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Journal articles on the topic "Women refugees – Syria"
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Gülerce, Hakan. "Migration and Uncertainties: The Ordeal of Syrian Women Refugees with Missing Spouses." Journal of Humanity and Society (insan & toplum) 10, no. 3 (September 2020): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.12658/v0001.
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The ongoing civil war in Syria has caused millions of people to migrate across the border in order to save their lives. However, as they reached on safer grounds, they were left homeless. This migration has been occurring intensively to countries with borders neighboring Syria. Turkey has the highest number of refugees among Syria’s neighboring countries, harboring close to four million Syrian refugees. There are only a small proportion of the Syrian refugee population living in temporary accommodation centers as the larger part is scattered throughout the various provinces of Turkey. Although they encounter certain problems that relate to different provinces, most of the troubles experienced by the refugees are common to all of them.
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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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Alsheikh Ali, Ahmad Sa’ad Saleh. "Efficiency of Intervention Counseling Program on the Enhanced Psychological Well-being and Reduced Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms Among Syrian Women Refugee Survivors." Clinical Practice & Epidemiology in Mental Health 16, no. 1 (July 30, 2020): 134–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1745017902016010134.
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Background: The number of individuals displaced from their original countries due to civil wars, hunger, disasters, and international wars is increasing worldwide day by day. These refugees are more vulnerable to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Objective: The present study aimed to examine the effectiveness of the intervention program in improving the well-being and reducing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among a sample of Syrian refugee women in Jordan who had been displaced due to civil wars in Syria. Methods: The study recruited 40 Syrian refugee females in Jordan who were psychologically challenged, with high PTSD symptoms (assessed by PCL) and a psychological well-being impairment (assessed by PWD). The culture of Jordanian society discriminates and affects the Syrian refugee women, rendering them vulnerable to PTSD. Quasi-experimental design was used, wherein the participants were randomly distributed in experimental and control groups (n=20/group). The control group members did not receive any services related to psychological support or psychiatric medications, while the experimental group underwent a counseling program. Results: The present study demonstrated that the intervention program improves the well-being and reduces PTSD among the Syrian refugee women who constituted the experimental group. The intervention program and the PTSD manifestation were not affected by age. The present study recommended that the program be applied to the refugees in Jordan to improve the well-being of the women in the residential areas. Conclusion: Furthermore, an intervention on the Jordanian cultural impact on the refugee camps was also essential if the condition for the female refugees worsened. Lastly, the effect of Jordanian culture on Syrian refugees should be investigated since the literature presented a negative impact.
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Ziter, Edward Blaise. "The Syria Trojan Women: Rethinking the public with therapeutic theater." Communication and the Public 2, no. 2 (May 31, 2017): 177–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2057047317711956.
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Therapeutic theater projects with Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon work at the intersection of the public and the private, facilitating individual healings while also promoting new group identities. The playing space becomes an open discursive field in which varied understandings of the self become platforms for new understandings of the nation. In the process, these artists/refugees trouble the boundaries between the private and the public, potentially creating a new public sphere that is not only revolutionary in its critique of entrenched political power but in its reformulation of the idea of the public itself. This article examines one such project, The Syria Trojan Woman, directed by Omar Abu Saada. The article places this work in the context of Abu Saada’s work in applied theater in Syria prior to the uprising and within the larger context of Syrian political theater. Applied theater, an umbrella term designating performance valued as efficacious as well as aesthetic, has had a brief and difficult history in Syria because of its capacity to undermine the regulation of speech. In the case of The Syria Trojan Woman, this speech has traveled beyond the countries hosting refugees through the efforts of non-governmental organizations that bring additional fundraising and consciousness-raising objectives to the endeavor. Through international tours and the use of new media, local performances become international phenomenon, further complicating the idea of a revolutionary public sphere.
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Nasser Eddin, Nof, and Nof Nasser-Eddin. "Palestinian Refugees: A Gendered Perspective." Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal 3, no. 1 (September 17, 2015): 96–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v3i1.127.
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This article argues that the situation of Palestinian refugees is still relevant till this day. There are around five million refugees living in neighbouring Arab countries, such as Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Egypt, as well as neighbouring areas in Palestine itself, like the West Bank and Gaza Strip, under very precarious conditions. Their situation is extremely unstable as any changes in the region can influence them directly.
The need to address this issue is particularly important because Palestinian refugees (as well as internally displaced Palestinians) have been both historically and politically marginalised. In particular, I will argue for a need to gender the debate around the Palestinian refugees, because the distinct experience of women Palestinian refugees has been overlooked within this context. Most literature has focused on the Palestinian refugees as a holistic population, which assumes all refugees share the same struggle. However, understanding the position of women within the context of the refugees and the unique struggles they face is essential to understanding their particular experiences as refugees and in highlighting their differential needs; this is why a feminist perspective is needed within the field of refugee studies.
