Women in Dadaab: On the gendered insecurities in forced displacement
(2018) FKVK02 20181Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- War and violent conflict have always caused uprooting of families and
displacement within and across boarders in search of safer grounds. However,
human displacement and the security of refugees continue to be underprioritized
matters within practices and theories of international security. This study
investigates the insecurities of refugees from the subjugated position of women in
one of the world’s largest refugee camps and asks how we may understand the
continued failure to facilitate security for women in forced displacement. From a
feminist perspective and through a multilevel and multidimensional concept of
security I find interrelated factors of different types of violence harming women’s
bodies and scope of freedom and... (More) - War and violent conflict have always caused uprooting of families and
displacement within and across boarders in search of safer grounds. However,
human displacement and the security of refugees continue to be underprioritized
matters within practices and theories of international security. This study
investigates the insecurities of refugees from the subjugated position of women in
one of the world’s largest refugee camps and asks how we may understand the
continued failure to facilitate security for women in forced displacement. From a
feminist perspective and through a multilevel and multidimensional concept of
security I find interrelated factors of different types of violence harming women’s
bodies and scope of freedom and independency. Reaching through the spheres of
international and national, public and private, I identify underlying and related
factors connected to the inadequate facilitation of security, showing how
insufficient NGO funding, lack of local ownership, international discourse and
national security politics link directly to the many insecurities faced by women
fleeing war and disasters. (Less)
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@misc{8942354,
abstract = {{War and violent conflict have always caused uprooting of families and
displacement within and across boarders in search of safer grounds. However,
human displacement and the security of refugees continue to be underprioritized
matters within practices and theories of international security. This study
investigates the insecurities of refugees from the subjugated position of women in
one of the world’s largest refugee camps and asks how we may understand the
continued failure to facilitate security for women in forced displacement. From a
feminist perspective and through a multilevel and multidimensional concept of
security I find interrelated factors of different types of violence harming women’s
bodies and scope of freedom and independency. Reaching through the spheres of
international and national, public and private, I identify underlying and related
factors connected to the inadequate facilitation of security, showing how
insufficient NGO funding, lack of local ownership, international discourse and
national security politics link directly to the many insecurities faced by women
fleeing war and disasters.}},
author = {{Skou, Viktoria}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Women in Dadaab: On the gendered insecurities in forced displacement}},
year = {{2018}},
}