26 January 2021

Thematic Focus: Gender Issues

Opportunity:

CFP: Social Sciences [info]
- Contributions sought for a special issue on "Gender and Forced Displacement: New Perspectives on International Migration." Submission deadline is 31 March 2021.

Blog posts:

A Parting Shot at Women (Jeffrey S. Chase Blog, Jan. 2021) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

Resettling Refugee Survivors of Torture and Sexual Violence (WRM Council Blog, Dec. 2020) [text]
- Focuses on Canada.

Reports:

GBV Trends Among Rohingya Refugees in Cox’s Bazar: COVID-19 Update (International Rescue Committee, Jan. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Good Practice Guide for Refugee Women’s Football (Amnesty International & The Football Association, Jan. 2021) [access]
- Focuses on the UK.

Journal articles:

"The Fractured Colossus: An Evaluation of Gender-Based Asylum Claims for the 2020s," Washington & Lee Journal of Civil Rights & Social Justice, vol. 27, no. 1 (2020) [full-text]
- Focuses on the US.

"Gender-Based Violence in Palestinian Camps in Lebanon: Barriers to Access Support and Processes of Change," Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 9, no. 1 (Dec. 2020) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 31.

"'Like a Tree without Leaves': Syrian Refugee Women and the Shifting Meaning of Marriage," Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies, vol. 7, no. 1 (2020) [open access]
- Focuses on Syrian women in Egypt.

"The potential role of network-oriented interventions for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence among asylum seekers in Belgium," BMC Public Health, 21:25 (Jan. 2021) [open access]

"The Tortured Woman: Defying the Gendered Conventions of the Convention Against Torture," Human Rights Brief, vol. 27, no. 2 (Winter 2020) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 83.

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