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Refugee and asylum-seeking women's lived citizenship at the nexus of family violence and irregular migration.
- Source :
- Citizenship Studies; May2022, Vol. 26 Issue 3, p287-304, 18p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Asylum-seeking women's liminal citizenship in home countries is a contributing factor to their irregular migration. In this paper, we examine how conditions of gendered citizenship, specifically family violence, exert additional pressures on women to undertake irregular journeys. In examining the narratives of refugee and asylum-seeking women from Iran and Afghanistan, women spoke of multiple instances of family violence in home countries, in addition to the more traditionally understood factors of insecurity associated with irregular migration, such as conflict, torture and war. Using the concept of lived citizenship to examine women's experiences, we contribute to the nexus of knowledge on global mobility, gender and family violence. These findings are important to ensure women who seek asylum have supports and services tailored to them that address these issues within the broader family violence schema in affluent host nations, including within the Australian context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- POLITICAL refugees
CITIZENSHIP
DOMESTIC violence
REFUGEES
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13621025
- Volume :
- 26
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Citizenship Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 157354745
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2065665