Representations of refugee women as "poor," vulnerable," and "helpless" are often caricatures inattentive to the innovations and survival strategies they employ. Combined with the relatively few images and impressions of refugee women’s experiences available, women relief workers, and scholars have limited understanding of their worlds across time and space. This articles aims to 1) discuss the politics, power relations and problems of representing refugee women; 2) illustrate selected daily routines, concerns and income learning strategies of Somali refugee women in Kenya; and 3) argue that the “local capacity” or indigenous skills of this group have not been fully recognized. Astute humanitarian policy and practice should n...
The provision of international humanitarian aid, far from being a neutral intervention in the forced...
In humanitarian aid policy and practice, the importance of women’s participation is strongly emphasi...
Contributing to ongoing debates about what happens when feminism is institutionalized in global gove...
The end of the Cold War marks a period of human displacement greater in scale than any other this c...
This paper addresses human rights vio-lations in the context of gender power relationships and calls...
The global Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda has been established to address the widerange of i...
The risk of gender-based violence (GBV) is heightened during displacement and it remains a pervasive...
This paper addresses human rights violations in the context of gender power relationships and calls ...
Refugee populations worldwide increase every day as a result of social and political wars. Women and...
This article is based on interviews with twenty Somali refugee women living in London. The interview...
During displacement, women are more at risk and they face a number of challenges such as exposure to...
In the following article the case of the Somali Bantu refugees is analysed and ways inter-gender rel...
O presente trabalho pretende analisar criticamente as medidas protetivas a direitos das mulheres nos...
This paper studies the effects of displacement in the case of Congolese refugees in Rwanda, with an ...
Feminist scholarship contributes to our understanding of the day-to-day experiences of female refuge...
The provision of international humanitarian aid, far from being a neutral intervention in the forced...
In humanitarian aid policy and practice, the importance of women’s participation is strongly emphasi...
Contributing to ongoing debates about what happens when feminism is institutionalized in global gove...
The end of the Cold War marks a period of human displacement greater in scale than any other this c...
This paper addresses human rights vio-lations in the context of gender power relationships and calls...
The global Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda has been established to address the widerange of i...
The risk of gender-based violence (GBV) is heightened during displacement and it remains a pervasive...
This paper addresses human rights violations in the context of gender power relationships and calls ...
Refugee populations worldwide increase every day as a result of social and political wars. Women and...
This article is based on interviews with twenty Somali refugee women living in London. The interview...
During displacement, women are more at risk and they face a number of challenges such as exposure to...
In the following article the case of the Somali Bantu refugees is analysed and ways inter-gender rel...
O presente trabalho pretende analisar criticamente as medidas protetivas a direitos das mulheres nos...
This paper studies the effects of displacement in the case of Congolese refugees in Rwanda, with an ...
Feminist scholarship contributes to our understanding of the day-to-day experiences of female refuge...
The provision of international humanitarian aid, far from being a neutral intervention in the forced...
In humanitarian aid policy and practice, the importance of women’s participation is strongly emphasi...
Contributing to ongoing debates about what happens when feminism is institutionalized in global gove...