This article is based on a feminist journey drawing on research interviews with female Palestinian refugees in camps in Jordan, and with Syrian Palestinian women in Turkey, Jordan and Europe.
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Arzu Yavuz, Gökçe N. Küçükbaş, Erdem Gürkan, and Ünal Türkay. "Cesarian deliveries among Syrian refugel and Turkish pregnant women: A retrospective cohort study." Actual Questions of Modern Gynecology and Perinatology 9, no. 4 (February 1, 2023): 47–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.28942/mgpam.v9i4.91.
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The Syrian civil war began and led to a mass migration of Syrians. Almost for a decade, Syrian refugees have been welcomed by Turkey, one of the neighbouring countries of Syria, with support of the European Union. According to reports, in February 2022, officially 3,746,544 Syrian refugees were accomodated in Turkey [1]. The high number of Syrian refugees tend to move to Kocaeli, an industrial city close to Istanbul offering better job possibilities for immigrants. Unfortunately, migration leads not only to loss of housing and occupation, but also difficulty in obtaining health care. Previous studies showed that Syrian women who migrated to Kocaeli, Turkey, tend to bear children at earlier gestational and maternal ages, including adolescent mothers and their infants with lower birth weights [2,3]. All of these might be a result of difficulty in obtaining health care, malnutrition and language barriers.
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Shanneik, Yafa, and Elisabeth Sobieczky. "Artistic Methodologies in Forced Migration: Using Body Mapping and Augmented Reality in Syrian Refugees’ Narratives." Arts 12, no. 2 (February 27, 2023): 46. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts12020046.
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Millions of refugees fleeing war and persecution in Syria have received significant attention in both the public sphere and academic research. This article examines body mapping and augmented reality (AR) as artistic methodological tools that allow refugees to articulate their experiences of forced migration. Body mapping enables the creation of life-sized images which trace the contours of the individual’s body on canvas allowing refugees to express their emotions creatively through their own participation. AR adds another layer to the body map as it animates the artwork and brings it to life. Through body mapping and AR, refugee women from Syria are able to co-create research outcomes and counter gender-biased narratives of vulnerability and victimhood often associated with female Muslim refugees. This project critically engages with the use of art as a sensorialized medium to generate knowledge and examines the impact it shows on viewers during exhibitions. Based on research conducted in the United Kingdom, Germany and Jordan since 2017, this article discusses the use of these new technologies as novel research methodologies in refugee and migration studies.
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Akdeniz Göker, Eylem. "Changing Borders and Women as the Narrator: The Case of Syrian Circassians." Journal of Applied And Theoretical Social Sciences 5, no. 1 (March 29, 2023): 19–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.37241/jatss.2023.82.
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Since 2011, with the Syrian conflict, a sizeable portion of the Syrian Circassian diaspora have fled to Turkey. The experience of deportation due to the Syrian civil war exposed the community to the same trauma for the third time. However, as the refugees were forced to leave their country, they experienced different conditions than their Arab and Kurdish counterparts. Utilizing solidarity networks through their kinship relations, the Circassian diaspora appears to have avoided the hardships encountered by other refugee groups at least to some an extent. In the meantime, the diaspora developed new survival strategies in the face of general negative attitudes towards refugees and Syrians. The recent diasporic experience has been generally discussed with regards to issues of social class, ethnic affiliation, and distinction. Yet, the gendered dimension of the recent forced migration has been underestimated or neglected. This study aims to understand whether the women within the Circassian community who migrated from Syria to Turkey generated new forms of roles to meet the social demands of the new diasporic experience. The evidence discussed here is based on fieldwork that was conducted in 2019. One of the significant findings to be assessed in this study is the reinforcement of the patriarchy within the diaspora and the factors that facilitated this process.
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Dalky, Heyam Fawaz, Abeer Qandil, and Amani A. Alqawasmi. "Factors Associated With Undernutrition Among Pregnant and Lactating Syrian Refugee Women in Jordan." Global Journal of Health Science 10, no. 4 (March 5, 2018): 58. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v10n4p58.
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BACKGROUND: Maternal undernutrition is a public health issue and is reported to cause life-long and irreversible damage, with consequences at the individual, community, and national level. Many factors are reported to impact nutritional status for refugee pregnant or lactating women. Recently, Jordan has accepted an influx of refugees from Syria. Maternal undernutrition in pregnant and lactating Syrian women poses significant health risks.OBJECTIVE: To identify the relationship of undernutrition to underlying causes of socio-demographic, health and obstetric care, psychological wellbeing, social support, and marital violence among pregnant and lactating Syrian women attending obstetric outpatient clinics in Jordan.METHODS: The study was a cross-sectional assessment of 423 pregnant and lactating Syrian refugee women of established households within Jordan. Self-report questionnaires and anthropometric measurements were primary data sources.RESULTS: 49.2% (n=208) of participants were categorized as undernutrition (undernourished), a problem that is more prevailing among pregnant than lactating women. Statistical significance association was found for the variables extended family type, availability of health services, regular exercise, the trimester of pregnancy, low birth weight of the baby, and psychological well-being, when examined against undernutrition status.CONCLUSION: Undernutrition is a significant health issue among women of reproductive age. This study is a building block for further research, yet it provides basic information on the effect of undernourishment on pregnant and lactating Syrian refugee women.
