
Gender, Conflict and Migration
Navnita Chadha Behera(Editor)
SAGE Publications Inc (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 5. April 2006
Book
Hardback
328 pages
978-0-7619-3454-7 (ISBN)
Description
Research on the subject of women's migration and conflict is generally organised along the twin axes of gender and conflict, and gender and migration. The reality of women's conflict-driven migration, however, falls between these two axes. The essays in this volume seek to fill this gap by examining the changes in status, identities and power relations among women and men as they move from a conflict situation at home, to migrant camps, to the post-conflict or peace-building phase when they return home. The contributors use a variety of research methods including ethnography, dialogue, oral history, textual analyses and consciousness-raising techniques.
Reviews / Votes
"The author uses a variety of feminist research methods, examines the ethical dilemmas faced by researchers, and addresses conceptual issues and policy implications in an interdisciplinary perspective these studies help readers better understand the dynamics of the conflict-induced migration of women, and the significance of gender and conflict in migration research and theory. An important contribution to migration and feminist studies. Highly recommended." -- D. A. Chekki The volume attempts to break the homogeneity of state discourses by bringing in women's experiences. The attempt is to study the uniqueness of women migrants and to highlight the particular conditions women are subjected to in conflict situations, the blurring of divisions of their private sphere as opposed to that of male migrants and the survival strategies adopted by them. Given the uneasy relationship between the state, citizenship and national honour on one hand and women migrant victims of conflict on the other, the contributors underline the need for national and regional gender asylum laws in view of the gendered nature of refugee laws. -- Refugee Survey Quarterly The essays in this book...[examine] the changes in status, identities and power relations among women and men as they move from a conflict situation at home, to migrant camps, to the post-conflict or peace-building phase when they return home. It will appeal to scholars of migration studies, gender studies, peace and conflict studies, sociology, human rights and political science and to social activists and policymakers involved in shaping refugee laws and managing humanitarian aid to refugees. -- The Hindustan TimesMore details
Series
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
468 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7619-3454-7 (9780761934547)
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Content
Series Introduction
Introduction - Navnita Chadha Behera
Muktir Gaan, the Raped Woman and Migrant Identities of the Bangladesh War - Nayanika Mookherjee
Speaking Violence - Furrukh A Khan
Pakistani Women's Narratives of Partition
Violence and Home - Saba Gul Khattak
Afghan Women's Experience of Displacement
Migration/Dislocation - Urvashi Butalia
A Gendered Perspective
Women after Partition - Anasua Basu Raychaudhury
Remembering the Lost World in a Life without Future
Between Tamil and Muslim - Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake
Women Mediating Multiple Identities in a New War
Contesting `Infantalization' of Forced Migrant Women - Rita Manchanda
Gender, Borders and Transversality - Mary O`Kane
The Emerging Women`s Movement in the Burma-Thailand Borderlands
Can the Women Flee? Gender-Based Persecution, Forced Migration and Asylum Law in South Asia - Oishik Sircar
Gender-Based Persecution - Anthony Good
The Case of South Asian Asylum Applicants in the United Kingdom
Index
Introduction - Navnita Chadha Behera
Muktir Gaan, the Raped Woman and Migrant Identities of the Bangladesh War - Nayanika Mookherjee
Speaking Violence - Furrukh A Khan
Pakistani Women's Narratives of Partition
Violence and Home - Saba Gul Khattak
Afghan Women's Experience of Displacement
Migration/Dislocation - Urvashi Butalia
A Gendered Perspective
Women after Partition - Anasua Basu Raychaudhury
Remembering the Lost World in a Life without Future
Between Tamil and Muslim - Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake
Women Mediating Multiple Identities in a New War
Contesting `Infantalization' of Forced Migrant Women - Rita Manchanda
Gender, Borders and Transversality - Mary O`Kane
The Emerging Women`s Movement in the Burma-Thailand Borderlands
Can the Women Flee? Gender-Based Persecution, Forced Migration and Asylum Law in South Asia - Oishik Sircar
Gender-Based Persecution - Anthony Good
The Case of South Asian Asylum Applicants in the United Kingdom
Index