Not Born a Refugee Woman : : Contesting Identities, Rethinking Practices /

Not Born a Refugee Woman : : Contesting Identities, Rethinking Practices / / ed. by Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed, Nazilla Khanlou, Helene Moussa.

Not Born a Refugee Woman is an in-depth inquiry into the identity construction of refugee women. It challenges and rethinks current identity concepts, policies, and practices in the context of a globalizing environment, and in the increasingly racialized post-September 11th context, from the perspec...

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MitwirkendeR:
Alwis, Malathi de,
Chambon, Adrienne,
Daenzer, Patricia M.,
Gagnon, Madeleine,
Giles, Wenona,
Gorman, Rachel,
Goździak, Elźbieta M.,
Guruge, Sepali,
Hajdukowski-Ahmed, Maroussia,
Hayward, Lynda,
Hyndman, Jennifer,
Khanlou, Nazilla,
Kumin, Judith,
Loughry, Maryanne,
Malarek, Victor,
Mojab, Shahrzad,
Murdocca, Carmela,
Ploeg, Jenny,
Sadoway, Geraldine,
Sugiman, Pamela,
Trollope-Kumar, Karen,
Wayland, Sarah V.,
HerausgeberIn:
Hajdukowski-Ahmed, Maroussia,
Khanlou, Nazilla,
Moussa, Helene,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Forced Migration ; 24
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables, Maps, and Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Section I Reconceptualizing Identities
  • 1 A Dialogical Approach to Identity IMPLICATIONS FOR REFUGEE WOMEN
  • 2 The Gender Relations of Home, Security, and Transversal Feminism REFUGEE WOMEN RECLAIMING THEIR IDENTITY
  • 3 Always “Natasha” THE TRANSNATIONAL SEX TRAFFICKING OF WOMEN
  • 4 Reconstituting the Subject FEMINIST POLITICS OF HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
  • Section II Challenging Methodologies Challenging the Researcher
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 5 Befriending Refugee Women REFRACTED KNOWLEDGE AND SHIFTING VIEWPOINTS
  • 6 “Days You Remember” JAPANESE CANADIAN WOMEN AND THE VIOLENCE OF INTERNMENT
  • 7 War, Diaspora, Learning, and Women’s Standpoint
  • 8 Being a Writer on Women, Violence, and War
  • Section III Rethinking Practices Creating Spaces for Agency
  • 9 The Representation of Refugee Women in Our Research and Practice
  • 10 Refugee Youth, Gender, and Identity ON THE MARGINS OF MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION
  • 11 Pray God and Keep Walking RELIGION, GENDER, IDENTITY, AND REFUGEE WOMEN
  • 12 “We Want to Talk, They Give Us Pills” IDENTITY AND MENTAL HEALTH OF REFUGEE WOMEN FROM SUDAN
  • Section IV Reviewing Policies TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE RIGHTS OF REFUGEE WOMEN
  • Introduction
  • 13 Protecting Refugee Women UNHCR AND THE GENDER EQUITY CHALLENGE
  • 14 Social Protection of Refugee Women PARADOXES, TENSIONS, AND DIRECTIONS
  • 15 The Gender Factor in Refugee Determination and the Effect of “Gender Guidelines”
  • 16 Pursuing National Responsibility in a Post–9/11 World SEEKING ASYLUM IN CANADA FROM GENDER PERSECUTION
  • Notes on Contributors
  • References
  • Index

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