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Al Jazairi, Rania. "Transitional Justice in Syria: The Role and Contribution of Syrian Refugees and Displaced Persons." Middle East Law and Governance 7, no. 3 (November 28, 2015): 336–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18763375-00703002.
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To date, an estimated 9 million Syrians have fled their homes since the beginning of the conflict in 2011. While over 3 million have fled to Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq, 6.5 million are internally displaced within Syria. Whereas most research has focused on examining Syrian refugees’ status and living conditions in host countries; few studies aimed to document their views and perceptions about transitional justice processes, including reparation issues and how they perceived a durable and sustainable peace in Syria. This paper focuses on Syrian refugees and displaced persons’ role and contribution to transitional justice processes. It explores their views and perceptions about a wide range of political, civil, social, economic and cultural issues, including accountability, reparation, the nature of the future governance system, Syria’s cultural identity, the rights of minorities and women, reconstruction and development priorities and Demilitarization, Demobilization and Reintegration (ddr) issues.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Women refugees – Syria"
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Alhayek, Katty. "Activism, Communication Technologies, and Syrian Refugees Women's Issues." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1417784369.
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Skeiker, Amer. "Challenging Gender Roles within Humanitarian Crisis : Predominant Patriarchal Structures before the Humanitarian Crisis and its Relation to the Identity and Experiences of Women refugees during and after the Humanitarian Crisis. A Case Study of Syria." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-317423.
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One purpose of this study is to examine how predominant patriarchal practices can affect the experiences of women refugees. This study also examines how the gender roles and patriarchal practices may change during a conflict. A theoretical framework was constructed to examine the patriarchal practices through radical feminism approach. Also, possible ways of social change within a conflict is examined. Empirically, the Syrian conflict is selected for the case study. In order to answer the research questions, 26 semi-structured interviews were conducted to track any possible social change in the patriarchal practices in Syria during the conflict in comparison to before the conflict. The main two findings of this study are that a change did occur in the patriarchal practices in which women did achieve more freedom and more independence during the conflict in Syria. However, there were increased patriarchal practices when women became refugees outside Syria, in which there was less freedom and less independence for Syrian women, especially the less educated women.
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Istanbouli, Yasmin. "Depoliticizing The Identities of Refugee Women." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1264.
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"My name is..." // "...اسمي" is a photo series that aims to depoliticize the highly politicized identity of the Arab, female refugee. Due to the growing number of refugees being forced out of their homes and displaced all around the globe, their collective existence has turned into a number. The world only sees one image when they think of an Arab refugee; the suffering, hopeless body of an Arab, struggling to cross borders. The world is not exposed to the real experiences of these individuals, and their stories remain untold. With this project, I aim to share these stories. Female refugees have unique experiences as women, and as mothers. They hold specific responsibilities within the displaced family and community as a whole. Each of them carry different narratives, different hopes and dreams. Combining their stories alongside the photos will help humanize them and show a side to them that the mainstream media fails to show, a side that doesn’t drastically differ from the experiences of people all over the world, no matter where they are from.
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Lasic, Lara. "Digital Social Entrepreneurship and the Path to Ending Intimate Partner Violence in the Syrian Refugee Population." Thesis, Boston College, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108009.
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Thesis advisor: Natana DeLong-BasThe Syrian Civil War and its displacement of individuals has led to a dramatic increase in intimate partner violence (IPV) among refugee women. Statistics display that 99% of IPV survivors undergo financial control and exploitation, making it difficult to leave these toxic relationships. In 2016, UN Women created a cash-for-work initiative in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan intended to provide Jordanian and Syrian refugee women with protection through financial empowerment. The initiative was quickly successful, showing a 20% decrease in intimate partner violence. My research over the past year builds on this logic to explore digital social entrepreneurship as a manner of addressing IPV within the Syrian refugee population in Jordan. I argue that digital social entrepreneurship, ICT startups with a greater social mission, is key to addressing many of the MENA region’s most pressing issues post Arab Spring, as well as beneficial to empowering women. My analysis culminated in a policy recommendation for a cross sectional program to give refugee women in Jordan the resources they need to establish their own digital, socially conscious firms and establish a place for themselves and their families in both the Jordanian and Syrian post civil war economy
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2018
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Departmental Honors
Discipline: Islamic Civilization and Societies
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Beattie, Ebba. "“The mother was incredibly brave” : Comparing representations of refugee women from Syria in national and local Swedish newspapers through content analysis." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-43354.
