fringe-activities that are less legible bureaucratically. Based on a year of ethnographic fieldwork, this article shows how this lessened legibility translates into profound insecurities for grassroots organizers. The article discusses how these insecurities, in combination with the uncertainty grassroots organizers feel regarding their employability, motivate them to play guessing games and to give in to municipal preferences to boost their eligibility for funding. It argues that this process of giving in to municipal preferences should be understood as an attempt to render their endeavors legible, reduce precariousness, secure a livelihood, and turn affective labor into a life-sustaining practice. In so doing, this contribution evokes the story of a particular grassroots organizer—a woman of color with a forced migration background.
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Roy, Sara. "Palestinian Women: Patriarchy and Resistance in the West Bank. By Cheryl A. Rubenberg. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2001. 318p. $59.95." American Political Science Review 96, no. 3 (September 2002): 671. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003055402840369.
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Several years ago, not long before the signing of the Oslo agreement, I was in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. As I was walking through the camp with a male friend, a woman whom I did not know approached me. She gently took my arm as if we were intimate friends, pulled me close, and said, “I have nothing left to feed my children but black milk.” She then turned and walked away, leaving as imperceptibly as she had approached. My male friend immediately dismissed her as crazy. Yet I have never forgotten this woman or our momentary but wrenching encounter. It was not only the poignancy of her words that struck me, but their poetry. Her message to me was one of ultimate despair: I can no longer nourish my children. What good am I?
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Kalmanowitz, Debra. "Polarities and Dualities: East West Perspectives in Art Therapy with a Refugee Woman from Central Africa." Creative Arts in Education and Therapy 3, no. 1 (December 1, 2017): 44–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.15212/caet/2017/17/5.
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Wishah, Um Jabr. "Palestinian Voices: Scenes of Everyday Life in Bayt 'Affa." Journal of Palestine Studies 35, no. 2 (January 1, 2006): 75–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jps.2006.35.2.75.
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The following excerpts were taken from the ““life history”” of Um Jabr Wishah, one of seven ““life histories”” collected as part of an oral history project, as yet unpublished, of seven women living in various parts of the Gaza Strip who were old enough to have clear memories of the pre-1948 period. The women were selected on the basis of some previous knowledge of them and their stated willingness to take part in the project. The ““histories,”” collected over the last six months of 2001, range from 25,000 to 40,000 words and cover the narrators' everyday life and experiences through the successive wars and disruptions as well as their thoughts about the future. Each woman was interviewed a number of times, with the tape of each interview transcribed and translated before the following interview. The memories were set down exactly as they were told; the only ““editing”” consists of integrating details or elaborations supplied during subsequent interviews at the appropriate chronological place. The life histories were collected by Barbara Bill, an Australian who worked with the Women's Empowerment Project of the Gaza Community Mental Health Program starting from 1996, and Ghada Ageel, a refugee from a Gaza camp now working on her Ph.D. in Middle Eastern politics at the University of Exeter in England. Um Jabr, who was in her early 70s at the time of the interviews, has been living in the al-Bureij refugee camp since 1950. Future issues of JPS will carry excerpts from Um Jabr's story regarding the 1948 war and about organizing prison visits in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Löschnigg, Martin. "Who Was He? Internment, Exile and Ambiguity in Norbert Gstrein’s Novel Die englischen Jahre (The English Years) (1999)." Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, no. 30/3 (September 1, 2021): 47–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.7311/0860-5734.30.3.04.
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Winner of the Alfred Döblin Preis in 1999, the novel Die englischen Jahre by the Austrian novelist Norbert Gstrein deals with internment and exile in Britain dur- ing and after the Second World War. It centres on the (fictitious) character of Gabriel Hirschfelder, a writer and refugee from Nazi-occupied Austria who is detained, with oth- er ‘enemy aliens,’ in a camp on the Isle of Man. There, Nazi sympathisers are interned together with Jewish and political refugees, and the central chapters in the novel depict the conditions and resulting conflicts in the internment camp. Hirschfelder dies in exile at Southend-on-Sea, having confessed shortly before his death that he killed a fellow inmate. This confession as well as reports of a transport of internees sunk off the coast of Scotland in 1940 incite a young Austrian woman to try to solve the mystery surrounding Hirschfelder and his allegedly lost autobiography The English Years. The paper discusses how Gstrein combines different genres like the historical novel/historiographic metafic- tion and the whodunit as well as using multiple narrative perspectives and refractions to pinpoint questions of shifting identities and allegiances, and of belonging and alienation in the wake of internment and exile.
