Not born a refugee woman : contesting identities, rethinking practices /

Identity is constructed through a relational and contextual process informed by many factors - particularly gender. According to UNHCR, uprootedness caused by various forms of forced displacement affects about 37 to 40 million women and children in the world, posing major challenges to their identit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hajdukowski-Ahmed, Maroussia (Editor ), Khanlou, Nazilla (Editor ), Moussa, Helene, 1931- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, ©2008.
Colección:Studies in forced migration ; v. 24.
Temas:
Women refugees.
Identity (Psychology) > Social aspects.
Forced migration.
Réfugiées.
Identité (Psychologie) > Aspect social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Forced migration
Identity (Psychology) > Social aspects
Women refugees
Geschlechterrolle
Vertreibung
Weiblicher Flüchtling
Identität
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed, Nazilla Khanlou and Helene Moussa
  • Sect. I. Reconceptualizing Identities
  • 1. Dialogical Approach to Identity: Implications for Refugee Women / Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed
  • 2. Gender Relations of Home, Security, and Transversal Feminism: Refugee Women Reclaiming Their Identity / Wenona Giles
  • 3. Always "Natasha": The Transnational Sex Trafficking of Women / Victor Malarek and Sarah V. Wayland
  • 4. Reconstituting the Subject: Feminist Politics of Humanitarian Assistance / Jennifer Hyndman and Malathi de Alwis
  • Sect. II. Challenging Methodologies: Challenging the Researcher
  • 5. Befriending Refugee Women: Refracted Knowledge and Shifting Viewpoints / Adrienne Chambon
  • 6. "Days You Remember": Japanese Canadian Women and the Violence of Internment / Pamela Sugiman
  • 7. War, Diaspora, Learning, and Women 's Standpoint / Rachel Gorman and Shahrzad Mojab
  • 8. Being a Writer on Women, Violence, and War / Madeleine Gagnon
  • Sect. III. Rethinking Practices: Creating Spaces for Agency
  • 9. Representation of Refugee Women in our Research and Practice / Maryanne Loughry
  • 10. Refugee Youth, Gender, and Identity: On the Margins of Mental Health Promotion / Nazilla Khanlou and Sepali Guruge
  • 11. Pray God and Keep Walking: Religion, Gender, Identity, and Refugee Women / Elzbieta M. Gozdziak
  • 12. "We Want to Talk, They Give Us Pills ": Identity and Mental Health of Refugee Women from Sudan / Lynda Hayward, Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed, Jenny Ploeg and Karen Trollope-Kumar
  • Sect. IV. Reviewing Policies: Taking Responsibility for the Rights of Refugee Women
  • 13. Protecting Refugee Women: UNHCR and the Gender Equity Challenge / Judith Kumin
  • 14. Social Protection of Refugee Women: Paradoxes, Tensions, and Directions / Patricia M. Daenzer
  • 15. Gender Factor in Refugee Determination and the Effect of "Gender Guidelines" / Geraldine Sadoway
  • 16. Pursuing National Responsibility in a Post-9/11 World: Seeking Asylum in Canada from Gender Persecution / Carmela Murdocca and Sherene Razack.

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