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During the so-called ‘migration crisis’ of 2015, 51,338 Syrians applied for asylum in Sweden. First, Swedish politicians called for Swedes to ‘open their hearts’, public support was strong, and media coverage was full of possibilities and humanizing images. As the crisis developed, Sweden’s generous asylum legislation switched to the EU minimum, the political climate toughened and media’s positive frames soon shifted to discussing negative consequences. This degree project focuses on those least visible in the media’s representation of the migration crisis – refugee women. By using Chouliaraki and Zaborowski’s (2017) model ‘voice by narrative’, it answers the research question; How are refugee women from Syria represented in national and local Swedish newspapers?, as well as the following sub-questions: What news frames are used in texts where Syrian women are featured? In what ways are refugee women given visibility and space to speak? What types of representations, wording, and stereotypes are used? What differences can be found between 2015 and 2020, national and local newspapers? The project examines news frames, gendered representations, typical stereotypes, visibility, and space given to Syrian women in Swedish newspapers. It does so by content analysis of newspaper articles from three newspapers published in 2015 and 2020. The project uses theories of othering, intersectionality, and post-colonial power structures as well as literature on representations in European media during the migration crisis to understand representations, voice, and news frames in Swedish newspapers. The results indicated that refugee women are often silenced and spoken of instead of given space to speak. The most commonly used news frames among the analyzed texts were negative geopolitical and women were often decontextualized. Victimization and normalization were the most commonly used stereotypes assigned to refugee women. The majority of representations of refugee women were collective and the women were in many ways othered. Refugee women are othered, decontextualized, silenced, and collectivized, which will have its consequences as they are methods that limit refugee women’s status and position in society – maintaining their position as ‘others’ in Swedish society.
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Kallas, Nadine. "Understanding the perspectives of Syrian refugee women toward their health and physical activity needs as they become integrated into Canadian society." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/63146.
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The inclusion of migration as a predictor of health is seen as a significant advancement in Canadian health research. However, further investigation concerning the health outcomes of different immigrant groups has been suggested, especially refugees whose health statuses may be lower than voluntary migrants (Vang et al., 2015). Physical inactivity has been reported by the female immigrant population as a result of migration stressors and barriers to participation in Western communities. With a specific focus on Syrian refugee women, this study used a feminist interpretive approach to examine their health and physical activity needs as they settle into Canadian society. The purpose was to examine how their views and lifestyles have been influenced by their integration into Western culture as well as to determine the roles of settlement-related support systems in this transition. Using qualitative research methods, Syrian women who have recently settled in the Metro Vancouver region (n=11, <2 years in Canada, 18+ years old) were identified and interviewed. Data was coded using Nvivo software and themes from interview transcripts were established using thematic analysis. A number of definitions of health were provided by the women early in the interviews where they attributed the maintenance of health to specific behaviors and qualities. These behaviours were also reflected in actions taken to attain healthy lifestyles. Since coming to Canada, the majority of the women reported a better overall state of health despite some experiencing mental health issues. Improvements in health status were primarily linked to an increase in accessibility to resources and healthcare, as well as to their increased physical activity levels in Canada. Social supports provided them with the ability to deal more effectively with their existing struggles as well as empowering them to challenge cultural and gender norms. Participation in formal physical activity pursuits and other forms of community engagement was limited for some women, however, due to the time required to fulfill other settlement needs. My findings suggest that this group of women have demonstrated a degree of resiliency in developing healthy lifestyles but clearly require more time and specific forms of support to achieve their goals.Education, Faculty of
Kinesiology, School of
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"Exploring Health and Wellness for Syrian Refugees." Doctoral diss., 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.57096.
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abstract: The number of refugees experiencing displacement is 25.9 million worldwide, with the majority in the last 7 years from Syria. While international government organizations and researchers have called for assessment of refugee health and wellness, research in this vulnerable population is limited. This dissertation is built around humanizing refugee research on health and wellness. The introduction in Chapter 1 provides an overview for the three resulting chapters which are (a) a grounded theory study to gain insight into the lives of Syrian refugees living in displacement; (b) a systematic literature review on wellness in Syrian refugees in displacement; and (c) a concept analysis to examine wellness from the perspective of Syrian refugee women within the context of displacement. Chapter 5 includes the summary, discussion, and recommendations for future research.
Chapter 2 consists of three themes which shaped the lives of Syrian refugees during displacement: (a) assets and deficits; (b) official obstacles and supports; and (c) unofficial obstacles and supports. Health emerged as a priority for the refugees which included many dimensions related to the quality of their health and health needs. The results of Chapter 2 precipitated in using wellness as a holistic lens to view Syrian refugee’s health and health needs in Chapter 3. The results of Chapter 3 added a more holistic view of Syrian refugee health, while highlighting the need for improved research methods addressing wellness in Syrian refugees. Chapter 4 clarifies and defines wellness from the perspective of Syrian refugee women.Dissertation/Thesis
Doctoral Dissertation Nursing and Healthcare Innovation 2020
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Nural, Yusuf. "Pathways to alienation?: a study on the refugee experiences of a group of young Syrian women through the lens of alienation." Master's thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/16836.
