1st Edition

A Gendered Approach to the Syrian Refugee Crisis

180 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

190 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

190 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The refugee crisis that began in 2015 has seen thousands of refugees attempting to reach Europe, principally from Syria. The dangers and difficulties of this journey have been highlighted in the media, as have the political disagreements within Europe over the way to deal with the problem. However, despite the increasing number of women making this journey, there has been little or no analysis of... Read more
  1. Introduction: Gender, Migration and Exile  Jane Freedman, Zeynep Kivilcim, Nurcan Ozgur Baklacıoğlu
  2. Destabilising Gender Dynamics: Syria Post 2011  Nour Abu-Assab
  3. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual (LGBT) Syrian Refugees in Turkey  Zeynep Kivilcim
  4. The Violence of Tolerated Temporarity: Syrian Women Refugees on the Outskirts of Istanbul  Nurcan Ozgur Baklacıoğlu
  5. "Trust no one, beware of everyone": Vulnerabilities of LGBTI refugees in Lebanon  Henri Myrttinen, Lana Khattab, Charbel Maydaa
  6. Gender, Social Class, and Exile: The case of Syrian women in Cairo  Maysa Ayoub
  7. Death at Sea: migration and the gendered dimensions of border insecurity  Sharon Pickering and Rebecca Powell
  8. Women’s experience of forced migration: gender-based forms of insecurity and the uses of "vulnerability"  Jane Freedman
  9. Gender Performativity in Diaspora: Syrian Refugee Women in the UK  Nof Nasser-Eddin
  10. Aggressor, Victim, Soldier, Dad: Intersecting Masculinities in the European ‘Refugee Crisis’  Jennifer Allsopp
  11. Conclusions

Biography

Jane Freedman is Professor at the Université Paris 8, and a member of the Centre de Recherches Sociologiques et Politiques de Paris (CRESPPA), France.

Zeynep Kivilcim is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Political Science, Istanbul University, Turkey.

Nurcan Ozgur Baklacıoğlu is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Political Science, Istanbul University, Turkey.