Thematic Focus: Gender Issues

Blog posts & press:

"For Guatemalan Women Fleeing Gender-Based Violence, a Long Road to Asylum in US," KQED, 12 April 2022 [text]

"How a Supreme Court abortion ruling may harm refugee women," NY Daily News, 20 April 2022 [text]

Reports: 

Bangladesh: Protection implications of polygamous marriages in the Rohingya camps (ACAPS, April 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Violencia basada en género y mujeres en contextos de movilidad humana en Tapachula, México (HIAS & Save the Children, April 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

“We Don’t Walk in Separate Lines Anymore, We Walk Together”: Engaging Families to Build the Protective Assets of Adolescent Girls in Humanitarian Settings (Women's Refugee Commission, Mercy Corps & Washington Univ. at St. Louis, April 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

The women and children of Syria’s widow camps: Hardest to reach, most at risk (World Vision, April 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

"Assessment of the availability of sexual and reproductive healthcare for Venezuelan migrant women during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic at the north-western border of Brazil-Venezuela," Journal of Migration and Health, vol. 5 (2022) [open access]

"Curing What Ails U.S. (Asylum Law): Dismantling the Mythology of 'Private Violence' Undergirding Matter of A-B-," Willamette Journal of Social Justice & Equity, vol. 4, no. 2 (2021) [full-text]

- Focuses on the US.

"Diffusion of Soft Immigration Law: Evidence from Asylum Adjudication in the Wake of Matter of A-B-," Montana Law Review, vol. 83, no. 1 (2022) [full-text]

- Focuses on the US.

"The enduring consequences of conflict-related sexual violence: a qualitative study of women survivors in northern Uganda," Conflict and Health, 16:16 (April 2022) [open access]

"Forced migration and reproductive rights: Pregnant women fleeing Venezuela," ACDI: Anuario Colombiano de Derecho Internacional, no. 15 (2022) [open access]

"From Vulnerability to Empowerment: Critical Reflections on Canada’s Engagement with Refugee Policy," Laws, vol. 11, no. 2 (March 2022) [open access]

"International migrants' right to sexual and reproductive health care," International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, vol. 157, no. 1 (April 2022) [free full-text]

"'Most of the cases are very similar': Documenting and corroborating conflict-related sexual violence affecting Rohingya refugees," BMC Public Health, 22:700 (April 2022) [open access]

"Pervasive irregular migration and the vulnerabilities of irregular female migrants at Plumtree border post in Zimbabwe," Journal of Migration and Health, vol. 5 (2022) [open access]

"Sexual and Gender-Based Violence on Refugee Women’s Journeys," Interdisciplinary Journal of International Studies, vol. 12, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

"Sexual Privacy and Persecution," UCLA Law Review Discourse, vol. 70 (Forthcoming, 2022) [preprint]*

*"Violencia de género y migración: mujeres solicitantes de asilo y bajo protección internacional en México," UMH Sapientiae, vol. 2, no 1 (2021) [full-text]

Multimedia:

Refugee Women’s Inclusion in Peace Agreements and Peacebuilding in Africa, 14 April 2022 [access]

*UPDATED

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Gender Issues - Pt. 1 (7 April 2022)

- Thematic Focus: Gender Issues - Pt. 2 (7 April 2022)