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Turkey hosts the world’s largest number of refugees with just over 2.9 million Syrians as of
April 2017, out of which nearly half are children and teenagers. Having been provided free
access to education, healthcare, lawful residence and protection from involuntary refoulement,
family reunification and formal employment, Turkey has undoubtedly been demonstrating a
great support for Syrians. Though, the vast majority of Syrians in Turkey are still living in
urban, peri-urban and rural areas under poor housing conditions and struggling to generate
income and secure their access to welfare benefits. There are still hundreds of thousands Syrian
children out of school and only a very small minority of Syrian youth are enrolled in higher
education.
With these adversities in mind, this study aimed at analysing and gaining an understanding into
the lives of a group of Syrian refugee girls and young women in Turkey, from their perspectives,
by using the concept of alienation which is mainly represented by social isolation and
powerlessness variants. Accordingly, the research questions focused on: what factors prevent
them realising their wishes and desires at time of interview and in their futures; and their
perceptions as to the changes in their relationships with their peers, family and the surrounding
community members after their displacement. Addressing these issues were considered
important since the course of the conflict in Syria and Turkey’s reception policies showed that
Syrians are not guests anymore, as they were considered at the outset by the Turkish authorities.
Therefore, their lack of socioeconomic adaptation in Turkey and social isolation from their
acquaintances and social milieu and the majority society would amount to a large number of
marginalized and detached group of Syrians in the long term.
The empirical data of this study was collected through semi-structured interviews with ten
Syrian young women between 17 and 21-years-old. The sample is biased towards females since
they have traditionally been secluded in the middle eastern countries including Syria, which
motivated this study to reach them. Findings show that, complex interplay of previously
established gender norms, male originated safety concerns, and structural and financial
deficiencies hamper participants’ power and control over their educational opportunities and
freedom of movement and deprives them from meaningful social interactions outside of their
domestic spheres. Besides this, their opportunities to have meaningful, supportive, warm and
dependable relationships were found to be impaired with loss of or separation from their peers
and family members; a lack of Turkish language competency, a lack of quality family time and
lastly, weak ties among Syrians.
It is contended that, alienation is a useful concept to understand their refugee experiences from
a different point of view, yet it is fundamental to revisit it in relation to adolescence, gender,
social norms and refugees for future research. Lastly, this study advocates for culturally
sensitivity and a holistic approach in social work practice and points out the needs of language
training, education and employment opportunities, and safe and accessible social and
recreational facilities for Syrian girls and young women in Turkey.
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Richard, Myriam. "Au-delà du sens commun : reconsidérer la vulnérabilité de femmes réfugiées en provenance de Syrie détenant la responsabilité principale du soutien de leur famille au Québec et au Liban." Thèse, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/23700.
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Ce mémoire de maitrise en travail social porte sur les expériences de femmes réfugiées en provenance de Syrie détenant la responsabilité principale du soutien financier et des soins au quotidien de leur famille au Québec/Canada et au Liban. Le questionnement au cœur de cette recherche est issu du constat que les femmes qui assument cette responsabilité en contexte d’exil sont le plus souvent ciblées comme étant d’emblée vulnérables par les instances de gouvernance de la migration forcée, sans que l’on sache toutefois très bien comment elles vivent réellement ces réalités (Freedman, 2017). Bien qu’elle s’avère une des pierres angulaires du système de protection des personnes réfugiées, la vulnérabilité des femmes réfugiées fait rarement l’objet d’une définition en dehors du sens commun l’associant au risque d’être blessée. L’approche féministe transnationale (Mohanty, 2003; Zeweri, 2017; McLaren, 2017) a été mobilisée dans le cadre d’une démarche qualitative de type exploratoire se basant sur 12 entrevues de type récits de vie effectuées avec des femmes réfugiées détenant la responsabilité principale du soutien financier et des soins au quotidien de leur famille (5 au Québec et 7 au Liban). Elle visait d’une part à documenter leurs expériences et d’autre part à reconsidérer la notion de vulnérabilité au-delà du sens commun, en analysant leurs récits à travers le prisme du concept de vulnérabilité ambivalente (Oliviero, 2016). Les résultats de la recherche ont clairement démontré que les femmes rencontrées doivent faire face à de nombreuses formes de violences et de marginalisations, mais qu’elles sont également exposées à des opportunités transformatrices et à des expériences qui s’inscrivent dans la continuité de leurs trajectoires de vie (Oliviero, 2016; Grace, 2018; Zeweri, 2017). L’impact de la migration sur les dynamiques familiales est ressorti comme élément central de leurs préoccupations et fait l’objet d’un article scientifique présentant les résultats de recherche (à soumettre). Les femmes ont mentionné se sentir responsables d’agir pour soutenir et protéger les membres de leur famille et elles-mêmes, induisant ainsi qu’elles doivent, mais aussi qu’elles peuvent faire quelque chose pour faire face aux conditions de la migration forcée. En cela, leurs témoignages s’éloignaient des conceptions victimisantes et de celles qui réduisent leurs expériences à la précarité socioéconomique induites par la notion de vulnérabilité de sens