30 March 2026

Thematic Focus: Gender-related Issues

Opportunity:

Seminar: International Refugee Law and the Global Compact: Where are the Women?, Online, 27 April 2026 [info]

Short pieces:

From Doubt to Denial: Reflections on International Women’s Day 2026 (RSC Blog, March 2026) [text]

How humanitarian aid agencies approach empowerment for refugee women (LSE Review of Books, March 2026) [text]

Sexual and reproductive healthcare: Are we failing newly-arrived refugee and asylum-seeking women? (Lens Blog, March 2026) [text]
- Focuses on Australia.

Reports:

"No One Came To My Rescue": Gang rape, sexual slavery, and mass displacement of women in Oromia, Ethiopia (Amnesty International, March 2026) [access]

Seeking Safety from War: Violence and rights abuses against women from Ukraine (EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, Feb. 2026) [access]

Journal articles:

"Double immobility: Syrian refugee women navigating the voluntary and forced marriage binary in Egypt," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 51, no. 9 (2025) [postprint]
- Note: The embargo period for accessing this article has now ended.

"Gender-related vulnerabilities: new challenges for the protection of migrants and asylum seekers," Freedom, Security & Justice: European Legal Studies, no. 1 (2026) [open access]
- Includes a focus section on "Vulnerabilità legate al genere: nuove sfide per la tutela di migranti e richiedenti asilo = Gender-related vulnerabilities: new challenges for the protection of migrants and asylum seekers"; the introduction is in English, while other contributed articles are in either English, Italian or Spanish.

"Refugee Camps as Contested Gendered Spaces: Afghan Women's Liminality, Inequality, and Agency in Germany," Population, Space and Place, vol. 32, no. 2 (March 2026) [open access]

"Social determinants of postpartum depression among refugees and internally displaced women in Lebanon: a cross-sectional study," Scientific Reports, 15 March 2026 [open access]

"Understanding barriers for refugees and migrants when accessing abortion care in Europe: a scoping review," BMC Public Health, 21 March 2026 [open access]

"Walking with Afghan women: using mobile methods to understand differentiated embedding within different places across England," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 4 March 2026 [open access]

Multimedia:

Legal Training and Workshop: Enhancing Asylum Claims on the basis of Gender-Based Violence, 4 Feb. 2026 [access]
- Focuses on East Africa.

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