UNHCR’s Women at Risk Program is designed to identify and respond to refugee women at extreme risk in countries of asylum who are in desperate need of resettlement. Many women who have been resettled under this program have been raped or faced forced engagement in survival sex, forced marriage, pregnancy, and childbirth as a result of rape. Drawing on a decade of research undertaken by the authors across 18 international sites, this article explores the experience of refugee women at risk resettled to Australia. It discusses the impacts of sexual violence on their settlement, including those of shame and stigma. It identifies that, while for some women at risk, resettlement offers hoped for safety and protection, for others the abuses they ...
International audienceThe current refugee “crisis” in Europe has created multiple forms of vulnerabi...
Gender and sexual violence is historically used as a weapon of war. Yazidi women resettled in Canada...
The recent refugee crisis in Europe has become a prominent human security issues that continues to r...
UNHCR’s Women at Risk Program is designed to identify and respond to refugee women at extreme risk i...
This paper examines the intersectionality of race and gender in refugee situations, and the multiple...
This research explores issues facing 'female heads of households‘ in negotiating re-settlement in Pe...
Women of Refugee Background (WoRB) have been repeatedly identified as an extremelyvulnerable populat...
Resettling refugee women may be at greater risk than other women for several harmful reproductive he...
This monograph brings together five contributions from writers who are recognised for their expertis...
Objectives Refugee women entering resettlement countries on woman-at-risk visas represent a particul...
This case comment takes a critical Canadian look at gender-based refugee claims in light of the rece...
This paper explores the social construction of women refugees from the perspective of the human righ...
Using the latest refugee statistics available from the United Nations High Commissionerfor Refugees ...
This paper addresses human rights violations in the context of gender power relationships and calls ...
Using the lens of “integration criteria” developed by Ager and Strang, this article presents the fin...
International audienceThe current refugee “crisis” in Europe has created multiple forms of vulnerabi...
Gender and sexual violence is historically used as a weapon of war. Yazidi women resettled in Canada...
The recent refugee crisis in Europe has become a prominent human security issues that continues to r...
UNHCR’s Women at Risk Program is designed to identify and respond to refugee women at extreme risk i...
This paper examines the intersectionality of race and gender in refugee situations, and the multiple...
This research explores issues facing 'female heads of households‘ in negotiating re-settlement in Pe...
Women of Refugee Background (WoRB) have been repeatedly identified as an extremelyvulnerable populat...
Resettling refugee women may be at greater risk than other women for several harmful reproductive he...
This monograph brings together five contributions from writers who are recognised for their expertis...
Objectives Refugee women entering resettlement countries on woman-at-risk visas represent a particul...
This case comment takes a critical Canadian look at gender-based refugee claims in light of the rece...
This paper explores the social construction of women refugees from the perspective of the human righ...
Using the latest refugee statistics available from the United Nations High Commissionerfor Refugees ...
This paper addresses human rights violations in the context of gender power relationships and calls ...
Using the lens of “integration criteria” developed by Ager and Strang, this article presents the fin...
International audienceThe current refugee “crisis” in Europe has created multiple forms of vulnerabi...
Gender and sexual violence is historically used as a weapon of war. Yazidi women resettled in Canada...
The recent refugee crisis in Europe has become a prominent human security issues that continues to r...