commun. La reconnaissance de la polysémie de leurs expériences gagnerait à être mise au cœur des représentations académiques, médiatiques et politiques des femmes réfugiées, mais aussi du développement de pratiques de protection et d’accompagnement solidaires qui placent au centre le respect de leur humanité et de leur dignité pleines et entières.This Master’s thesis in Social Work focuses on the experiences of refugee women coming from Syria, who are holding the main financial and caring responsibility of supporting their family in Quebec/Canada and in Lebanon. Women who hold this responsibility in exile are often seen as being de facto vulnerable by organizations that are in charge of the global management of forced migration, although what women experience concretely in these situations remains unclear (Freedman, 2017). Despite being a corner stone of the refugee protection system, vulnerability doesn’t appear to be defined beyond common sense conceptions - to be susceptible to harm. A transnational feminist approach (Mohanty, 2003; Zeweri, 2017; McLaren, 2017) is at the core of the analysis of the “life story” interviews that were conducted with 12 women holding the main responsibility of supporting their family (5 in Quebec, 7 in Lebanon). More specifically, their testimonies were analyzed through the conceptual lens of ambivalent vulnerability (Oliviero, 2016) in order to document their experiences, as well as to reconsider the notion of vulnerability beyond its common sense assumptions. The women who participated in this research were undoubtedly facing various forms of violence and marginalization, but they also turned out to be exposed to a series of transformative opportunities and experiences inscribed in the continuity of their life trajectories (Oliviero, 2016; Grace, 2018; Zeweri, 2017). The impact of forced migration on family dynamics was at the core of their testimonies and was chosen as the main theme used to illustrate the wide spectrum of their experiences through a scientific article (to be submitted). They said they felt responsible to take action to support and to protect their family members and themselves, implying that they don’t only have to do so, but that they also feel like they can also do something to face the conditions of their life in exile. Their testimonies diverged from representations of their vulnerability, focusing mainly on victimization and socio-economic precarity. This research shows that the acknowledgment of the polysemic character of their realities should be put at the core of academic, humanitarian and political representations of refugee women’s experiences. It could thus inform the development of protection and support practices anchored in solidarity, as well as full respect of refugee women’s humanity and dignity.
Books on the topic "Women refugees – Syria"
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Benucci, Antonella, Giulia I. Grosso, and Viola Monaci. Linguistica Educativa e contesti migratori. Venice: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-570-4.
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The volume, produced within the framework of the COMMIT project “Fostering the Integration of Resettled Refugees in Croatia, Italy, Portugal and Spain”, concerns the current European situation, and in particular the teaching of L2 in its relations and interdisciplinary exchanges with other scientific fields dealing with migratory phenomena; therefore, starting from the COMMIT experience, it offers a wide perspective, going beyond the borders of the countries involved in the project and identifying good practices that can be replicated in different territorial and social contexts to ensure successful social inclusion of newly arrived citizens. COMMIT is a project funded by the European Commission (DG HOME), co-financed by the Ministry of Interior and the Project Partners and managed by the Mediterranean Coordination Office of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), in Italy. The project was implemented in collaboration with the IOM Missions in Croatia, Portugal and Spain, together with the Communitas Consortium, the Adecco Foundation for Equal Opportunities and the University for Foreigners of Siena (UNISTRASI). The project activities were implemented from 1 January 2019 to 30 April 2021. The project, based on the idea that successful integration of resettled refugees occurs both by putting in place certain structural conditions and by promoting mutual exchange between resettled refugees and their host communities, aimed to support their integration into their new communities, with a special focus on women and young refugees as particularly vulnerable groups. A secure humanitarian migration route to the European Union launched in 2013 is targeted at refugees who are beneficiaries of resettlement. Several Member States, including Croatia, Italy, Portugal and Spain, have therefore established or strengthened their national resettlement and humanitarian admission programmes for resettled refugees of Syrian, Eritrean, Ethiopian or Sudanese origin. In preparation for resettlement, beneficiaries participate in a series of pre-departure cultural orientation activities. Among them, training in L2 language and culture plays a crucial role. The book hence tries to offer answers to the many challenges that characterise the field of language education in contexts marked by the presence of migrants from an interdisciplinary perspective. It provides for effective solutions for an inclusive language education, attentive to ‘vulnerable’ subjects, paying attention to the interweaving of complex individual, social, cultural and economic contexts, such as school and university training courses and reception and resettlement programmes in host societies. In particular, the current situation in Italy, regarding both teaching L2 in a school context and teaching modern languages to adult foreigners, is still lacking in interdisciplinary relations and exchanges between language teaching and other scientific fields dealing with migratory phenomena. However, in recent years a particular sensitivity and empathy towards linguistic and cultural contact have developed.