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Chrostowsky, MaryBeth. "The Role of Asylum Location on Refugee Adjustment Strategies: The Case of Sudanese in San Diego, California." Practicing Anthropology 32, no. 1 (December 25, 2009): 38–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/praa.32.1.a38177g14h015533.
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Upon resettlement in receiving countries, refugees face many challenges and experience enormous stress. Researchers agree that the greater the gap between the culture of a refugee's home country and that of the host country, the more stress refugees will experience. This disparity is especially true for Sudanese refugees resettling in the United States who moved from a rural setting within a so-called Third World country to an urban setting in an industrialized nation. The stress that results from these changes can both overwhelm and hinder a refugee's adjustment. The experiences of Sudanese women and men who resettled in San Diego, California are explored here to examine the role of the initial asylum environment as a potential influence on refugees' strategies as they confront the challenges of adjustment. The participants in this study averaged 5.4 years in either Cairo, Egypt or in Kakuma refugee camp in northern Kenya before coming to San Diego. Disparate asylum environments, including cultural norms, political ideologies, laws, employment opportunities, and educational resources found in these places created different changes in the daily gendered behavioral patterns of these Sudanese refugees after they arrived in the United States.
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Klassen, Amanda. "From Vulnerability to Empowerment: Critical Reflections on Canada’s Engagement with Refugee Policy." Laws 11, no. 2 (March 10, 2022): 22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/laws11020022.
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The making and implementation of global policy are prominent areas of activity for the global refugee regime, with a specific focus on policy relating to the categories of vulnerable refugees. Recent collective efforts globally have highlighted the importance of meaningfully including refugees themselves; and a discursive shift away from the language of vulnerability towards that of empowerment in policy making, and humanitarian assistance. Despite this, efforts to implement these commitments have largely been unsuccessful, raising questions about how refugees are engaged in these processes, and in what ways the label of vulnerable continues to influence the making and implementation of global refugee policy. Using the case of Canada’s engagement with the global refugee regime, and with refugee women in particular, this article argues that the continued framing of refugee women as vulnerable has impeded progress, and that for transformative policy to be realized, refugee women must be seen as actors with capacity to participate, and must be included in all processes of policy making, implementation and evaluation. A feminist geopolitical framework is presented as a way to decenter states and institutions in favor of centering the individual embodied experiences of refugee women in global refugee policy making. By doing so, empowerment can be realized in policy and practice.
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Dogutas, Aysun. "Gender Based Violence against Syrian Refugee Women in Turkey." Border Crossing 9, no. 2 (December 28, 2019): 113–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.33182/bc.v9i2.811.
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Following the outbreak of war in Syria, many people had to move to neighbouring countries and beyond. Hence Turkey received a large number of Syrians as refugees since 2011. Syrian refugee women faced challenges arising from them being refugees and women. These experiences are not dissimilar to other refugee women’s experiences around the world. This study aimed at analysing the news about Syrian refugee women in Turkish newspapers. Four well established Turkish newspapers with nationwide distribution (i.e. Habertürk, Cumhuriyet, Hürriyet and Internethaber) were screened between 2015 and 2019. It was found that Syrian women refugees faced gender-based violence in Turkey. Their experiences as concubines, and in prostitution as well as sexual assaults were mentioned in the news articles we have analysed.
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Blomfield, Isobel, and Caroline Lenette. "Anonymity and representation." Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, no. 18 (December 1, 2019): 175–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/alpha.18.13.
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The five-minute film Mouth of a Shark (Isobel Blomfield, 2018) conveys a young woman’s experiences and precarious situation while she awaits an outcome on her refugee status determination in Australia. Aasiya (pseudonym) lives in community detention. Her interest in creating the film stemmed from her own acknowledgement that she had a platform as a young, literate asylum seeker woman with a “strong” story, and was therefore in a position to portray asylum seekers in a positive light. However, she cannot be identified in the film, even though it depicts her story, due to concerns over safety and her claim for asylum. We use this example to illustrate issues of anonymity and representation, and suggest strategies in line with our commitment to avoid depersonalising tropes in filmmaking. While we are committed to ensuring that people from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds exercise agency in filmmaking, protecting Aasiya’s identity had to prevail. We wanted to avoid depersonalising tropes, and instead devised filming strategies that were more respectful of the protagonist and, within the constraint of anonymity, ensured that Aasiya could still represent her story in meaningful ways. We argue for an ethical model that reconciles the need for both anonymity and representation in filmmaking, especially through collaborative editing.
