06 May 2021

Thematic Focus: Gender Issues

Reports:

Addressing the Sex and Gender-Based Violence in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador Fueling the U.S. Border Crisis Impunity, and Violence Against Women and Girls, Policy Brief, no. 2 (Univ. of Notre Dame, April 2020) [text]

A Crisis of Care: Sexual and Reproductive Health Competes for Attention Amid Conflict and Displacement in Mali (Refugees International, April 2021) [text]

The impact of COVID-19 on refugee and migrant women in Tunisia, MMC North Africa 4Mi Snapshot (Mixed Migration Centre, April 2021) [text]

Perspectives of Forcibly Displaced Syrian Women on their Conditions, Rights, and Demands (Women Now for Development, Jan. 2021; posted May 2021) [access via ReliefWeb]
- Follow link for position paper in English and Arabic, and video of the paper's launch in English and Arabic.

Sexual and gender-based violence: bibliographic resources (Humanitarian Alternatives, updated April 2021) [access]

Understanding Past Experiences to Strengthen Feminist Responses to Crises and Forced Displacement (Women's Refugee Commission, April 2021) [text]

Journal articles:

"Examining the Appropriateness of Gender-Inclusion as a Humanitarian Response Mechanism for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence against Men," Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, vol. 2, no. 3 (2020) [open access]

"English language learning barriers of Afghan refugee women in Australia," International Journal of Applied Linguistics, vol. 31, no. 1 (March 2021) [free full-text]

"Gender differences in second language proficiency: Evidence from recent humanitarian migrants in Germany," Journal of Refugee Studies, Advance Articles, 11 April 2021 [open access]

"'I Go up to the Edge of the Valley, and I Talk to God': Using Mixed Methods to Understand the Relationship between Gender-Based Violence and Mental Health among Lebanese and Syrian Refugee Women Engaged in Psychosocial Programming," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol.18, no. 9 (April 2021) [open access]

"Resettlement Stressors for Women of Refugee Background Resettled in Regional Australia," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol.18, no. 8 (April 2021) [open access]

"Sexual and reproductive health information and referrals for resettled refugee women: A survey of resettlement agencies in the United States," PLoS Medicine, 18(5): e1003579 (May 2021) [open access]

"Women and Children First," Cairo Review of Global Affairs, no. 41 (Spring 2021) [full-text]
- Focuses on the Global Compact for Migration.

"Young, unauthorised and Black: African unaccompanied minors and becoming an adult in Italy," Journal of Sociology, OnlineFirst, 2 March 2021 [postprint]
- Examines "the political ambivalence of hospitality for young African men as they transition to adulthood and how this is experienced through the intersections of age, gender and race."

Multimedia:

Gender Equality and Women's Rights in the Global Compact on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: Exploring Implementation in the Arab Region, 25 March 2021 [access]

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