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Jabiri, Afaf. Palestinian Refugee Women from Syria to Jordan. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9780755644834.
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Based on four years of field research in Palestinian camps in Jordan - including unique interviews with Palestinian refugee women, aid workers, and representatives of international organisations and NGOs in Jordan - the book reveals the extraordinary layers of discrimination suffered by Palestinian women from Syria displaced to Jordan. The women’s experiences show them caught between settler colonialism, militarism, nationalism, refugees’ global governance and gender regimes that subjected them to multiple forms of structural gender-based violence. The book argues for a feminist analysis of settler colonialism’s epistemic violence of anti-Palestinianism to expose the history and geopolitics of intersecting oppressive systems that work through and upon gendered bodies of Palestinian refugee women in humanitarian settings. The book also highlights how local women’s groups and frontline workers attempt to fill service gaps. Using a rich theoretical lens to understand the experiences of women in refugee camps, this book attempts to decolonise issues around migration, displacement, refugees and women. Previous work on the Syrian refugee crisis has overlooked the very particular experiences of Palestinian refugee women, which has weakened feminist analysis of gendered processes of humanitarianism, and feminist transnational and intersectional solidarity. This book offers a vital critique of how feminists’ adoption of a universality-based analysis of the Syrian refugee crisis has contributed to the further marginalisation of Palestinian refugee women from Syria.
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Syrian Women in Flight: Personal Accounts of Nine Refugees. McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2019.
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Spence, Kelly. Yusra Mardini: Refugee Hero and Olympic Swimmer. Crabtree Publishing Company, 2018.
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Freedman, Jane, Zeynep Kivilcim, and Nurcan Özgür Baklacıoğlu. Gendered Approach to the Syrian Refugee Crisis. Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
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Freedman, Jane, Zeynep Kivilcim, and Nurcan Özgür Baklacıoğlu. Gendered Approach to the Syrian Refugee Crisis. Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Find full textBook chapters on the topic "Women refugees – Syria"
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Subaşi, Selen. "Non-formal learning participation as leisure for Syrian refugee women in Turkey." In Women, leisure and tourism: self-actualization and empowerment through the production and consumption of experience, 92–103. Wallingford: CABI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789247985.0009.
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Abstract The Syrian civil war has caused thousands of deaths and the displacement of millions since 2011. Turkey currently serves as the new home to over 3.6 million refugees. Resettlement is particularly challenging for Syrian women. In addition to their patriarchal-assigned gender roles, women refugees encounter multidimensional difficulties. Unlike their male counterparts, they face overwhelming language barriers due to culturally imposed restrictions to their education in Turkey. Previous studies indicate women refugees have low levels of well-being and life satisfaction, as well as increased risk of depression. This chapter examines the types, practices, and benefits of leisure participation among Syrian refugee women in Turkey. Its findings reveal that throughout the resettlement process, leisure plays many roles, such as relieving trauma, increasing well-being and mental health, and supporting their integration into society and the labour market. Despite the abundance of learning opportunities, research on the outcomes of their participation is limited. Therefore, future studies should also focus on the effects of their participation in education to address the needs of Syrian women refugees. However, further research should be conducted on participation constraints to establish ways of encouraging refugee women's involvement in educational activities.
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Erdirençelebi, Meral, and Ebru Ertürk. "Refugee Women Entrepreneurship: A Qualitative Research on Syrian Women Refugee Entrepreneurs in Türkiye." In Refugee and Immigrant Entrepreneurship, 219–43. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20477-7_9.
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Alkhaled, Sophie. "The Resilience of a Syrian Woman and Her Family Through Refugee Entrepreneurship in Jordan." In Refugee Entrepreneurship, 241–53. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92534-9_17.
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Oztas, Miray Erinc. "Syrian Women, the labour market and entrepreneurship in Istanbul." In The Integration of Refugees in the Education and Labour Markets, 166–78. London: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003228967-14.
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Alves de Souza, Mirian. "Cleavage and Hijab Among Women from the Syrian Conflict in Brazil." In Embodied Violence and Agency in Refugee Regimes, 243–66. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/9783839458020-011.
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Yaman, Melda. "Child Marriage: A Survival Strategy for Syrian Refugee Families in Turkey?" In Women, Migration and Asylum in Turkey, 213–33. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28887-7_10.
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Usta, Jinan, and Amelia Reese Masterson. "Women and Health in Refugee Settings: The Case of Displaced Syrian Women in Lebanon." In Gender-Based Violence, 119–43. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16670-4_6.
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Jaramani, Araa Al, Sandra Ponzanesi, and Gerwin van Schie. ""Girls are like Glass": Situated Knowledges of Syrian Refugee Women on Datafication and Transparency." In Interrogating Datafication, 115–38. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript Verlag, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/9783839455616-005.