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Simonova, Olga A. "BUILDING OF AN AVERAGE WOMAN IMAGE IN MEMOIRS ON MAKHNOVSHCHINA." Vestnik slavianskikh kul’tur [Bulletin of Slavic Cultures] 58 (2020): 225–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2020-58-225-234.
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The study addresses the memoirs of Natalia Sukhogorskaya “The memory of the Makhnovshchina” (1927) to restore the life of an ordinary woman under the power of Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine. In the Nestor Makhno’s capital Huliaipole, autobiographical heroine immerses herself in the atmosphere filled with legends about Makhno. Thus the author generates two narrative tendencies: autobiographical and folkloric ones. The rumors nurture the autobiographical heroine’s fears. From this perspective, author shows the identities of the heroine. The first of them — the motherhood — is not jeopardized under Makhno since he is friendly to children. The second is the refugee. Affiliation to the female sex also protects Sukhogorskaya under the rebels` sway. School as her job gives her an inviolable status. Her more vulnerable position is related to her identity as intelligentsia representative, seeing that the rebels didn’t like this social stratum. The perspectives of author and autobiographical heroine are often intersecting, yet the paper proves able to clarify the author’s functions who acts as a writer giving characteristics of internal movements of his personages. The author also appears as a historian who generalizes in hindsight and as a folklorist who records and reproduces oral stories, legends and rumors of the Civil war times. Fear for the life and the desire to survive become main motivators for the residents during the war, so that against this backdrop the author`s political views remain unclear.
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Kuljic, Blagoje. "Cognitive-behavioral therapy of conversion aphonia." Vojnosanitetski pregled 61, no. 6 (2004): 695–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/vsp0406695k.
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Although a common disease, conversion disorder still calls attention in the clinical practice. A case of conversion disorder, diagnosed as a psychogenic aphonia that persisted for a week, was reported in this paper. A 21-year-old woman developed symptoms after breaking off a long-lasting relationship with her boy-friend. History revealed that she was introvert with high neuroticism and communication problems. Cognitive-behavioral therapy was used. After the positive reinforcement in the therapy of her aphonia, assertion training for the development of communication skills was performed. In the end, cognitive restructuring was used to prevent relapse in regard to her actual life situation of being a refugee preparing for immigration to Australia.
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Frost, Caren J., Nathaniel J. Morgan, Hayder Allkhenfr, Susan Dearden, Rebekah Ess, Wafi Fawzan Albalawi, Allyson Berri, L. Scott Benson, and Lisa H. Gren. "Determining Physical and Mental Health Conditions Present in Older Adult Refugees: A Mini-Review." Gerontology 65, no. 3 (August 21, 2018): 209–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000491695.
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In 2017, there were over 65 million displaced persons at the global level, with approximately 23 million of these people living as refugees around the world. In this same year, the US resettled 53,716 refugees, with the State of Utah receiving 954 of those refugees. Refugees, in general, often face health-related challenges upon resettlement. Since the health of aging refugee men and women is of growing concern, host communities face significant challenges in accommodating the health needs of a diverse refugee population. This study, a review of physical and mental health data from the Utah Department of Health, was undertaken in an effort to ascertain the prevalence of health conditions among refugee men and women 60 years and older arriving in Utah. Findings include information on diseases correlated with increasing age, such as hypertension, decreases in vision, arthritis, and low back pain, which are common among this population of refugees aged 60 years and older. Overall, most of the health conditions assessed affect women and men with a similar prevalence. Some notable exceptions are a history of torture and violence, and a propensity for tobacco use. When dealing with refugee men older than 60 years, providers should consider the psychological ramifications of having endured such atrocities, as well as introduction to evidence-based tobacco cessation programs. When working with refugee women of the same age, an increase in the prevalence of musculoskeletal pain and urinary tract infections should be considered.