Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues

Short pieces:

Mexico’s Judicial Reform: A Feminist Critique of its Risks for Rule of Law, Migration, and Human Rights (Wilson Center, Dec. 2024) [text]

UNHCR warns of devastating spike in risk of gender-based violence for women and girls forced to flee (UNHCR, Nov. 2024) [text]

Reports:

Mujeres refugiadas y migrantes de Venezuela en Perú: ¿quiénes son y qué barreras enfrentan para su integración socioeconómica? (ILO, Nov. 2024) [text]

Rights of Women and Girls in the Asylum Procedure: ECRE'S Analysis of the Main Challenges to Women and Girls' Access to a Fair Asylum Procedure and Implementation Considerations for the Asylum Procedures Regulation (ECRE, Dec. 2024) [text]

- See also info and concept note for related webinar.

Journal articles:

"Access and use of sexual and reproductive health services among asylum-seeking and refugee women in high-income countries: A scoping review," PLoS ONE 19(11): e0312746 (Nov. 2024) [open access]

DiGeSt: Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies, vol. 11, no. 2 (2024) [open access]

- Special issue on "Intersectional Solidarities and Resistances in Face of Violent Migration Regimes."

"Experiences and Concerns of Pregnant Refugee Women from Nigeria Seeking for Asylum in Germany: A qualitative analysis," Midwifery, vol. 141 (Feb. 2025) [open access]

"Gender Apartheid and Asylum: Establishing General Risks of Gender-Based Persecution in International Refugee Law," Politics & Gender, FirstView, 13 Dec. 2024 [free full-text]

- Focuses on Afghan women.

"Invisibilization of the unwanted Others? Feminist, queer, and postcolonial perspectives on the 1951 Refugee Convention’s drafting," Women's Studies International Forum, vol. 107 (Nov.-Dec. 2024) [open access]

"Resilience Against All Odds: How Refugee Women from Ukraine Find Courage Through Transnational Families," Global Networks, vol. 25, no. 1 (Jan. 2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Poland.

"Treading water in transit: understanding gendered stuckness and movement in Tunisia," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 50, no. 2 (2024) [open access]

"The Women of Al-Hol: Deservingness and the Politics of Vulnerability and Security," Nordic Journal of Migration Research, vol. 15, no. 2 (2025) [open access]

- Focuses on Finland.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues (22 Nov. 2024)