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Brown, Marvin T. "An Invitation to Civic Dialogue." In Library of Public Policy and Public Administration, 163–80. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77363-2_11.
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AbstractThose of us who have benefited from the climate of injustice need an invitation from others to join with them in changing our social climate to a climate of justice. The controversaries over national monuments opens the door to explore the question of who needs an invitation from whom and what white people need to learn in order to respond to the civilian invitation from others. The others include future generations, Syrian refugees, migrants at our Southern border, and personal invitations from People of Color. Personal invitations depend on our aptitude in engaging in dialogue, as is illustrated by an imaginary dialogue involving a white man and a black woman. Such dialogues can create the conditions for good conversations, and these conversation can move us toward a climate of justice—an ethical foundation for developing policies to protect our habitat for future generations.
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Sidhva, Dina Pervez. "Voices of Syrian Refugee Women in Jordan Living with Exacerbated Gender-Based Violence During COVID-19: Conceptualizing a Feminist Perspective for Social Work." In Rethinking Feminist Theories for Social Work Practice, 159–74. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94241-0_9.
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Guruge, Sepali, Sara Sadeghi, Hasina Amanzai, Souraya Sidani, and Ernest Leung. "ACCESS TO ONLINE HEALTH INFORMATION AND HEALTH EDUCATION FOR SYRIAN REFUGEE WOMEN IN TORONTO." In 13th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation. IATED, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2020.1602.
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Alkhatib, Ahed J., and Ala' Ahed AlKhatib. "A lived experience of Syrian woman refugee in Jordan: sorrows and hopes between past and future, a case study using the phenomenological approach." In DIALOGO-CONF 2019. Dialogo, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.18638/dialogo.2019.6.1.14.
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Oosterhoff, Pauline, and Raudah M. Yunus. The Effects of Social Assistance Interventions on Gender, Familial and Household Relations Among Refugees and Displaced Populations: A Review of the Literature on Interventions in Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), March 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/basic.2022.011.
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This literature review aims to explore the evidence on the effects of social assistance on gender, familial, and household relations and power dynamics among refugees and (internally) displaced populations in Syria, Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon. It examines the findings from an intersectional gender perspective allowing the authors to build on the knowledge of ‘what works’ in interventions in general and hopefully improve gender equality and social inclusion. Out of 1,564 papers initially identified and screened, 22 were included in the final stage. A question that emerged as the papers were analysed was whether the arduous work of targeting individuals was efficient or necessary, given that the available evidence suggests that beneficiaries generally tend to share their stipend with other family members for the collective good. Most studies tended to conflate gender with women and girls – making distinctions between widowed, married, unmarried and divorced women – but ignoring other dimensions such as class, health status, religion, ethnicity, education, prior work experience, political affiliation, and civil participation. Many programmes and research fail to disaggregate data. Social assistance programmes focus on individuals and households, with little attention to the wider context and overall conflict. Most studies paid negligible attention to familial infrastructures and strategies for sustainable interventions. Access to, and use of, cash transfers are part of broader familial strategies to mobilise or increase resources including, for example, (male) migration in pursuit of remittances, or (female) dependency on ‘community charity’. Short-term cash transfers can, in some circumstances, disrupt individuals’ and families’ access to more sustainable income or ‘charity’. Thus, important questions are raised about the purpose of social assistance: does it aim to preserve or transform families through targeting?
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Majed, Rima. Menstrual Hygiene Management Among Syrian Refugee Women in the Bekaa. Oxfam, June 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.21201/2020.5938.
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Almasri, Shaddin. Tailor Made: How Syrian refugee women are finding their own way to join the Jordanian economy. Oxfam, August 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.21201/2018.3149.
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Mourtada, Rima. Results from the Basmeh & Zeitooneh (B&Z) intervention to empower adolescent girls and young women at risk of child marriage and poor reproductive health among the Syrian refugee population in Lebanon. Population Council, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.31899/sbsr2023.1042.
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This report presents results from the final evaluation of a social, health, and economic asset-building program implemented by the Lebanon-based non-governmental organization (NGO) Basmeh & Zeitooneh (B&Z) and aimed at reducing the social isolation of vulnerable adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) aged 10–21 years old living in the Shatila and Burj al Barajneh refugee camps in South Beirut. The program sought to help girls gain the skills and knowledge they need to avoid child marriage and adolescent pregnancy and to make a healthy transition to adulthood despite the numerous challenges they face. The program focused on two sub-populations of girls at heightened risk of poor health and social outcomes: 10–15- year-old girls who are out of school and 13–21 year-old girls who are married. The report presents findings from the most recent iteration of this program, which took place in two phases—Round 2 between May and September 2022 and Round 3 between November 2022 and March 2023—and built upon a previous round of the program—Round 1—which was also conducted in partnership with Population Council (between May and September 2021).